{"id":976,"date":"2007-06-11T08:54:56","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T08:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godspolitics\/2007\/06\/voice-of-the-day-rigoberta-men.html"},"modified":"2007-06-11T08:54:56","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T08:54:56","slug":"voice-of-the-day-rigoberta-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2007\/06\/voice-of-the-day-rigoberta-men.html","title":{"rendered":"Voice of the Day: Rigoberta Menchu"},"content":{"rendered":"

[F]or us the Bible is our main weapon. It has shown us the way. Perhaps those who call themselves Christians but who are really only Christians in theory, won\u2019t understand why we give the Bible the meaning we do. But that\u2019s because they haven\u2019t lived as we have…. I can assure you that any one of my community, even though he\u2019s illiterate and has to have it read to him and translated into his language, can learn many lessons from it, because he has no difficulty understanding what reality is and what the difference is between the paradise up above, in Heaven, and the reality of our people here on Earth.<\/p>\n

\n-Rigoberta Menchu
\nexcerpt from I, Rigoberta: An Indian Woman in Guatemala.<\/i>
\n

+ Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail<\/A> <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[F]or us the Bible is our main weapon. It has shown us the way. Perhaps those who call themselves Christians but who are really only Christians in theory, won\u2019t understand why we give the Bible the meaning we do. But that\u2019s because they haven\u2019t lived as we have…. I can assure you that any one…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nVoice of the Day: Rigoberta Menchu - God's Politics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2007\/06\/voice-of-the-day-rigoberta-men.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Voice of the Day: Rigoberta Menchu - God's Politics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[F]or us the Bible is our main weapon. It has shown us the way. Perhaps those who call themselves Christians but who are really only Christians in theory, won\u2019t understand why we give the Bible the meaning we do. But that\u2019s because they haven\u2019t lived as we have…. I can assure you that any one…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2007\/06\/voice-of-the-day-rigoberta-men.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"God's Politics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-06-11T08:54:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"gp_editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Voice of the Day: Rigoberta Menchu - God's Politics","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2007\/06\/voice-of-the-day-rigoberta-men.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Voice of the Day: Rigoberta Menchu - God's Politics","og_description":"[F]or us the Bible is our main weapon. It has shown us the way. Perhaps those who call themselves Christians but who are really only Christians in theory, won\u2019t understand why we give the Bible the meaning we do. But that\u2019s because they haven\u2019t lived as we have…. I can assure you that any one…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2007\/06\/voice-of-the-day-rigoberta-men.html","og_site_name":"God's Politics","article_published_time":"2007-06-11T08:54:56+00:00","author":"gp_editor","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2007\/06\/voice-of-the-day-rigoberta-men.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2007\/06\/voice-of-the-day-rigoberta-men.html","name":"Voice of the Day: Rigoberta Menchu - God's Politics","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/#website"},"datePublished":"2007-06-11T08:54:56+00:00","dateModified":"2007-06-11T08:54:56+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/#\/schema\/person\/f481faae3483af034a212612ca158dd2"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2007\/06\/voice-of-the-day-rigoberta-men.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2007\/06\/voice-of-the-day-rigoberta-men.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2007\/06\/voice-of-the-day-rigoberta-men.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Voice of the Day: Rigoberta Menchu"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/","name":"God's Politics","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/#\/schema\/person\/f481faae3483af034a212612ca158dd2","name":"gp_editor","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"gp_editor"},"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/author\/gp_editor"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}