{"id":6125,"date":"2010-05-10T22:10:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T14:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=6125"},"modified":"2010-05-10T22:11:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T14:11:32","slug":"are-kings-godsent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/05\/are-kings-godsent\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Kings Godsent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/129.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6126\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/129.jpg?resize=84%2C115\" alt=\"\" width=\"84\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/129.jpg?w=84&amp;ssl=1 84w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/129.jpg?resize=70%2C96&amp;ssl=1 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 84px) 100vw, 84px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">From &#8216;Marvel 1602: New World&#8217; by Greg Pak and Greg Tocchinni:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">King James: <\/span>&#8216;I grant indeed that a wicked King is sent by God for a  curse to his people and a plague for their sins; but is it lawful for  them to shake off that curse, which God hath laid on them? That I deny.&#8217;  Do you have all that, David?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">David:<\/span> &#8216;Tis perfect as you have spoken it. For as to dispute what God  may do is blasphemy, &#8217;tis sedition to dispute what a King may do in the  height of his power.<\/p>\n<p>Ascribing unquestionable godly powers to unenlightened humans is foolish. As much as I didn&#8217;t understand the belief that kings and emperors are  godsent, after coming across the above, I understood why they would  want to keep up with the illusion to justify, maintain and expand their  tyrannical power. Even though an evil king is clearly no spokesperson  for anyone good and divine, that a people have a bad ruler is their  collective karma at play. This is not to say they should be political  apathetic though, because governments are to serve the people and they  should be overthrown when unreasonable. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Collective karma can transform  collective karma.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8216;Marvel 1602: New World&#8217; by Greg Pak and Greg Tocchinni: King James: &#8216;I grant indeed that a wicked King&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[244,139,112],"class_list":["post-6125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","tag-god","tag-karma","tag-power","wpcat-241-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}