{"id":5927,"date":"2019-09-30T04:11:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/a-soldiers-conscience\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:11:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:16","slug":"a-soldiers-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/a-soldiers-conscience\/","title":{"rendered":"A Soldier&#8217;s Conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of D-Day, Pvt. Tom Porcella was torturing himself with thoughts of killing other human beings.  (This was common: the chaplains worked overtime assuring soldiers that to kill for their country was not a sin).  \u201cKill or be killed,\u201d Porcella said to himself.  \u201cHere I am, brought up as a good Christian, obey this and do that.  The Ten Commandments say, \u2018Thou shalt not kill.\u2019  There is something wrong with the Ten Commandments, or there is something wrong with the rules of the world today.  They teach us the Ten Commandments and then they send us out to war.  It just doesn\u2019t make sense.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of D-Day, Pvt. Tom Porcella was torturing himself with thoughts of killing other human beings. (This was common: the chaplains worked overtime assuring soldiers that to kill for their country was not a sin). \u201cKill or be killed,\u201d Porcella said to himself. \u201cHere I am, brought up as a good Christian, obey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2516,3126,1351,650,442],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}