{"id":1313,"date":"2017-08-25T10:30:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T10:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fraglen.com\/blog\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2017-09-22T05:41:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T05:41:08","slug":"a-red-robe-of-absurdity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fraglen.com\/?p=1313","title":{"rendered":"A Red Robe of Absurdity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fraglen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/power-Derinkuyu-Underground-City-Turkey-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1314\" src=\"http:\/\/fraglen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/power-Derinkuyu-Underground-City-Turkey-1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fraglen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/power-Derinkuyu-Underground-City-Turkey-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fraglen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/power-Derinkuyu-Underground-City-Turkey-1-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fraglen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/power-Derinkuyu-Underground-City-Turkey-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIf, as often seems to be the case, we have driven Jesus away, or at any rate back to the catacombs, then we are totally at the mercy of our rulers, whoever they may be and whatever the ideology on behalf of which they purport to govern.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fraglen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/power-10-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1315\" src=\"http:\/\/fraglen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/power-10-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fraglen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/power-10-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fraglen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/power-10-1-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fraglen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/power-10-1.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The only antidote to the poison from Caesar&#8217;s laurel crown comes from Jesus&#8217;s crown of thorns. He alone can deliver us from the monstrosities and buffooneries of power, as has been discovered by the most perceptive spirits of our time, such as Solzhenitsyn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fraglen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/power-pasqua_00006_corona_di_spine-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1316\" src=\"http:\/\/fraglen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/power-pasqua_00006_corona_di_spine-1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fraglen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/power-pasqua_00006_corona_di_spine-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fraglen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/power-pasqua_00006_corona_di_spine-1.jpg 591w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Faced with power at its most unbridled and most brutal, they turn for help and comfort, not to Universal Declarations of Human Rights and other pronouncements, solemn undertakings,Covenants and Charters in a similar vein, but to the man wearing a crown of thorns, decked out in a red robe of absurdity and with a court of jeering soldiers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fraglen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/power-11cropped800x572.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1394\" src=\"http:\/\/fraglen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/power-11cropped800x572-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"411\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There alone the sting of power is drawn and its pretentions are exploded, and the princes of this world have no recourse but, like Judas, to flee into the night.<br \/>\nMalcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fraglen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/power-untitled-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1317\" src=\"http:\/\/fraglen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/power-untitled-1-300x232.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fraglen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/power-untitled-1-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/fraglen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/power-untitled-1.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If, as often seems to be the case, we have driven Jesus away, or at any rate back to the catacombs, then we are totally at the mercy of our rulers, whoever they may be and whatever the ideology on behalf of which they purport to govern. &nbsp; &nbsp; The only antidote to the poison&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fraglen.com\/?p=1313\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[286,288,199,289,287],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-catacombs","tag-poison","tag-power","tag-princes","tag-solzhenitsyn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Red Robe of Absurdity &#8211; Fraglen Inkwell Diaries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Red Robe of Absurdity &#8211; Fraglen Inkwell Diaries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If, as often seems to be the case, we have driven Jesus away, or at any rate back to the catacombs, then we are totally at the mercy of our rulers, whoever they may be and whatever the ideology on behalf of which they purport to govern. &nbsp; &nbsp; The only antidote to the poison... 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