{"id":28397,"date":"2016-10-04T01:20:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T18:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/sex-money-politics-and-the-gospel-truth-letters\/"},"modified":"2016-10-04T01:29:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T18:29:05","slug":"sex-money-politics-and-the-gospel-truth-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/sex-money-politics-and-the-gospel-truth-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex, money, politics and the gospel truth | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nBible politics | Hungarian uprising | Massaged kale | Neville Marriner | Azaleas in OctoberGiles Fraser (Loose canon, 30 September) rightly criticises the lack of logic of rightwing Christians such as Donald Trump, who take biblical teachings on homosexuality literally while treating the Bible\u2019s critique of wealth as a metaphor. How so unlike leftwing Christians, who love to quote the Bible\u2019s view of wealth, while treating its repressive take on sex and sexuality as not to be obeyed literally. The consistently rational approach is, of course, not to take anything in the Bible seriously.Albert BealeLondon\u2022 I am old enough to remember the uprising of the Hungarian people against the communist state in 1956, when Soviet tanks rolled into the streets of Budapest to suppress the people. For those able to escape to the west, a warm welcome awaited them. Memories, it seems, are short (Report, 3 October).Chris McDonnellLittle Haywood, Staffordshire Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/oct\/03\/sex-money-politics-and-the-gospel-truth\" target=\"_blank\">Sex, money, politics and the gospel truth | Letters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Bible politics | Hungarian uprising | Massaged kale | Neville Marriner | Azaleas in OctoberGiles&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-7o1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":102391,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/where-it-takes-the-longest-to-sell-a-house-in-nz\/","url_meta":{"origin":28397,"position":0},"title":"Where it takes the longest to sell a house in NZ","date":"December 19, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r You'll need the patience of the Bible's Job and nerves of steel if you own a place here and are planning on selling.Woodend Beach at Waimakariri north of Christchurch has just been revealed as the place in New Zealand where it takes...\r \r Source : nzherald.co.nz\/Property\r Read more...Where it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":55751,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/shell-defeats-activist-uprising-as-it-faces-down-rising-climate-concerns\/","url_meta":{"origin":28397,"position":1},"title":"Shell defeats activist uprising as it faces down rising climate concerns","date":"May 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r \r \r Source : telegraph.co.uk\r Read more...Shell defeats activist uprising as it faces down rising climate concerns","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":75503,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-flat-erno-goldfinger-built-we-fell-in-love\/","url_meta":{"origin":28397,"position":2},"title":"The flat Ern\u00f6 Goldfinger built: \u2018We fell in love\u2019","date":"December 30, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r How a high-rise apartment in south London, built by the legendary Hungarian architect, has been stripped back to its rootsAt a busy roundabout in Elephant and Castle, south London is a small cluster of 1960s high-rises, built as offices by the legendary Hungarian architect Ern\u00f6 Goldfinger. 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