{"id":6228,"date":"2021-03-19T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6228"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:02","slug":"villains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6228","title":{"rendered":"VILLAINS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Allow me a short tangent on what I wrote yesterday regarding what Jesus refers to as &#8220;an evil person&#8221; in Matthew 5:39.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is important to keep in mind that you and I have met very few truly evil people in our lifetimes. And even those who may legitimately be labeled as &#8220;evil&#8221; are not at all likely to &#8220;own&#8221; that label themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0Dr. Evil is an outlier:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgbcRtkaWeLfz1gZfjhyphenhyphendm1BLHn2wDdng9XEKal7GlQjvmZ3cpN2LVYtzqVp-G0dccOC5tItDVKF0QIGgEWYlsNRbotlrfvZv4pO0qwHt_WfaH8DXogbVfrfnfspWSyK_hxpF-Uu8Hii80\/w640-h640\/20%252B+Viral+Photos+You+Need+to+Pin+to+Every+Board+For+No+Reason+Whatsoever+_+8+Bit+Nerds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Allow me a short tangent on what I wrote yesterday regarding what Jesus refers to as &#8220;an evil person&#8221; in Matthew 5:39.\u00a0 It is important to keep in mind that you and I have met very few truly evil people in our lifetimes. And even those who may legitimately be labeled as &#8220;evil&#8221; are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6230,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6228\/revisions\/6230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}