{"id":67905,"date":"2025-11-30T20:20:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=67905"},"modified":"2025-11-30T20:20:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:20:59","slug":"persecution-and-political-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/learn\/persecution-and-political-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"\u8feb\u5bb3\u3068\u653f\u6cbb\u7684\u95a2\u4e0e"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>By Dr. Greg Cochran, ICC Fellow Recently, The State of Theology Research Report, compiled by Ligonier Ministries, was released. \u00a0 In this latest study, most evangelical Christians (54%) agreed with the statement: Christians should not allow their religious beliefs to influence their political decisions. In one sense, this is not surprising because past studies have produced similar results. At least since John F. 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