{"id":37760,"date":"2016-06-28T14:44:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T12:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/site\/?p=37760"},"modified":"2016-11-01T11:48:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T09:48:44","slug":"%d9%85%d9%82%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%86%d8%a8%d8%a7-%d8%a5%d8%b1%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%a7-%d8%b9%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%a9-131-%d9%81%d9%82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/%d9%85%d9%82%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%86%d8%a8%d8%a7-%d8%a5%d8%b1%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%a7-%d8%b9%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%a9-131-%d9%81%d9%82\/","title":{"rendered":"On life (131) \u2013 \u201dLoss of Principles\u201d \u2013 27\/6\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0That day, his eyes were full of tears. Yet, he tried to hide them lest anybody see them. He moaned, \u201cI expected betrayal some day in my life; but it never crossed my mind that my dearest friend will betray me.\u201d This he said, then turned his face away and drowned in his memories which were, once, his only treasure.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0Cheating and betrayal are part of humanity\u2019s diction. People try, by all means, to evade whatever reminds them of these painful words. To betray a friend means that you give him up. To betray your vow is to break it. To betray your country is to relinquish it to enemies. Hence, betrayal and treachery are antonymous to honesty and loyalty.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0Betrayal contravenes with what religions have decreed and humanity has set as tradition. It is said that friendship is a boat that is stirred by honesty, yet is drowned by betrayal. It is true that human relations might not endure for one reason or another. Yet, if betrayal intervenes with human relations, they are sure to be destroyed. In turn, safety and confidence will be shaken and the world will become a maze that leads man to the middle of nowhere.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0Man might betray his friends by giving them up, or by wasting money or souls that are kept under his custody. Likewise, misusing someone\u2019s confidence is betrayal. It is the worst of all, for it transforms people\u2019s simplicity and tenderness into harshness.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0Man might also betray himself when he abandons his values and principles. To abandon honesty at hard times is a terrible mistake, as this leads man to disrespecting himself. Principles, on the other hand, never forsake you, even if humans do. Neither will God, for He commands you to cling to truth, honesty, sincerity, love, mercy and all other principles.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0There is also betraying one\u2019s country. This is \u201chigh treason\u201d. All countries agreed this is the worst kind of betrayal. Thus, its perpetrators are sentenced to death. Wars and destruction are also a kind of betrayal to humanity and man\u2019s role in making life, not destroying it. It is all about life, and on life\u2026 we shall continue.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #800000;\">General Bishop<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #800000;\">Head of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0That day, his eyes were full of tears. Yet, he tried to hide them lest anybody see them. He moaned, \u201cI expected betrayal some day in my life; but it never crossed my mind that my dearest friend will betray me.\u201d This he said, then turned his face away and drowned in his memories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[6839,6804,6385,240,170,1007,5640],"class_list":["post-37760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-loss-of-principles","tag-on-life","tag-youm7","tag---2","tag-170","tag-1007","tag-5640"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40238,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37760\/revisions\/40238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}