Reuters pointing out<\/a> what anyone not living under rocks has always known, that church groups are among the first to mobilize in any disaster situation.\u00a0 Here they are doing their church thing, as everyone knew they would, for those victims of the tornado ravaged South.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure if this is classic \u2018everyone is in a zoo to the press\u2019 stuff, where the reporter is genuinely shocked to see a stereotype broken by reality.\u00a0\u00a0 Or if the reporter is well aware of the inherent goodness that exists in religion and is using this lull in a week of super-stories to point out the obvious flaws in history\u2019s latest, hippest bigotry.\u00a0 After all, the modern secular notion of religion, especially of the institutional kind, is just the latest manifestation of the ages old propaganda telling willing hearers that such and such people group is mostly stupid, mostly evil, and the reason there is suffering in the world, and needs eradicated for peace to reign.\u00a0 Perhaps the good reporter Verna Gates just took this time to derail that little commonly presented spin before something really bad happens as a result.\u00a0 Who knows?\u00a0 But it is nice to see what everyone knows.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actually, just Reuters pointing out what anyone not living under rocks has always known, that church groups are among the first to mobilize in any disaster situation.\u00a0 Here they are doing their church thing, as everyone knew they would, for those victims of the tornado ravaged South.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure if this is classic \u2018everyone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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