{"id":9888,"date":"2017-06-14T19:46:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T23:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/?p=9888"},"modified":"2017-06-14T19:46:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T23:46:40","slug":"prayers-instead-politicizing-human-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2017\/06\/prayers-instead-politicizing-human-tragedy.html","title":{"rendered":"Prayers instead of politicizing human tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/06\/14\/politics\/alexandria-virginia-shooting\/index.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Prayers for Congressman Steve Scalise. \u00a0Also lobbyist Matt Mika who, at this point, is in critical condition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What does this shooting tell us about liberal Democrats? \u00a0Not a damn thing, that\u2019s what. \u00a0It shows that evil and sin are apolitical. \u00a0Yes, we\u2019ve seen an uptick in leftist assaults, attacks, riots, destruction, threats, calls for assassinations and actual assaults and attempted killings. \u00a0That\u2019s what happens when people lose. \u00a0They go radical. \u00a0Hence why, following 2008, there were so many despicable things coming from the right.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s what happens. \u00a0And it\u2019s not just right or left. \u00a0But it is our culture. \u00a0Increasingly it\u2019s our society. \u00a0It\u2019s what\u00a0we\u2019ve come to. \u00a0For the same day\u00a0this was happening in Virginia,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/06\/14\/us\/san-francisco-shooting\/index.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">in San Francisco yet another person decided the best way to deal with problems was a mass killing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, there is something going wrong. \u00a0And it\u2019s not \u2018them.\u2019 \u00a0Perhaps the best example of the choices ahead of us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2017\/06\/prayers-rep-steve-scalise.html#comment-3361066073\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, where one person calls for an end to the hate and vitriol, and one commenter jumps in to yuck it up over the thought of those types\u00a0getting what they deserve for daring to disagree with our all important politics.<\/p>\n<p>I choose the Jerry principle.<\/p>\n<p>I pray for those who were injured. \u00a0I pray for those killed in San Francisco, their loved ones and friends and all they leave behind. \u00a0I pray for all who died violently today, whether we heard of them or not. \u00a0I\u2019m thankful for our leaders, who came together today and perhaps learned to think on what unites us more than what divides. \u00a0Yeah, they\u2019re playing the game tomorrow, and that\u2019s nice. \u00a0But let\u2019s face it, will there be any safer place in the world tomorrow than that baseball diamond? \u00a0Still, it\u2019s a good gesture. \u00a0Certainly I\u2019m proud of the security and capital police.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title='Speaker Ryan: \"An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.\" (C-SPAN)' width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SjNKdLE9EXY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi full statement on Alexandria Shooting (C-SPAN)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X4NZJTPYW0w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Someday, if we have the courage, we\u2019ll try to work out what\u2019s happening in our society, without the almost Pavlovian tendency of pointing fingers at those types over there. \u00a0A good look in the mirror might be a wise\u00a0place to start. \u00a0Then for us Christians, a reminder that the Gospel is the Gospel, not the latest political party platform. \u00a0Ours is a different calling than just taking the latest political talking points and putting a Jesus spin on it.<\/p>\n<p>Being peacemakers is part of the calling. \u00a0But that\u2019s also wrapped up in reality and honesty, not simply all the truth that fits the conclusion. \u00a0Being wise as well as innocent you might say.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayers for Congressman Steve Scalise. \u00a0Also lobbyist Matt Mika who, at this point, is in critical condition. What does this shooting tell us about liberal Democrats? \u00a0Not a damn thing, that\u2019s what. \u00a0It shows that evil and sin are apolitical. \u00a0Yes, we\u2019ve seen an uptick in leftist assaults, attacks, riots, destruction, threats, calls for assassinations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,10],"tags":[3,11],"class_list":["post-9888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-prayers","tag-current-events","tag-prayers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Prayers instead of politicizing human tragedy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Prayers for Congressman Steve Scalise. \u00a0Also lobbyist Matt Mika who, at this point, is in critical condition. 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