{"id":17938,"date":"2010-02-15T23:01:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T23:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/melanie_mcdonagh-gerry_adams_and_jesus_cause_a_stir\/"},"modified":"2010-02-15T23:01:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T23:01:31","slug":"melanie_mcdonagh-gerry_adams_and_jesus_cause_a_stir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17938","title":{"rendered":"Melanie McDonagh&#8211;Gerry Adams and Jesus cause a stir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gerry Adams&#8217;s appearance on Channel 4, in a programme following the footsteps of Jesus in the Holy Land, won&#8217;t be screened for a week but it&#8217;s already caused a stir. Victor Barker, who lost his son in the Omagh bombing, is aggrieved, on the grounds that it makes the Sinn Fein leader seem like a &#8220;genuine, peaceful person&#8221;. That&#8217;s understandable. Yet there will be lots more people with no connection to the Troubles who simply don&#8217;t like the idea of someone with IRA connections talking about Christ at all.<\/p>\n<p>You have to wonder whether they&#8217;ve ever come across that remark by the Man Himself, to the effect that he came for sinners, not the righteous.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/northernireland\/7240591\/Gerry-Adams-and-Jesus-cause-a-stir.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerry Adams&#8217;s appearance on Channel 4, in a programme following the footsteps of Jesus in the Holy Land, won&#8217;t be screened for a week but it&#8217;s already caused a stir. Victor Barker, who lost his son in the Omagh bombing,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17938\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,162,199,325,93,108,164,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-christology","category-england-uk","category-ireland","category-movies-television","category-religion-culture","category-soteriology","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}