{"id":38209,"date":"2013-05-09T04:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T04:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/where_are_the_christians_on_burying_tsarnaev\/"},"modified":"2013-05-09T04:00:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T04:00:26","slug":"where_are_the_christians_on_burying_tsarnaev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38209","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Geoffrey MacDonald&#8211;Where are the Christians on burying Tsarnaev?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cemeteries and even some mosques have refused to take his body. His city, Cambridge, has urged family members to bury him elsewhere. Republican U.S. Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez and local talk radio host Dan Rae want him dumped in the ocean, like Osama bin Laden. Clergy have largely kept mum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only signs of people who are showing some sort of moral conscience are those few who stand with a card near the funeral home saying (burial) is a corporal work of mercy,\u201d\u009d said James Keenan, a moral theologian at Boston College. \u201cTo say, \u201d\u02dcwe won\u2019t bury him\u2019 makes us barbaric. It takes away mercy, the trademark of Christians. \u201d\u00a6 I\u2019m talking about this because somebody should.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2013\/05\/08\/analysis-where-are-the-christians-on-burying-tsarnaev\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cemeteries and even some mosques have refused to take his body. His city, Cambridge, has urged family members to bury him elsewhere. Republican U.S. Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez and local talk radio host Dan Rae want him dumped in the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38209\">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":[48,39,40,42,175,438,178,161,426,155,184,148,34,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-death-burial-funerals","category-eschatology","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38209","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=38209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}