{"id":52491,"date":"2015-12-03T19:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T19:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/atlantic_prayer_shaming_after_a_mass_shooting_in_san_bernardino\/"},"modified":"2015-12-03T19:00:14","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T19:00:14","slug":"atlantic_prayer_shaming_after_a_mass_shooting_in_san_bernardino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52491","title":{"rendered":"(Atlantic) Prayer Shaming After a Mass Shooting in San Bernardino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many assumptions packed into these attacks on prayer: that all religious people, and specifically Christians, are gun supporters, and vice versa. That people who care about gun control can\u2019t be religious, and if they are, they should keep quiet in the aftermath of yet another heart-wrenching act of violence. At one time in American history, liberals and conservatives shared a language of God, but that\u2019s clearly no longer the case; any invocation of faith is taken as implicit advocacy of right-wing political beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>The most powerful evidence against this backlash toward prayer comes not from the Twitterverse, but from San Bernardino. \u201cPray for us,\u201d\u009d a woman texted her father from inside the Inland Regional Center, while she and her colleagues hid from the gunfire. Outside the building, evacuated workers bowed their heads and held hands. They prayed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2015\/12\/prayer-gun-control-mass-shooting-san-bernardino\/418563\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many assumptions packed into these attacks on prayer: that all religious people, and specifically Christians, are gun supporters, and vice versa. That people who care about gun control can\u2019t be religious, and if they are, they should keep<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52491\">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":[48,39,40,50,42,209,168,161,155,177,151,108,424,188,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-inter-faith-relations","category-other-faiths","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-secularism","category-spiritualityprayer","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52491","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=52491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}