{"id":19806,"date":"2017-10-02T16:24:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T20:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/?p=19806"},"modified":"2017-10-04T08:16:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T12:16:14","slug":"prayer-isnt-stopping-the-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/prayer-isnt-stopping-the-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer isn’t stopping the violence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"JesusAn acerbic piece in Maclean\u2019s Magazine from June<\/a> had the title \u201cAmerica\u2019s mass delusion.\u201d<\/b> The subtitle read, \u201cSurprisingly, the strategy of praying to God is not stopping the mass shootings in the U.S.\u201d That piece was recirculated when the news of the latest and largest mass shooting in the USA broke. Fifty nine (so far) people were killed and more than 500 wounded by one homegrown American terrorist with an assault rifle. A terrorist who, police found later, had more than 20 rifles in his hotel room (some reports say “more than 10”). He owned more than 40; 10 of them reportedly assault weapons – a weapon designed solely for mass killing of people.<\/p>\n

Prayer didn’t stop him getting into a hotel with all those rifles. Prayer didn’t stop him owning and firing military-grade automatic weapons into the crowd. (And why aren\u2019t the media telling us his religion, when they gleefully announce the religion of every non-Christian who so much as farts in a subway?)<\/p>\n

Despite the flurry of “prayers and thoughts” for the victims that erupted when the news of the massacre broke, not a single one of those shot came back from the dead. Even the prayers of that uber-fundamentalist, VP Mike Pence, failed to move his deity to act on anyone\u2019s behalf and you\u2019d think he had pull with his god. So who are they praying to, if no one is listening?<\/p>\n

Curiously, no one seems to be praying to have the NRA held accountable for its pro-gun lobbying that led directly to this and every other mass shooting in the USA. No one seems to be praying for stronger gun control legislation, for background checks or to ban assault rifles. Americans are too obsessed with their guns to pray for anything that resembles sanity about gun ownership.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, an NRA-backed bill to permit silencers<\/a> on personal weapons is being presented. The conscienceless-GOP is pushing ahead with it despite the news of this latest shooting – feckless minions of their NRA masters. Is anyone praying that won\u2019t pass? Why isn\u2019t anyone praying the GOP will disappear so the country can find some peace?<\/p>\n

Or Bill O’Reilly? The neo-fascist former Fox host<\/a> apparently claimed that the shooting in Las Vegas is “…the price of freedom” for America’s sociopathic lack of gun control laws. Such an NRA shill should not go unprayed for… pray he vanishes, just like the NRA does.<\/p>\n


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