Leftists embarassed themselves yesterday when, thirty seconds after it was announced there was a shooting, started looking for ways to politicize it. But the worst thing they did? Prayer-shaming. They mocked people for prayer. As if all of you who took a moment to ask for God to intervene and protect people? Liberals think you’re part of the problem. They’re waging war against you for it.
Because apparently, when you don’t have facts, the proper response is to build a bitter narrative…
Your "thoughts" should be about steps to take to stop this carnage. Your "prayers" should be for forgiveness if you do nothing – again.
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 2, 2015
If only there were something politicians could offer, other than thoughts and prayers, to stop gun violence. https://t.co/Ga9qkBgLkE
— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) December 2, 2015
Other countries must have fewer mass shootings because their conservative politicians offer thoughts and prayers more vigorously.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) December 2, 2015
An early look at tomorrow’s front page… GOD ISN’T FIXING THIS: https://t.co/eKUg5f03ec pic.twitter.com/j4gEFg9YtJ
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) December 3, 2015
And in possibly the douchiest tweet ever in the history of the internet…
Thanks for tweeting, following, & watching today as we shamed NRA bought lawmakers for #thoughtsandprayers. Together, we can make this stop.
— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) December 3, 2015
Now, leftists making idiotic statements about prayer isn’t new. These are the same people who blame terrorism on climate change (like Bernie Sanders). What makes this stand out is how everyone started tweeting the same thing all at once, which means this was coordinated messaging. Someone somewhere got paid a lot of money to devise a plan to mock people for praying…to God. No one would’ve said or tweeted a word had the prayers been to Allah or Mother Earth. Which means someone came up with the idea in the first place and lay in wait to implement it at first opportunity.
As The Atlantic points out, good luck with that hoss…
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’t 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’s clearly no longer the case; any invocation of faith is taken as implicit advocacy of right-wing political beliefs.
The most powerful evidence against this backlash toward prayer comes not from the Twitterverse, but from San Bernardino. “Pray for us,” 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.
Of course the problem with people praying is the suggestion there is a higher power. That’s a problem when you believe in the all powerful nature of government. Praying for God’s intervention here on climate change earth, where liberals think humans in government are divine, needs to be squashed.
But seriously, we all think this is a brilliant idea to wage war against prayer and highly encourage Democrats to run on this in 2016. We’ll put it right up there with denying God three times at your convention, and trying to eliminate the second amendment. Please, try it. We beg of you. Conduct a war on prayer. You’re going to lose and you’re going to lose hard. Not that it’ll stop you. God, morality, right and wrong… it’s liberal kryptonite.
Pray on it.
~Written by Courtney Kirchoff
This is what I don’t get about liberal Christians. If your Christian belief has any type of importance to you, I don’t get how you stand in rank with folks who are making it increasingly clear they are averse to even completely unobtrusive aspects of your faith.
The basic problem is that one cannot be both a Liberal and a Christian; for one is the antithesis of the other. The Liberal believes that by correcting society that you will make a perfect man(well, at least by their definition[John Wayne need not apply]); whereas, the Christian is commanded to correct the man then his society will benefit from his Godly actions.
Praying doesn’t help? Well neither does killing in the name of Allah…
“Dear children! Today I am calling all of you: pray for my intentions. Peace is in danger, therefore, little children, pray and be carriers of peace and hope in this restless world where satan is attacking and tempting in every way. Little children, be firm in prayer and courageous in faith. I am with you and intercede before my Son Jesus for all of you. Thank you for having responded to my call.” – the message of Nov. 25, 2015 from the Blessed Virgin through Marija Pavlovic-Lunetti at Medjugorje. I know that many are Christians but they do not hold any importance in the Mother of God past that she gave birth to Him. Not just any woman could be the handmaid of the Lord. The Blessed Virgin was conceived solely to be the womb through which all man kind would be saved. Her obedience placed her in perfection with God’s will. Only she could entreat her perfect Son before it was His time and He obeyed her (The Wedding at Cana). She did not suffer death but was assumed into Heaven by the power of her Son, Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. On the cross Christ gave her to the world as its mother. She is our heavenly mother and she ordained by God will crush the serpent’s head (“I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel” [Gen. 3:13-15]). Of course it would be Mary, in her perfection. Her seed being Jesus and His beloved Church. She desires to bring people close to her divine Son, Jesus. To help us to love her merciful Son Jesus and to encourage the world to embrace her sacred Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, King and Savior. She IS the ark of the new covenant, Jesus Christ. Pray the rosary, reflect on her humility and on the miracles the Lord gave the world through Christ and His mother. How can you possibly think ignoring Christ’s mommy you bring yourself closer to Him. She was pure of soul and body and He was devoted to her which is why She was always with Him. Pray the Rosary to end this evil because the Rosary is the most effective weapon we believers in Christ have. She appeared in Lordes her message to pray for peace was ignored and suffering followed. She appeared in Fatima before WW1 again her message to pray for peace was ignored and the world was plunged into darkness. She has been appearing at Medjugorje since the 1980s. Will we continue to make the mistakes of those who proceeded us and NOT pray the Rosary for the salvation of the world? Pray, reflect on the mysteries of Christ, and offer reparations. Only then can we defeat the evil that is attacking the world. Honor the mother of God and do as she asks. PRAY TO HER SON! Pray the Rosary, mimic Christ and Mary’s obedience, humility and above all deep love for the Father. Be as a child in your devotion to the Heavenly Father, Savior and Holy Spirit. Do not belittle the importance of the handmaid of the Holy Spirit. Christ did not exist in a vacuum because He wanted the world to know He became man. Becoming human meant having a mother. THAT is why motherhood is so sacred therefore so attacked. There is NO greater role model for a woman then that of the Blessed Virgin Mary. I say again, you gain no favor with the Lord when you belittle the importance of His mom. Would you be pleased with someone who did that to your’s? Honor her as God and all the heavenly host do. Pray, pray, pray, it works. And if this comment has moved even one person to sit in devotion to God and pray the rosary, then His will be done.God bless America, let freedom ring.
God doesn’t exist. All this article is saying is get off your ass and do something.
Christians did more than most. The Loma Linda University Medical Center is run and staffed by Christians and is the place where all the injured victims of the shooting went for treatment. So Christians didn’t only pray, they saved people who were on the verge of death. It is dishonest or ignorant to claim otherwise.
Yes, offering prayers for comfort for the loved ones of shooting victims, as an immediate human response, is far more opportunistic and shameful than immediately politicizing the incident.
What are you doing, Wally? Enlighten us, please.
What part are you doing to help, Wally? What was your profound immediate response to the shootings? Do enlighten us, please! Put us all to shame.
What the people who attacked Christians failed to notice is that the Loma Linda University Medical Center, the first to take in the injured victims, is run by Christians. Thank God that he had his people nearby to save those people. Especially the critically injured who may not have made it without them. To say that prayer is useless or that Christians didn’t do anything but pray is wrong. They did more than any of these people who are only complaining.
Christians always think they’re under attack, yet they’re the ones telling women they can’t have abortions, telling gays they can’t get marries, and consider praying to be helpful to anyone.
Okay.