The Daily News took what might be considered the liberal side of the topic, going after Republican candidates for president for their willingness to send thoughts and prayers out on Twitter but not take any legislative action on gun control.
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“Never thought I’d say this, but well said #NYDaily News”, wrote a Twitter follower named Weijia.
I think this is something that might be hard for secular people to comprehend: Religious people don’t see prayer as an alternative to action.
And now it seems out that the massacre wasn’t the work of a some NRA-addled gun nuts, but an apparently carefully planned act of jihadi terrorism, with more possible conspirators involved in the conspiracy.
“The fact is that most of my Republican colleagues last night and today are offering their sympathies and their thoughts and their prayers, and I know the people of San Bernardino appreciate that, but they’re not offering much else”, Murphy said on MSNBC’s “Live with Jose Diaz-Balart” on Thursday.
A plan for gun reform was put forth by President Barack Obama after that tragedy, but failed to pass Congress. Look up Einstein’s definition of “insanity”. Innocent people are dying everyday from gun violence, and prayer does not appear to be changing things on the surface.
Or on people who, for the sake of the nonreligious, offer their sympathetic thoughts-because dead people deserve to be remembered and usually leave grieving survivors behind. But that does not mean that prayer is not important. Outside, as rescue workers attempted to eliminate the threat and free those hiding, the workers joined their hands together and they prayed.
“We have to have a larger conversation about our gun laws in this county”, said Carson.
By noon Thursday, The News’ cover had been viewed more than 11 million times on the paper’s Facebook page – not including the countless number of viewers who saw it through the almost 74,000 people who shared it. When politicians and the public are “inherently suspicious of each other’s motives, [that] blocks avenues for any type of accommodation towards a middle ground”, adds Rothermel.
Two months and one day later, an even deadlier mass shooting unfolded in Southern California, prompting Sen. Prayer and political action have a deeply entwined history in America.
The charge of “prayer shaming” is that people mocking the by-now rote tweets about prayers are saying “don’t pray”.
They are all supporters of guns rights.
FIRST it shocked the United States with it’s controversial front page on the San Bernardino shooting, now this newspaper has gone one further by calling out who it thinks is to blame.
“This divide is much greater than the simplistic NRA v. Obama/Bloomberg rhetoric”.
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The insufficiency for governmental, educational, psychological and other solutions to truly fix the problem of human violence points to the necessity and propriety of prayer in the face of murderous evil, Mohler said. “Mass shootings offer neither”.
