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发帖数: 897 | 1 House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is defending his call for prayers after a
gunman killed 26 people in a Texas church on Sunday.
Ryan and other politicians have been criticized for offering thoughts and
prayers instead of legislative action to reduce gun violence. But on Monday
night, Ryan told Fox News host Laura Ingraham:
“It’s disappointing, it’s sad, and this is what you’ll get from the
far secular left. People who do not have faith don’t understand faith, I
guess I’d have to say. And it is the right thing to do is to pray in
moments like this, because you know what? Prayer works. And I know you
believe that, and I believe that and when you hear the secular left doing
this thing, it’s no wonder you have so much polarization and disunity in
this country when people think like that.”
Sending “thoughts and prayers” on social media has become a way for both
religious and secular people to grieve after national tragedies.
For religious people in particular, prayer is an important form of worship
and a way to ask God for guidance and intervention.
Especially after great personal sorrow, faith helps people to cling to hope.
The Rev. Frank Pomeroy, pastor of First Baptist Church of Sutherland
Springs, lost his 14-year-old daughter and at least 25 other church members
in Sunday’s mass shooting. He told reporters on Monday that he has decided
to “lean into the Lord.”
“I don’t understand, but I know my God does,” Pomeroy said.
But it is one thing for Pomeroy to lean into his faith after the shooting at
his church, and something completely different for Ryan to offer prayers
without action ― especially after reportedly receiving more than $170,000
in contributions from gun rights groups in 2016.
In a statement, Bishops United Against Gun Violence, a group representing
more than 70 Episcopal bishops, said that Christians are called to pray
after the tragic shooting in Texas, but that prayer should also be
accompanied by deep introspection about “whether we are complicit in the
evils we deplore.”
“In the wake of the heartbreaking shooting at First Baptist Church in
Sutherland Springs, Texas, we find ourselves both calling people to prayer,
and wishing that the word did not come so readily to the lips of elected
leaders who are quick to speak, but take no action on behalf of public
safety,” the bishops said. “Each of us has a role to play in our
repentance. Elected representatives bear the responsibility of passing
legislation that protects our citizenry. If our representatives are not up
to this responsibility, we must replace them. In the meantime, however, we
ask that in honor of our many murdered dead, elected leaders who behave as
though successive episode of mass slaughter are simply the price our nation
pays for freedom stop the reflexive and corrosive repetition of the phrase
‘thoughts and prayers.’”
“One does not offer prayers in lieu of demonstrating political courage, but
rather in preparation.” | C*******h
发帖数: 6095 | 2 这货这次应该是发自真心的。这货肯定天天祈祷自己干了那么多坏事不会下地狱，目前
还没下所以觉得祈祷有用。
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: House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is defending his call for prayers after a
: gunman killed 26 people in a Texas church on Sunday.
: Ryan and other politicians have been criticized for offering thoughts and
: prayers instead of legislative action to reduce gun violence. But on Monday
: night, Ryan told Fox News host Laura Ingraham:
: “It’s disappointing, it’s sad, and this is what you’ll get from the
: far secular left. People who do not have faith don’t understand faith, I
: guess I’d have to say. And it is the right thing to do is to pray in
: moments like this, because you know what? Prayer works. And I know you
: believe that, and I believe that and when you hear the secular left doing
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