When we call for violence – even retribution for martyrs – how do we justify it?<\/p>\n
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Quit your worship charades. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stand your trivial religious games: <\/span><\/p>\n
Monthly conferences, weekly Sabbaths, special meetings\u00e2\u20ac\u201d meetings, meetings, meetings\u00e2\u20ac\u201dI can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stand one more! Meetings for this, meetings for that. <\/p>\n
I hate them! <\/p>\n
You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve worn me out! I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sick of your religion, religion, religion, while you go right on sinning. <\/p>\n
When you put on your next prayer-performance, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be looking the other way. <\/p>\n
No matter how long or loud or often you pray, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll not be listening. <\/p>\n
And do you know why? <\/p>\n
Because you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been tearing people to pieces, and your hands are bloody. <\/b><\/p>\n
Go home and wash up. <\/p>\n
Clean up your act. <\/p>\n
Sweep your lives clean of your evildoings so I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to look at them any longer. <\/p>\n
Say no to wrong. <\/p>\n
Learn to do good. <\/p>\n
Work for justice. <\/p>\n
Help the down-and-out. <\/p>\n
Stand up for the homeless. <\/p>\n
Go to bat for the defenseless. (\u00e2\u20ac\u00adIsaiah\u00e2\u20ac\u00ac \u00e2\u20ac\u00ad1\u00e2\u20ac\u00ac:\u00e2\u20ac\u00ad13-17\u00e2\u20ac\u00ac MSG)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When we call for violence – even retribution for martyrs – how do we justify it? \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Quit your worship charades. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stand your trivial religious games: Monthly conferences, weekly Sabbaths, special meetings\u00e2\u20ac\u201d meetings, meetings, meetings\u00e2\u20ac\u201dI can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stand one more! Meetings for this, meetings for that. I hate them! You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve worn me out! I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sick … Continue reading You’ve been tearing people to pieces<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-3AN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13814,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13813\/revisions\/13814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}