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So what are well-intentioned people of faith supposed to do? How does one respond to the incessant onslaught of negativity, criticism and legal action aimed at those who choose to make their religious convictions known in the public square? Perhaps a good place to start would be the example set by the young men of the Naperville Central High School football team in suburban Chicago. After representatives from The Freedom from Religion Foundation filed a complaint against Coach Mike Stine’s voluntary practice of allowing players who want to to gather on the field and pray before games, senior player Daniel...

You can see a coarsening in how we respond and react on social media. No one feels ashamed to exploit the tragedy for political purposes even while it is happening. But as soon as the story broke Wednesday afternoon, and while it was still going on, there were accusations and bitter words flung all over the Internet. The weirdest argument came almost immediately. A person named Chris Murphy, who is a U.S. senator representing Connecticut, sent out what struck me as the most manipulative message of recent political history. The background is that Republican presidential contestants responded online to the...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Saturday blasted the New York Daily News for "prayer shaming" and scoffed at The New York Times for a front page editorial on gun control. During a speech in Iowa, the GOP presidential candidate called out the newspapers for their front pages following the shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., that left 14 dead and dozens wounded, and which is now being investigated as terrorism. "The left's immediate reaction to radical Islamic terrorists, like kittens with their eyes closed, is not to go after the bad guys, but immediately to try to seize the guns of...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: It was so pointed, the left got into gear so fast with their automatic narratives. Another Planned Parenthood shooting or another right-wing Republican group shooting up. I mean, they're waiting for these events to happen. And then the New York Daily News headline today: "God Isn't Fixing This." Have you noticed how that was immediately on the lips of many leftists out there, as though this has been planned in advance for the next event such as this? We're gonna go after these Republican presidential candidates who offer prayers for the families of the victims in the...

"God isn’t fixing this,” Thursday’s newspaper proclaims after Republican presidential candidates “offer prayers”

On Thursday, both CBS This Morning and NBC's Today eagerly promoted the New York Daily News attacking Republicans for sending "thoughts and prayers" to victims of the San Bernardino shooting but not signing on to liberal gun control measures. This Morning co-host Gayle King declared: "I think this headline's very powerful." She then touted Democratic Senator Chris Murphy blasting his pro-gun colleagues: "Chris Murphy from Connecticut says, 'Your thoughts should be about steps to take to stop this carnage. Your prayers should be about forgiveness if you do nothing again.'"

Being that the United States is the most religious country in the industrialized world, it's safe to say that many people offer prayers when tragedy strikes. During and after the horrific mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, which left 14 dead, liberal America had a rather vile reaction to those who were offering prayers for the victims–they shamed them for doing it. Guy nailed it on the head. After years of failing to convince the public that their agenda of confiscating firearms from law-abiding citizens was a good policy, liberals have declared war on the prayer-giving public, especially the 2016...

Having run out of excuses why mass shootings are becoming regular events, Leftists have exposed their worldview like a peacock fanning its tail feathers: in full lavish display.  To them, prayer is, and always has been, a useless exercise.  They see no hand of God in anything. Lord, forgive them.  They know not what they do. This new phenomenon has been dubbed "prayer shaming," as if somehow it's offensive that people of faith are praying for victims.   They call it "platitudes" instead of action.  They proclaim "God isn't fixing this." They think gun control is some magic medicine to...

Directly after a mass shooting, in the minutes or hours or days between the first trickle of news and when police find a suspect or make arrests, it is very difficult to know what to do. Some people demand political action, like greater gun control; others call for prayer. In the aftermath of a violent shooting spree in San Bernardino, California, on Wednesday, in which at least 14 victims are reported to have died, people with those differing reactions quickly turned against one another. For example: Here’s the Washington editor at the liberal publication The Nation, George Zornick, on reactions...