{"id":53617,"date":"2015-05-28T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53617"},"modified":"2015-05-28T13:15:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T18:15:30","slug":"my-telethon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53617","title":{"rendered":"My Telethon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The usual suspects in the media are soiling themselves over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/bs-md-rodricks-0224-20150223-column.html\">this story<\/a> \u2013 Americans who are going to Iraq to help teach Iraqi Christians how to fight against the ISIS butchers who are shooting, beheading and burning them alive.<\/p>\n<p>Mainstream Christianity has not been an especially martial faith for the last 500 years or so. Mainstream American Christianity in particular fairly wets itself at the thought of individual self defense; I can see an ELCA Lutheran congregation in Edina shooting steam out it&#8217;s ears at the thought of arming and training fellow Christians against those who, you know, are killiing the men, raping the women and selling the children into slavery (when they&#8217;re not burning them alive).<\/p>\n<p>The Jews \u2013 and for that matter, Irish Catholics \u2013 haven&#8217;t had the leeway to be as stupid over the centuries.<\/p>\n<p>My million dollar idea for today: a national telethon of Christian radio stations to raise money for the Christian resistance in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>We are, indeed, our brothers keeper. Mercy and forgiveness are wonderful qualities \u2013 when your children, and Our children, aren&#8217;t under immediate threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The usual suspects in the media are soiling themselves over this story \u2013 Americans who are going to Iraq to help teach Iraqi Christians how to fight against the ISIS butchers who are shooting, beheading and burning them alive. Mainstream Christianity has not been an especially martial faith for the last 500 years or so. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faiths-and-their-followers","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53617"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53636,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53617\/revisions\/53636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}