{"id":58465,"date":"2016-04-27T11:30:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T16:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58465"},"modified":"2016-06-02T17:09:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T22:09:25","slug":"moral-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58465","title":{"rendered":"Moral Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the left &#8220;thinks&#8221; <sup>1<\/sup> that Wayne LaPierre is two steps down below Satan. \u00a0 Indeed, as many on the left fancy themselves empiricists, spirituality gives them an unearned chuckle.<\/p>\n<p>But they always make an exception for Buddhism. \u00a0Because Far East.<\/p>\n<p>And on one\u00a0issue, I&#8217;ll agree with &#8217;em; I wish more Western religious leaders had the moral clarity to say this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/politics\/graphics\/dalai.jpg\" width=\"526\" height=\"236\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And no &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/politics\/guns\/dalailama.asp\">it&#8217;s not apocryphal<\/a>. \u00a0 (Or especially well-informed; he urges one to shoot &#8220;at the leg&#8221;. \u00a0It&#8217;d take a lot of meditation to calm an adrenaline rush enough to make that feasible).<\/p>\n<p>Your turn, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/101928606548259\/photos\/a.117534491654337.21681.101928606548259\/996860657055045\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Reverend Nancy Nord Bence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> Where &#8220;think&#8221; = &#8220;has been painstakingly been trained to regurgitate&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the left &#8220;thinks&#8221; 1 that Wayne LaPierre is two steps down below Satan. \u00a0 Indeed, as many on the left fancy themselves empiricists, spirituality gives them an unearned chuckle. But they always make an exception for Buddhism. \u00a0Because Far East. And on one\u00a0issue, I&#8217;ll agree with &#8217;em; I wish more Western religious leaders had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[359],"class_list":["post-58465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-rev-nancy-nord-bence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58465","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=58465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58573,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58465\/revisions\/58573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}