America Must Ratchet Down the Rhetoric, Seek God and Pray
We are a divided nation that is in crisis. We are no longer talking to each other – only screaming at one another. We are like a married couple in crisis.
I understand there are strong feelings about these statues given the inflamed rhetoric that is swirling around right now. However, tearing down statues and inciting violence is not the way forward.
Where are the media's calls to civility that they issued immediately after James Hodgkinson, a Bernie Sanders supporter and volunteer who came to Washington with a hit list and shot my friend Steve Scalise?
I've dealt with those domestic situations as both a police officer and a pastor. I prefer the route of restoring the relationship rather than having to cart one of the parties off to jail which rarely brings reconciliation.
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What I believe the president should do is call for a time out and call for a day of prayer for America's healing. I know there are some who will squawk at the idea of a Day of Prayer and Reconciliation -- let them instead have a Day of Silence.
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Nothing good can come from the current shouting match that the left and right is engaged in -- we are bitterly divided and the fissure is only getting deeper by the day.
I echo the media's message after Steve Scalise was shot: ratchet down the rhetoric. But I add that we should go a step further this time and let us take a day to seek God and pray for him to bring healing to our nation. http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/tony-perkins/tony-perkins-america-must-ratchet-down-rhetoric-seek-god-and-pray
I understand there are strong feelings about these statues given the inflamed rhetoric that is swirling around right now. However, tearing down statues and inciting violence is not the way forward.
Where are the media's calls to civility that they issued immediately after James Hodgkinson, a Bernie Sanders supporter and volunteer who came to Washington with a hit list and shot my friend Steve Scalise?
I've dealt with those domestic situations as both a police officer and a pastor. I prefer the route of restoring the relationship rather than having to cart one of the parties off to jail which rarely brings reconciliation.
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What I believe the president should do is call for a time out and call for a day of prayer for America's healing. I know there are some who will squawk at the idea of a Day of Prayer and Reconciliation -- let them instead have a Day of Silence.
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Nothing good can come from the current shouting match that the left and right is engaged in -- we are bitterly divided and the fissure is only getting deeper by the day.
I echo the media's message after Steve Scalise was shot: ratchet down the rhetoric. But I add that we should go a step further this time and let us take a day to seek God and pray for him to bring healing to our nation. http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/tony-perkins/tony-perkins-america-must-ratchet-down-rhetoric-seek-god-and-pray
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Notice how this commenter contributes so much to stoking the fire and then comes along and turns almost on a dime to deplore the smoking rubble he creates.
Notice how this commenter contributes so much to stoking the fire and then comes along and turns almost on a dime to deplore the smoking rubble he creates.
It's called passing the blame or playing innocent.
But I add that we should go a step further this time and let us take a day to seek God and pray for him to bring healing to our nation.
You're free to do so. But don't expect me to pray to some non-existence deity, which does absolutely nothing. But I'm sure doing so will make others feel like they're actually doing something constructive.
Yes, let us pray ... to the god that supposedly once murdered the world.
Yes, let us pray ... to the god that supposedly once murdered the world.
And supposedly unleashed plagues on a city just because he was ticked off at 1 guy. Or tortured and ruined some guy's life just to win a bet. Why anyone would pray to, much less worship, such an evil ogre is beyond me.
Wouldn't this garbage be better suited for the Holy Roller group? The private group that doesn't allow non-believer participation?