{"id":3981,"date":"2011-05-15T21:14:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T21:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3981"},"modified":"2011-05-15T21:14:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T21:14:22","slug":"from-gods-lips-to-a-childs-ear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3981","title":{"rendered":"From God&#8217;s lips to a child&#8217;s ear?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; religion, Taliban, suicide bombers, child soldiers ]<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s already a problem that the <strong>sacred texts<\/strong> of the world&#8217;s religions so frequently include passages that can be used <strong>to confer divine sanction<\/strong> on acts of needless, appalling violence \u2013 but apparently there&#8217;s no depth to which the interpretations offered by religious authorities cannot descend\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/quo-mullahs-teaching.gif\" title=\"quo-mullahs-teaching.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/quo-mullahs-teaching.gif\" alt=\"quo-mullahs-teaching.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Does anyone truly think &#8220;all the people around us would die, but we would stay alive&#8221; is what God intended to whisper in that nine-year-old child&#8217;s ear?<\/p>\n<p>Luke 11.11: <em>If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; religion, Taliban, suicide bombers, child soldiers ] . It&#8217;s already a problem that the sacred texts of the world&#8217;s religions so frequently include passages that can be used to confer divine sanction on acts of needless, appalling violence \u2013 but apparently there&#8217;s no depth to which the interpretations offered by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,210,533,212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-islamist","category-religion","category-suicide-bombing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}