{"id":3905,"date":"2012-12-16T09:25:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T14:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3905"},"modified":"2012-12-16T09:25:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T14:25:28","slug":"a-true-gentlemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3905","title":{"rendered":"A true gentlemen"},"content":{"rendered":"

And another<\/a>.  This one even worse than Huckabee<\/a> (AP via Huffington Post):<\/p>\n

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The question is going to come up, where was God? I though God cared about the little children. God protects the little children. Where was God when all this went down. Here's the bottom line, God is not going to go where he is not wanted.<\/p>\n

Now we have spent since 1962 — we're 50 years into this now–we have spent 50 years telling God to get lost, telling God we do not want you in our schools, we don't want to pray to you in our schools, we do not want to pray to your before football games, we don't want to pray to you at graduations, we don't want anybody talking about you in a graduation speech…<\/p>\n

In 1962 we kicked prayer out of the schools. In 1963 we kicked God's word out of ours schools. In 1980 we kicked the Ten Commandments out of our schools. We've kicked God out of our public school system. And I think God would say to us, 'Hey, I'll be glad to protect your children, but you've got to invite me back into your world first. I'm not going to go where I'm not wanted. I am a gentlemen<\/strong>."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I don't get this picture of God: "God is powerful, but insecure, like Barbara Streisand before James Brolin<\/a>".<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And another.  This one even worse than Huckabee (AP via Huffington Post): The question is going to come up, where was God? I though God cared about the little children. God protects the little children. Where was God when all this went down. Here's the bottom line, God is not going to go where he is … Continue reading A true gentlemen<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1531,1529,1536,1537,1533,1535,1534,1532],"class_list":["post-3905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-brian-fischer","tag-false-cause-arguments","tag-mass-shootings","tag-newtown-connecticut","tag-problem-of-evil","tag-sandy-hook-elementary-school-massacre","tag-school-prayer","tag-theodicy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3906,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions\/3906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}