{"id":2772,"date":"2009-02-13T18:57:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T23:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=2772"},"modified":"2009-02-13T18:57:22","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T23:57:22","slug":"if-god-isnt-there-why-do-people-care-if-we-speak-to-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/if-god-isnt-there-why-do-people-care-if-we-speak-to-him\/","title":{"rendered":"If God isn&#039;t there why do people care if we speak to him?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think the reason is simple: God is there; so is the Devil; both God and the Devil can inspire us; people who protest at prayer are not inspired by God.<\/p>\n<p>Connect the dots.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/article-1144163\/JOHN-SENTAMU-The-intolerance-Christians-public-sector-affront.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The intolerance towards Christians in the public sector is an affront.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In recent days, prayer has found its way into the headlines for other reasons\u00a0 altogether. Last week, community nurse Caroline Petrie was suspended as a result of offering to pray for a patient&#8217;s recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Jennie Cain, a primary school receptionist, was facing disciplinary action as a consequence of sending out an email asking friends to pray for her daughter.<\/p>\n<p>The facts of the cases differ in their contexts and circumstances, but at their heart is a seeming intolerance and illiberality about faith in God which is being reflected in the higher echelons of our public services.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the reason is simple: God is there; so is the Devil; both God and the Devil can inspire us; people who protest at prayer are not inspired by God. Connect the dots. From here: The intolerance towards Christians &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/if-god-isnt-there-why-do-people-care-if-we-speak-to-him\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[2080],"class_list":["post-2772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","tag-christianity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}