{"id":15216,"date":"2016-06-12T16:39:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T16:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15216"},"modified":"2016-06-12T16:39:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T16:39:02","slug":"trying-to-comprehend-the-incomprehensible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15216","title":{"rendered":"Trying to comprehend the incomprehensible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AAgWqqi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15217\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AAgWqqi-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"AAgWqqi\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AAgWqqi-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AAgWqqi.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At this moment the nation&#8217;s heart is broken. Its head is spinning.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty people are dead after a massacre early this morning at an Orlando, Fla., nightclub. One of the dead is the shooter, an American whose parents were Afghan immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Omar Mateen opened fire with an AR-15 assault rifle. His father said his son was apparently enraged when he saw two men kissing, so he walked into the gay nightclub and killed all those innocent victims.<\/p>\n<p>Did he commit an anti-gay hate crime?<\/p>\n<p>Not so fast.<\/p>\n<p>Now we&#8217;re getting word of a pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State.<\/p>\n<p>Was this an act of an Islamic terrorist?<\/p>\n<p>Mateen&#8217;s father said &#8220;religion had nothing to do&#8221; with what his son did.<\/p>\n<p>Then we have the Texas lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, sending out a tweet &#8212; which he\u00a0has since\u00a0deleted &#8212; that quoted a Biblical passage from Galatians that said men will &#8220;reap what they sow.&#8221; Hmmm. Of all the passages he could have picked, he perhaps could have looked at Mark&#8217;s Gospel, which instructs us to\u00a0love our brothers.<\/p>\n<p>This was an act of terror, no matter how you choose to define it.<\/p>\n<p>The nation is sickened by what has happened.<\/p>\n<p>Let us pray now for the families of those who died and let us pray for the people charged with\u00a0answering the key question.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this moment the nation&#8217;s heart is broken. Its head is spinning. Fifty people are dead after a massacre early this morning at an Orlando, Fla., nightclub. One of the dead is the shooter, an American whose parents were Afghan immigrants. Omar Mateen opened fire with an AR-15 assault rifle. His father said his son &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15216\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trying to comprehend the incomprehensible<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[6314,1255,6313,6312],"class_list":["post-15216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-anti-gay-hate-crime","tag-dan-patrick","tag-islamic-terror","tag-orlando-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15218,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15216\/revisions\/15218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}