{"id":5594,"date":"2011-03-19T23:13:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T23:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=5594"},"modified":"2011-03-19T23:57:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T23:57:59","slug":"the-rush-for-judgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-rush-for-judgment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rush for Judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tragedy in Japan has produced a <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/blogs\/opinion-zone\/2011\/03\/japan-suffering-wrath-g-d#ixzz1H5Hpzns5\">grimly familiar response<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The identity of the Japanese people is greed. This tsunami represents a good opportunity to cleanse this greed, and one we must avail ourselves of. Indeed, I think this is divine punishment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And here\u2019s Glenn Beck:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m not saying God is, you know, causing earthquakes, I\u2019m not <em>not<\/em> saying that either.<\/p>\n<p>What God does is God\u2019s business. But I\u2019ll tell you this, whether you call it Gaia or whether you call it Jesus, there\u2019s a message being sent; \u2018Hey, you know that stuff we\u2019re doing. It\u2019s not really working out. Maybe we should stop doing some of it.\u2019 I\u2019m just saying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m at a loss to know what leads people to say this sort of stuff. Maybe they believe it, maybe it\u2019s simple opportunism or maybe it\u2019s an attempt to find some sort of meaning out of a hideous, random event.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s certainly very sad. <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5608\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Omikuji-Tokyo-June-2005-AS.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5608\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Omikuji-Tokyo-June-2005-AS-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Omikuji, Tokyo (June 2005) (AS)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Omikuji-Tokyo-June-2005-AS-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Omikuji-Tokyo-June-2005-AS-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omikuji, Tokyo (June 2005) (AS)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tragedy in Japan has produced a grimly familiar response. Here\u2019s Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara: The identity of the Japanese people is greed. This tsunami represents a good opportunity to cleanse this greed, and one we must avail ourselves of. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-rush-for-judgment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[711],"tags":[727,575,232,726],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5594"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5602,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594\/revisions\/5602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}