{"id":872,"date":"2024-04-27T12:38:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T19:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=872"},"modified":"2024-04-27T12:38:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T19:38:56","slug":"protest-the-god-of-this-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"Protest: the god of This Age."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Warning this video is not for kids,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mainstream media is not on our side.<br><br>When they are not trying to manipulate us, they are trying to distract us.<br><br>What on earth is this?!<br><br>Best advice I can give: turn off the television.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gAPQhNalxR\">pic.twitter.com\/gAPQhNalxR<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fr Calvin Robinson (@calvinrobinson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/calvinrobinson\/status\/1783264037767135560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was thinking about the Free Palestine protest when I saw this post on Twitter. What is bothersome to me about this video, the Free Palestine protester, is the irrational hate and fever of the young protesters. It reminds me of the Black Lives Matter and subsequent riots,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pundits I listen to say that the millennial generation aka the Nones are the least religious generation. I now disagree Millennials are not less religious, but their god is irrational anger, their sacrament is protest, their church is Social Media. Perhaps as one Lutheran Minister, who quipped on the fever of hate, has calls it\u00a0 \u00a0satanic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not to say we cannot rationally debate our points about the Gaza War but what is going on today is something different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I agree with Robinson about its time to tun off the TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the record I do not think Israel had any choice. Cease fire in the past only allow Hamas to reequip then attack Israel. War is ugly but sometime there is no choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning this video is not for kids, I was thinking about the Free Palestine protest when I saw this post on Twitter. What is bothersome to me about this video, the Free Palestine protester, is the irrational hate and fever &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=872\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[398,397,399],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-gaza-war","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}