{"id":441,"date":"2009-01-21T05:19:20","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T09:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/?p=441"},"modified":"2009-01-21T05:19:20","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T09:19:20","slug":"a-faith-based-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/2009\/01\/a-faith-based-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"A Faith-based Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/images\/managed\/Story+Image_sized_knottedgun2.jpg\" alt=\"Knotted Gun\" \/>Okay\u2014another article with the same basic gist I&#8217;ve been harping on this month. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/2009\/01\/an-experiment-in-faith\/\">Nonviolence in statist discourse, etc&#8230;<\/a> This time I take on Obama and Martin Luther King, Jr., in particular the latter&#8217;s 1967 speech at Riverside Church on Vietnam. Why can we still only celebrate King&#8217;s nonviolence in the civil rights movement but not his call to be nonviolent in southeast Asia?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I&#8217;m missing something obvious.<\/p>\n<p>Also here is the rhetorical choice that a state policy of nonviolence should be a decision of faith, a hope in the unseen, rather than just evidence-based bureaucratic computation. Of course, my <a href=\"http:\/\/dont.smallsclone.com\">DoNT<\/a> project approaches the issue in the evidence-based (while also pretty silly) way. Can&#8217;t hurt to try both.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/oped\/998\/nonviolence%3A_between_our_safety_and_our_ideals\" target=\"_blank\">See the new article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/images\/managed\/Story+Image_sized_knottedgun2.jpg\" alt=\"Knotted Gun\" \/>Okay\u2014another article with the same basic gist I&#8217;ve been harping on this month. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/2009\/01\/an-experiment-in-faith\/\">Nonviolence in statist discourse, etc&#8230;<\/a> This time I take on Obama and Martin Luther King, Jr., in particular the latter&#8217;s 1967 speech at Riverside Church on Vietnam. Why can we still only celebrate King&#8217;s nonviolence in the civil rights movement but not his call to be nonviolent in southeast Asia?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I&#8217;m missing something obvious.<\/p>\n<p>Also here is the rhetorical choice that a state policy of nonviolence should be a decision of faith, a hope in the unseen, rather than just evidence-based bureaucratic computation. Of course, my <a href=\"http:\/\/dont.smallsclone.com\">DoNT<\/a> project approaches the issue in the evidence-based (while also pretty silly) way. Can&#8217;t hurt to try both.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/oped\/998\/nonviolence%3A_between_our_safety_and_our_ideals\" target=\"_blank\">See the new article here<\/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":[55,65],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-language","tag-nonviolence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}