{"id":4488,"date":"2024-07-15T02:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4488"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:23","slug":"finger-pointing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4488","title":{"rendered":"FINGER POINTING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been following developments on Twitter since the attempted assassination of Trump yesterday. I don&#8217;t read it regularly anymore but it does tend to be a good place to take the culture&#8217;s pulse on the topics of the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was surprised at how many tweets in the last 24 hours sought to pin blame for the shooting on somebody other than the would-be assassin.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And, of course, the other party was always &#8220;the one who started it&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s strange &#8211; I don&#8217;t remember a single tweet suggesting the shooter&#8217;s mental health as a possible factor.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And there was zero speculation about demonic influence.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I have to wonder &#8211; especially when it comes to the arena of political leadership &#8211; do we take seriously the biblical depiction of destructive spiritual forces at work in our world, unleashing chaos and suffering?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do Satan and other demonic forces exert influence over individuals and entire cultures or not? Seems like the Bible says they do.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How come they seldom get any of the credit for the chaos unleashed by sin?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been following developments on Twitter since the attempted assassination of Trump yesterday. I don&#8217;t read it regularly anymore but it does tend to be a good place to take the culture&#8217;s pulse on the topics of the day.\u00a0 I was surprised at how many tweets in the last 24 hours sought to pin [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-4488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4489,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488\/revisions\/4489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}