The Patriot Post® · Friday Opinion

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• Gary Bauer: The Assault on Faith
• David Harsanyi: CNN’s Shameful Town Hall Is a Clarifying Moment on Guns
• Michael Reagan: More Love, Not Gun Control
• Marc A. Thiessen: The GOP Tax Reform Used to Be Extremely Unpopular. Not Anymore.
• Rich Lowry: John Kelly Shouldn’t Go Anywhere

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Opinion in Brief

Gary Bauer: “Christians understand that we have free will and that we live in a fallen world. Some people might use their free will to kill fellow students. Some people will use their free will to save their fellow students during a school shooting. Prayer cannot repeal free will. God allows man to follow his own desires. But I believe prayer works in ways that we do not fully comprehend on this earth. It also comforts and heals. It is sad but telling that so many on the Left feel it is necessary to attack the faith of millions of Americans after such tragedies. Celebrity physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson mocked Christians with this tweet: ‘Evidence collected over many years, obtained from many locations, indicates that the power of Prayer is insufficient to stop bullets from killing school children.’ For those who worship at the altar of science, here is a fairly easy study to do: Look at the shooters who have attacked American schools in recent decades. Identify how many of them were Bible-believing Christians who prayed and how many were into dark, anti-religious secular, humanist philosophies. I believe any fair study will find that what we ought to be asking is how we can get more of our children to believe in a loving God and spend more time praying. I guarantee that the more our children embrace faith the fewer school shootings there will be.”