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MSNBC Guest Says It’s ‘Theological Malpractice’ To Pray In The Wake Of School Shooting
DailyWire.com ^ | Aug 31, 2025 | Virginia Kruta

Posted on 08/31/2025 11:22:17 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

"... we’re willing to worship the lives of our children to appease the prophets of the gun industry"

One MSNBC guest claimed on Saturday that calls for prayer after the tragic school shooting that unfolded just days earlier were “a form of idolatry” and “theological malpractice,” arguing that unless people were also willing to go after gun manufacturers, their prayers meant nothing.

Tennessee State Rep. Justin Jones, a Democrat, joined MSNBC host Ali Velshi to discuss the shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, MN — and he blamed Republican lawmakers and guns for the tragic shooting.

WATCH:

After a brief discussion about the potential role played by violent video games, Velshi pivoted to blame the guns. “There are people who play video games all over the world, and nobody has the problem the way we have it in the United States. So it might actually be about the guns.”

“I mean, that’s exactly it. And, you know, I want to take it a step further and say that — I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people who want to give thoughts and prayers after a shooting, but I was a minister and that is a form of theological malpractice,” Jones cut straight to the point. “When you pray for something that you have the power to change — there’s an African proverb that says, when you pray, you move your hands and feet. You know, what we’re seeing is a form of idolatry, where we’re willing to worship the lives of our children to appease the prophets of the gun industry.”

Jones went on to attack Republicans over a Tennessee law, saying, “After the mass shooting at the Covenant School, the only law Republicans passed that year...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: antiprayer; banglist; media; msm; msnbc
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"... we’re willing to worship the lives of our children to appease the prophets of the gun industry"

I think he meant "sacrifice," the way they sacrifice children to appease the profits of the "gender-affirming care" industry.

1 posted on 08/31/2025 11:22:17 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Where do they find these turkeys, and how much are they paid to say such outrageous things?


2 posted on 08/31/2025 11:23:05 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Trans shooter wrote: “Where is your God now?”

The media says (basically): “Where is your God now?”

All on the same page. All against Christianity. All for child sacrifice and barbarism.


3 posted on 08/31/2025 11:24:15 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Society has no reward for following the rules any more)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

But no effort to provide for stopping the ‘GAC” they seem to worship. I see. In short, 🖕!


4 posted on 08/31/2025 11:26:02 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍! Winning currently!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The only prayers the leftist cult authorizes, are for the demise and end of the Trump Administration and the torture and ruin of his voters. The media endorses that with full effort.


5 posted on 08/31/2025 11:27:56 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We think about children, this fool thinks about control of others.


6 posted on 08/31/2025 11:27:57 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Always on the 20 side of an 80/20 issue.

Go rats. Don’t change!


7 posted on 08/31/2025 11:28:29 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Justin Jones is a God-hating pig. Where do the voters find this sewage? Blaming crimes committed by mentally deficient trannies on gun manufactures is retarded. We don’t blame murders committed by drunken illegal alien drivers on car manufacturers.


8 posted on 08/31/2025 11:29:10 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Is this damn country so hard up for Judges that we have to hire Sparkle Sookananan from Trinidad?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

MSNOW trying to spend eternity in Hell.


9 posted on 08/31/2025 11:33:11 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Guns and arms in the hands of those ruled by lefty despots have killed about a million times more children and other innocent people than lefty transgender loons ever have. Some may disagree here, but “transgender” idiots have a mental illness and should not be allowed to be near any type of weapon more dangerous than a plastic spoon. Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.


10 posted on 08/31/2025 11:34:27 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’ll be suing for “theological malpractice” after I don’t get into heaven.


11 posted on 08/31/2025 11:36:04 AM PDT by x
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To: Antoninus

He’s a real piece of work. I think he’s been expelled or banned from the Capitol twice for his insane and sometimes violent antics.

He pulled an outrageous stunt in the Capitol over demanding gun control after the Covenant school massacre in Nashville (perp was trans in that one, too). That’s probably why PMSNBC invited him.

I hate wiki, but this gives an overview of his radical lefty nuttiness:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Jones_(Tennessee_politician)


12 posted on 08/31/2025 11:36:08 AM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "all's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

How many times did Jesus urge us to pray in the Gospels?


13 posted on 08/31/2025 11:39:09 AM PDT by rwa265
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To: CatHerd

Dead End Link
Thanks


14 posted on 08/31/2025 11:42:13 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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Seriously, this guy is a chump. Paul chides us to "Pray without ceasing." (Thes. 5:17).

No man should come between you and God. How dare this chump butt in where he is neither wanted nor needed.

15 posted on 08/31/2025 11:50:10 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Antoninus
This evil idiot thinks the gun jumped off the table, wrote Kill Donald Trump on itself then ran to the Church pulling the little pervert behind it to kill children praying.
You want a law passed? Make it illegal to sexually mutilate children or anyone under the age of 18. Then outlaw public obscenity... then take 'kink teaching' out of public schools.

16 posted on 08/31/2025 11:50:52 AM PDT by GOPJ (Chicago's mayor? Is he working with cartels and organized crime? <I><B><big><center> )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;

Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;

Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes

And clever in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21


17 posted on 08/31/2025 11:51:49 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Big Red Badger

Oops! I must have goofed somehow. Thanks for letting me know and please accept my sincere apology!

Trying again:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Jones_(Tennessee_politician)


18 posted on 08/31/2025 11:55:41 AM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "all's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: Antoninus
Oh and I'm sick of liberals holding candles up and looking solemn or building garbage piles of flowers.

We can object to their way of grieving too - if we were a-holes like them...So hold your candles and grieve as you wish - sorry that you jerkoffs are incapable of empathy or kindness toward others. Thoughts and prayers that you start choosing better leaders someday.

19 posted on 08/31/2025 11:56:47 AM PDT by GOPJ (Chicago's mayor? Is he working with cartels and organized crime? <I><B><big><center> )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Simply parroting the talking points given to him by his masters.


20 posted on 08/31/2025 11:58:43 AM PDT by johniegrad
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