{"id":40313,"date":"2015-06-24T12:05:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T17:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=40313"},"modified":"2015-06-24T12:16:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T17:16:29","slug":"if-we-want-freedom-of-worship-then-we-need-freedom-from-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/inspiration\/if-we-want-freedom-of-worship-then-we-need-freedom-from-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"If We Want Freedom of Worship, Then We Need Freedom From Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/church-article.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-40317 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/church-article.jpg\" alt=\"church-article\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/church-article.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/church-article-280x158.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>News of last week\u2019s terror attack \u2014 and that\u2019s what it was \u2014 at the Charleston\u2019s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church that left nine dead\u00a0during\u00a0a Bible study session\u00a0has\u00a0rightfully yielded both our outrage and our sorrow.\u00a0In the African American community it\u00a0has\u00a0sounded echoes of the bleakest days of the 1960s. In\u00a0the Jewish community, it called to mind scenes like the more recent terror attacks on a synagogue in Jerusalem and a Jewish school in France.<\/p>\n<p>Our collective\u00a0attention,\u00a0and the priority of our government officials,\u00a0is and should be\u00a0 focused first on bringing\u00a0as much\u00a0comfort\u00a0as possible to\u00a0the victims\u2019 families and communities and\u00a0bringing\u00a0the\u00a0perpetrator\u00a0to justice. But\u00a0the next task must be to ensure that we\u2019re\u00a0proactively doing\u00a0everything we can to deter the likelihood, or at least diminish the severity, of possible future assaults on houses of worship and other faith institutions.<\/p>\n<p>No matter which religion we believe in or where we worship, we all have the right to defend ourselves and our communities from those who would do us harm.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2015\/06\/24\/if-we-want-freedom-of-worship-then-we-need-freedom-from-fear\/\">The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News of last week\u2019s terror attack \u2014 and that\u2019s what it was \u2014 at the Charleston\u2019s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church that left nine dead\u00a0during\u00a0a Bible study session\u00a0has\u00a0rightfully yielded both our outrage and our sorrow.\u00a0In the African American community it\u00a0has\u00a0sounded echoes of the bleakest days of the 1960s. 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