Media, Politicians Mock Prayer After Shooting: ‘F**k Your Prayers’

Kristine Marsh
December 3rd, 2015 12:22 PM
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Immediately following the shooting in San Bernardino yesterday, many people offered up their prayers for the victims and their family members. In response, many liberal journalists and politicians took to Twitter to mock prayer as “ineffective” and called for conservatives to “shut up.”

Some Twitter users clarified that they didn’t hate prayer, just prayer without action. All well and good, but there are three important things to remember:

  • The “action” liberals want is more gun control or bans on gun ownership entirely.
  • Thanks to Salon, we know that plenty of liberals don’t like prayer, whether or not it’s accompanied by actions fulfilling their most appealing gun-grabbing fantasies.
  • These same people were unfazed by the ineffectual sentimentality of Michelle Obama’s frowny-face #BringBackOurGirls picture (or any of this administration’s contemptible stabs at hashtag diplomacy).

Here are some of the worst slams by the journalists and politicians on prayer:

Comedian Tim Heidecker tweeted out, “Fuck your prayers” in response to Ted Cruz’s tweet calling for prayer:

Markos Moulitsas, founder of Daily Kos and co-founder of Vox asked if prayers would “bring back” the dead:

Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten told people praying to “shut up” and that they “were the problem.”

Another Post columnist Alexandra Petri tweeted sarcastically:

While Vox’s Matthew Yglesias similarly mocked:

The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein called prayer “an ineffective strategy”:

Jill Filipovic, former Cosmopolitan senior political writer and Guardian columnist, snarked:

Wil Gafney, a “feminist scholar” and contributor to The Huffington Post, tweeted:

So what was her solution to “do everything in your power” to end violence?

Comedian and crass sex columnist Dan Savage mocked the “thoughts and prayers” theme by suggesting we “think about repealing the 2nd Amendment” and pray over “destroying the NRA”:

Andy Lassner, executive producer for the Ellen Show similarly snarked:

While writer and producer for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Miles Kahn tweeted that the GOP needed thoughts and prayers to “suck up to the NRA”:

and who could forget today’s New York Daily News cover?

George Zornick, Washington editor for The Nation compared GOP’s invocation for prayer to the Democrats’ tweets for gun control:

Senior correspondent for Mic News Scott Bixby tweeted that the “official GOP position” was “praying.”

Some politicians even joined in on the prayer bashing, from Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) to Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley, to DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.

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