{"id":784,"date":"2008-08-22T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2008\/08\/22\/the-power-of-prayer-ii-muslims-blame-christian-prayers-for-muslim-leaders-death\/"},"modified":"2008-08-22T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T13:05:00","slug":"the-power-of-prayer-ii-muslims-blame-christian-prayers-for-muslim-leaders-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2008\/08\/22\/the-power-of-prayer-ii-muslims-blame-christian-prayers-for-muslim-leaders-death\/","title":{"rendered":"THE POWER OF PRAYER II: Muslims blame Christian prayers for Muslim leader\u2019s death."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on a <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlaw.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/prayer-reduces-fuel-prices.html\">recent post about how effective Christian prayer has supposedly been in reducing pump prices in the US<\/a>, there&#8217;s now more news from Nigeria about the alleged power of Christian prayer.<\/p>\n<p>ILORIN, Nigeria, August 14 (Compass Direct News) \u2013 <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Blaming the death of their leader on Christian prayers, an Islamist group that launched a hate campaign in response to an evangelistic event in 2004 is reportedly attacking Christians in this Kwara state capital with renewed virulence, area Christians said.<\/p>\n<p><\/span>Muslims are attacking Christians because they think that Christians prayed for the death of their leader, <span style=\"font-style: italic\">and their prayers worked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Why would their prayers work, though, if, as Muslims think, Christianity is a false religion? Very weird.<\/p>\n<p>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.compassdirect.org\/en\/display.php?page=news&amp;lang=en&amp;length=long&amp;idelement=5519\">here<\/a> for the report.<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on a recent post about how effective Christian prayer has supposedly been in reducing pump prices in the US, there&#8217;s now more news from Nigeria about the alleged power of Christian prayer. ILORIN, Nigeria, August 14 (Compass Direct News) \u2013 Blaming the death of their leader on Christian prayers, an Islamist group that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}