{"id":9497,"date":"2013-04-06T21:57:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T05:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=9497"},"modified":"2013-04-06T21:58:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T05:58:34","slug":"a-disturbance-in-the-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/a-disturbance-in-the-force\/","title":{"rendered":"A Disturbance in the Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Matthew-Warren-RIP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9498\" alt=\"Matthew Warren RIP\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Matthew-Warren-RIP.jpg?resize=317%2C395\" width=\"317\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Matthew-Warren-RIP.jpg?w=317&amp;ssl=1 317w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Matthew-Warren-RIP.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It hurt my heart to learn that Matthew Warren, the son of Pastor Rick Warren, ended his life at age <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/27_Club\" target=\"_blank\">27<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t even need to read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/southern-calif-church-says-son-of-pastor-rick-warren-commits-suicide\/2013\/04\/06\/144bc788-9eff-11e2-9219-51eb8387e8f1_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a> to assume that Matthew&#8217;s death was caused by lifelong depression. Too often, suicide is the outcome of this kind of unrelenting pain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/2008\/12\/22\/why-did-god-make-rick-warren\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Warren<\/a> is a homophobic cunt whose stance has done harm all around the world. He and his church have had a\u00a0presence\u00a0in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sexualminoritiesuganda.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Uganda<\/a>, whipping up anti-gay fervor and violence.<\/p>\n<p>But no one deserves the loss of a child. Pastor Warren probably did his best to help his son hang on. Sometimes your best isn&#8217;t enough.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Matthew&#8217;s uncle led a prayer at the Saddleback Church, thanking his god for something or other. \u00a0As if some god had a secret plan for poor Matthew, and could still be relied upon for anything.<\/p>\n<p>I wish someone had at least made sure that Matthew didn&#8217;t have a gun! Is that too much to ask?<\/p>\n<p>I have no one to pray to. I can only mourn the loss of another sweet vulnerable soul who couldn&#8217;t stick around. The world needs more of them, not less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It hurt my heart to learn that Matthew Warren, the son of Pastor Rick Warren, ended his life at age 27. I didn&#8217;t even need to read the story to assume that Matthew&#8217;s death was caused by lifelong depression. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/a-disturbance-in-the-force\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[376,5,8],"tags":[475,389],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-2tb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}