{"id":6892,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/a-rabbit-foot-or-the-word-of-god\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:48","slug":"a-rabbit-foot-or-the-word-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/a-rabbit-foot-or-the-word-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rabbit Foot Or the Word of God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many Americans give the Bible lip-service but never crack it open.  In the movie \u201cAmerican Sniper\u201d the hero, Chris Kyle, goes to church as a kid and keeps a Bible in the pocket next to his heart during combat.  Another soldier challenges him &#8211; do you ever actually read it?  Chris\u2019s fallen face shows that he doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle\u2019s autobiography gives a more nuanced answer.  He writes, \u201cI\u2019m not the kind of person who makes a big show out of religion.  I believe, but I don\u2019t necessarily get down on my knees or sing real loud in church.  But I find some comfort in faith, and I found it in those days after my friends had been shot up.  Ever since I had gone through [SEAL] training, I\u2019d carried a Bible with me.  I hadn\u2019t read it all that much, but it had always been with me.  Now I opened it and read some of the passages.  I skipped around, read a bit, skipped around some more.  With all hell breaking loose around me, it felt better to know I was part of something bigger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from &#8220;Here&#8217;s the faith in the &#8216;American Sniper&#8217; you won&#8217;t see in the film,&#8221; Sarah Pulliam Bailey, January 14, 2015; < https:\/\/www.upotia.com\/Personal\/tabid\/4621\/ctl\/NewsDetail\/mid\/9333\/id\/1220\/Def >.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Americans give the Bible lip-service but never crack it open. In the movie \u201cAmerican Sniper\u201d the hero, Chris Kyle, goes to church as a kid and keeps a Bible in the pocket next to his heart during combat. Another soldier challenges him &#8211; do you ever actually read it? Chris\u2019s fallen face shows that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[129,1004,2580,1956,2579,2578],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}