John Fea: Imagine if the Christian right started offering mere ‘thoughts and prayers’ to end abortion

In the wake of the shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, conservative evangelicals are offering many thoughts and prayers.These mass shootings, they preach, reveal the moral degradation of our culture. Guns don't kill people; sinners kill people. This is not a political problem; it is a problem of the soul.Christian radio host Eric Metaxas, in a widely shared tweet, called for a spiritual revival to remedy a culture that has produced this spate of mass shootings.Robert Jeffress, the pas