{"id":26345,"date":"2025-02-05T14:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T19:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?p=26345"},"modified":"2025-02-05T14:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T19:02:13","slug":"powerful-prayer-act-after-ronald-reagans-attempted-assassination-offers-blueprint-to-americas-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2025\/02\/powerful-prayer-act-after-ronald-reagans-attempted-assassination-offers-blueprint-to-americas-healing","title":{"rendered":"Powerful Prayer Act After Ronald Reagan\u2019s Attempted Assassination Offers Blueprint to America\u2019s Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_26348\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26348\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2025\/02\/Ronald-Regan_credit-Public-Domain.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26348\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2025\/02\/Ronald-Regan_credit-Public-Domain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Public Domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Michael Reagan, who has long been a conservative commentator and speaker, understands the problems that can come from rampant incivility in culture.<\/p>\n<p>Reagan \u2014 son of late former President Ronald Reagan \u2014 recently lamented the negative elements surrounding the U.S. political stalemate, particularly the lack of pleasantries and people\u2019s overarching inability to handle themselves appropriately when their chosen candidate loses elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou may not agree with the person who\u2019s elected,\u201d he said on CBN News\u2019 \u201cNewsmakers\u201d podcast. \u201cI didn\u2019t agree with Biden. I wouldn\u2019t vote for Harris. I may not agree, but it doesn\u2019t mean that I think democracy was thrown in the waste paper basket because my person wasn\u2019t elected president of the United States \u2014 and that seems to be where we\u2019re going today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Reagan explain:<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/6EFfajTzLikfbFifuXLuq5?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He candidly spoke about negative changes that have evolved surrounding division in today\u2019s politics and the stunning ways in which things were once quite different.<\/p>\n<p>Reagan explained what happened after his father was shot outside the Washington Hilton in 1981 \u2014 a shocking event that could have claimed the former commander-in-chief\u2019s life. Right after, Reagan said one of his father\u2019s political rivals spent time in the hospital praying for the president.<\/p>\n<p>Tip O\u2019Neill, a Democrat who served as speaker of the House of Representatives from 1977 to 1987, was a real-life friend of Ronald Reagan, despite their policy differences \u2014 and he lived out that friendship in the moments after the potentially deadly scenario.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[My dad] is shot. He\u2019s in the hospital, he wakes up in the hospital [and] who is sitting in a chair with a rosary, praying for my father, and with my father?\u201d Michael Reagan rhetorically asked. \u201cTip O\u2019Neill. Would that happen today? Would that happen today in the America we live in? And the answer might be, \u2018No, it wouldn\u2019t happen today.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cHere is the man, Tip O\u2019Neill \u2014 the Catholic. Ronald Reagan \u2014 the Protestant, and Tip O\u2019Neill sitting in a chair with a rosary praying for the President of the United States who had been shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In light of the toxic divisiveness plaguing America today, Reagan said this scenario offers a lesson that can be gleaned from his father\u2019s life. Likewise, he said the former president\u2019s handling of dissension in his own family further offers guidance to people who struggle with political differences among loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had two children, Patti and Ron, who disagreed with him politically,\u201d Reagan said of his dad. \u201cIf they voted at all, voted against him. Patty was a peace and freedom person. Ron \u2014 [an] atheist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite intense political differences \u2014 and some public disagreements \u2014 all of the children were still welcome at the Thanksgiving dinner table, Reagan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Ronald Reagan could have two children who were so opposed to him they would lead marches on Washington, not become Christians, vote against him, or not vote at all, and they were still at the table for Thanksgiving dinner, we could learn a lot from that, and say, \u2018You know something, I\u2019m going to be more like Ronald Reagan, and those people I\u2019ve been disagreeing with \u2014 I\u2019m going to have at the dinner table,&#8217;\u201d Reagan said. \u201cStart healing the country the way Ronald Reagan would have healed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reagan spoke about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reagan.movie\/\">new feature film \u201cReagan,\u201d<\/a> which he believes captured his dad\u2019s true person, with stories about his father coming \u201calive\u201d throughout the movie. Learn more about that film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faithwire.com\/2024\/12\/10\/always-in-prayer-ronald-reagans-son-explains-fathers-beliefs-about-faith-and-church\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And listen to what else he had to say <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/6EFfajTzLikfbFifuXLuq5\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faithwire.com\/2024\/12\/05\/horror-what-ex-muslims-in-iraq-face-after-becoming-christians\/\"><em>This article originally appeared on CBN\u2019s Faithwire.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Reagan, who has long been a conservative commentator and speaker, understands the problems that can come from rampant incivility in culture. 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