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Thread: Church Shooting
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11-07-2017, 02:28 PM #37
Re: Church Shooting
Ok, well I'm saying on the basis of people (and in particular politicians) who publicly say they send their prayers after these events, but nothing more when it is a gun based mass killing. The view of those on the left is that it seems they (politicians) have a double standard depending on the method used to do the killing. And the way it looks from that point of view, is that politicians receiving donations from the NRA (which to those on the left, is like the boogeyman institution that Planned Parenthood is to the right), don't want to bring up gun law debates because they don't want to lose their NRA donations.
I'm saying what good does it do in the overall scheme of things? It does more good for the person saying it than the person who is dead, and the future people who will be dead in a similar incident.
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Re: Church Shooting
I wouldn't base my take off of anything a politician says or does
I guess it all depends on what you think the grand scheme of things is. But I don't think it's wrong for someone to pray for God to comfort those affected and pray/hope the souls that have departed are in heaven.
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11-07-2017, 03:07 PM #39
Re: Church Shooting
There are indeed much better people and places to find as moral arbiters than politicians. The only worse people I can think of are people in real estate, but that's because I work in real estate.
I don't pretend to know what it all means, so I'm all for questioning all of it. And I think as long as your heart is in the right place and you aren't hurting people (or animals... except chickens... fuck them for being so delicious), it's all good, do what you want.
I just wanted to put a little perspective to the McKean quote.
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Re: Church Shooting
This is of course in response to all the people talking about sending prayers to the victims... like that's gonna help anything.
I think it's pretty clear, whether you believe in a creator or not, that God had his chance here and is pretty firmly not stepping in. I mean, if he can't be bothered to show up in defense of these people worshipping him when they were being shot, what are the odds he's gonna listen to Judy in Omaha's request?
Those are strong sentiments about the uselessness of the actions of people 'sending prayers'.
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11-07-2017, 04:17 PM #48
Re: Church Shooting
Do you not agree that this provides a background to the logic fueling the comment McKean made?
EDIT: I'll also add that in writing that, I tried to put my comedian hat on and construct it as a joke, since he's a comedian. Whether one finds it funny or not, is well up for debate.Last edited by OhThePossibilities; 11-07-2017 at 04:28 PM.
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