Another mass shooting, and yet again we're told: don't politicize, pray

[mr blur]

ollowing Thursday night’s shooting in a Lafayette, Louisiana, movie theater, Governor Bobby Jindal told people: “What we can do now is pray.” He told them today that we can pray. He will tell them tomorrow that they can pray. And then next time this happens, he will tell them again. The repetition is inevitable because this is what happens when the first response and the only response is the last resort.

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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/25/mass-shooting-politicize-pray-lafayette

[skepticscott]

1. And of course, this is enabled by

the folk over in Religion who don't see any harm in appeals to some invented supernatural being whose existence can't even be demonstrated. They have endless rationalizations for the need for and value of "prayer" to which no one else is listening, even to the point of pretending that it's a helpful way of talking to oneself.

[olddots]

2. I pray that the people who pray get a clue

when in dought blame a ficticious entity.

[Binkie The Clown]

3. If god is all powerful...

Then god is clearly falling down on the job and needs to be fired. (Or at least put on double secret probation.)

Or to put it another way...

"Divine Master Plan" means every mass murder was planned by god.

[RussBLib]

4. during Obama's eulogy for Rev. Pinkney at the AME church in Charleston, S.C....

...Obama made reference to God "using" Dylann Roof (using evil) to accomplish something good (changing people's hearts? removing the Confederate flag?)

Which I think is totally fucked up. It just removes ALL personal responsibility from everyone. We are all nothing but pawns and automatons in some cheesy fucked up tragicomedy.

No, YOU didn't murder those Bible studiers. GOD made you murder those people to accomplish .... what?

(slow shake of the head)

[mountain grammy]

5. And bring teddy bears to the theater.. that always helps.

I'm sick of this shit.

[AtheistCrusader]

7. In fairness, teddy bears do much better than God.

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[mountain grammy]

8. Ha, good point!

[Curmudgeoness]

6. And on the news this evening,

a woman who was not shot said she is alive "by the grace of God".

I just want to scream at that woman that she is an idiot. A sanctimonious, self-centered idiot.

[NastyRiffraff]

9. Yeah, so god withheld his "grace"

from those who were shot, right?

I had a co-worker who after Sandy failed to hit our area and dumped on New Jersey instead say that her prayers to god kept the hurricane away. When I asked her if the people of New Jersey deserved god's lack of care for them, she said they must not have prayed hard enough. Some "loving" god!

[Curmudgeoness]

10. There is just nothing to say to that logic.

These people scare me.