(November 7, 2017 at 4:24 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: What's wrong with offering thoughts and prayers?
The people who died were all Christian, obviously. If it brings any sense of peace or comfort to their families to be offered prayers, then why would anyone have a problem with it?
OF COURSE their social norms bring them comfort, just like a Muslim finds comfort in Allah when a loved one dies. Just like a Jew finds comfort in claims of Yahweh when a Jewish person has a family member murdered.
I have a problem with BAD LOGIC, not human behavior. I watched my own mother die, RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME, as you know. Why do you think it should require Jesus, or Yahweh or Allah, to accept I felt as much pain as an theist who suffers a loss?
Yes this time they were all Christian, but a SIKH temple ended up in death as well a few years back? So because they were not Christian they didn't feel the same level of pain?
My mom did not die in a mass shooting, no, but from what I have seen in your "kudos" in my memorial thread, it seems to me you ALREADY have empathy for your fellow humans.
Nobody is questioning their right to mourn, WE ARE questioning the lack of getting anything done to reduce firearm death.
It should matter more to EVERYONE no matter the religious label, that less of this happens, not the platitudes.
