RE: Thoughts and not prayers.
January 26, 2019 at 3:46 pm
(This post was last modified: January 26, 2019 at 3:49 pm by SteelCurtain.)
It's really not the idea of "thoughts and prayers" that's galling. It's the recitation of the phrase in lieu of the things you can actually do to help.
It's become particularly tiresome in America as the token response to the massive amount of gun violence. There are things conservatives can do that will be a lot more effective and helpful to victims than thoughts and prayers. How about vote to end the ban on researching the causes and predictive factors of gun violence in America? How about common sense gun laws that close loopholes wherein people who wouldn't otherwise be able to purchase a gun can?
This is why the phrase has become a lightning rod for derision. Social context matters. The phrase is tainted by the way it is used in a widespread sociopolitical context. It's not that every time someone says "thoughts and prayers" it's white hot liberal rage. I recently lost my beloved pupper, Tanner, and many of my religious friends and family members told me they were praying for me. I know what they mean---and there is nothing they can do, so let them have at it.
It's become particularly tiresome in America as the token response to the massive amount of gun violence. There are things conservatives can do that will be a lot more effective and helpful to victims than thoughts and prayers. How about vote to end the ban on researching the causes and predictive factors of gun violence in America? How about common sense gun laws that close loopholes wherein people who wouldn't otherwise be able to purchase a gun can?
This is why the phrase has become a lightning rod for derision. Social context matters. The phrase is tainted by the way it is used in a widespread sociopolitical context. It's not that every time someone says "thoughts and prayers" it's white hot liberal rage. I recently lost my beloved pupper, Tanner, and many of my religious friends and family members told me they were praying for me. I know what they mean---and there is nothing they can do, so let them have at it.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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