RE: The implications of Obama's words at the Charleston shooting memorial.
April 8, 2021 at 3:57 pm
(This post was last modified: April 8, 2021 at 3:59 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You probably read him wrong on that one.
It's a fair bet that he's insisting that god did not approve of the killers actions and the killer would not get what he wanted. Gods will, as he put it there, was that we may finally snap open our eyes and see something. We didn't.
Quote:We do not know whether the killer of Reverend Pinckney and eight others knew all of this history, but he surely sensed the meaning of his violent act, an act that he imagined would incite fear and recrimination, violence and suspicion, an act that he presumed would deepen divisions that trace back to our nation's original sin.
Oh, but God works in mysterious ways.
God has different ideas.
Out of this terrible tragedy, God has visited grace upon us, for he has allowed us to see where we have been blind.
For too long, for too long, we have been blind to the unique mayhem that gun violence inflicts upon this nation.
It's a fair bet that he's insisting that god did not approve of the killers actions and the killer would not get what he wanted. Gods will, as he put it there, was that we may finally snap open our eyes and see something. We didn't.
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