Paul Ryan Criticized over "Thoughts and Prayers" Comment

[Secular Elf]

The platitudes regarding tragedies are indeed quite tiresome.  And a lot of people agree.

Thousands of people have attacked U.S. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan on Twitter after he asked for prayers in the Sutherland Springs, Texas church shooting. At least 20 people have been killed and at least 10 injured in the November 5, 2017 shooting. The suspect has been identified as 26 year old Devin Patrick Kelley. He was killed after a short chase.
Many people are lashing out on Twitter at Paul Ryan calling for gun control, not prayers. This is his Tweet followed by the heated responses.

 --http://www.mlive.com/news/us-world/index...itter.html

Ryan's response?:

“It’s disappointing, it’s sad, and this is what you’ll get from the far secular left. People who do not have faith don’t understand faith, I guess I’d have to say. And it is the right thing to do is to pray in moments like this, because you know what? Prayer works. And I know you believe that, and I believe that and when you hear the secular left doing this thing, it’s no wonder you have so much polarization and disunity in this country when people think like that.”

--http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/pa...b51181be67

Excuse me, but when religious people claim that their imaginary friend is so damn powerful that he, she, it can create an entire universe from nothing but does not do shit to protect his/her (hmmm...do gods have genitals?)/it's worshipers in his building of worship,  then I would have to say no, prayer does not work.

No, the disunity is not seculars' fault. You conservative religious theocratic Dominionist traitorous scumbags started the damn culture war!!

[Aegon]

Flaunting belief in God +1
Uniting his base against an "other" +1
Diverting attention away from the issue +1
Not having to address the cries for gun control +1

Somebody check Ryan's board, he might have BINGO.

[Brian37]

Thoughts and prayers work so well they prevented 6 million Jews from being gassed.

Thoughts and prayers work so well Martin Luther King Jr is still alive.

Thoughts and prayers work so well Polly Klass is still alive.

Thoughts and prayers worked so well Sandy Hook was prevented.

[brewer]

Bet he can't walk and chew gum at the same time either.

Fine Paul, pray. Then get off your collective asses and do something.

[The Grand Nudger]

It'll take the rest of the session to write and pass the Right to Pray for Families after Tragedies Act of 2017.  Sure, they'd -like- to do something about it, but they just wont have time, sorry, those are the rules, and rules are rules.

[Brian37]

Bet he can't walk and chew gum at the same time either.

Fine Paul, pray. Then get off your collective asses and do something.

To be fair, neither Paul Ryan, God, Allah, Yahweh, Buddha, Vishnu, nor Ayn Rand can walk and chew gum at the same time.

We as a species however CAN accept we are not a separate species.

[Minimalist]

Ryan is a pandering pile of shit.

[Brian37]

Ryan is a pandering pile of shit.

That is not news to the sane. 

He loves atheist Ayn Rand, "fuck you I got mine" economics. I could give one shit less she was an atheist, nor that a theist like him supports her horrible economics. Just as much as I hate other atheists thinking Che, who lead to Castro's communist Cuba was a good idea. Lots of atheists supported asshole Che too.

[GUBU]

Flaunting belief in God +1
Uniting his base against an "other" +1
Diverting attention away from the issue +1
Not having to address the cries for gun control +1

Somebody check Ryan's board, he might have BINGO.

Not quite, he needs to find some way to blame all this on furriners or niggers.

[Catholic_Lady]

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?