Mass shooting in a school? Need God. Mass shooting in a church?....

[Chad32]

Mass shootings are horrible. When it happens in a school, theists want to talk about how we need god in the classrooms. But mass shootings happen at churches too. So what's the solution there? Obviously being a place of prayer, where the people worship god, does not prevent psychos from busting in and gunning people down. This is how you know the whole "get god back in the classroom" is just a political stunt, right? Because buildings where prayers and praise take the forefront are not magically protected, any more than any other building.

[vorlon13]

Oh my.

You're pointing that out ??

[Chad32]

I was watching a story about a shooting in a church, and it just hit me. I guess it is pretty obvious, but I felt like venting. Plus I so rarely actually start threads on this board anyway.

[Martian Mermaid]

Do people actually think that putting God back in the classroom will stop the shootings?

[vorlon13]

um . . .


Yes. Yes there are quite a few who do.

[AFTT47]

[vorlon13]

Indeed.

The town brothel would survive storm after storm unscathed, while church steeples were regularly blasted by God's terrible swift lightning.

Tough to argue the churches had God's favor when they kept burning down and the brothel remained standing.

[AFTT47]

Indeed.

The town brothel would survive storm after storm unscathed, while church steeples were regularly blasted by God's terrible swift lightning.

Tough to argue the churches had God's favor when they kept burning down and the brothel remained standing.

People have selective memory.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

New Years Eve, 2010, we had a tornado go through St. Louis. Only damage was to a church.

[Catholic_Lady]

I dont think having "God in schools" (whatever that means) would have changed anything.

The difference between school shootings and church shootings though, is that school shootings are usually done by one of the school's current students. For church shootings, it's usually an outsider.