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School Prayer and School Shootings

Dec 02, 2003 4:22 PM
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All email forwards are dumb. But this one (via Baron Brian — I, thankfully, didn't receive it) takes the cake for sheer ignorance:
Dear God:

Why didn't you save the school children at . . .
Moses Lake, Washington 2/2/96
Bethel, Alaska 2/19/97
Pearl, Mississippi 10/1/97
West Paducah, Kentucky 12/1/97
Stamps, Arkansas 12/15/97
Jonesboro, Arkansas 3/24/98
Edinboro, Pennsylvania 4/24/98
Fayetteville, Tennessee 5/19/98
Springfield, Oregon 5/21/98
Richmond, Virginia 6/15/98
Littleton, Colorado 4/20/99
Taber, Alberta, Canada 5/28/99
Conyers, Georgia 5/20/99
Deming, New Mexico 11/19/99
Fort Gibson, Oklahoma 12/6/99
Santee, California 3/5/01 and
El Cajon, California 3/22/01 ?

Sincerely,
Concerned Student


Reply:

Dear Concerned Student:

I am not allowed in schools.

Sincerely,
God

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One of the school shooters (Paducah, #4 on the list above) murdered kids while they were in a prayer circle on school property ... so, where was their God then? Most certainly in school, literally and figuratively. Right there with the kids who got slaughtered as they worshipped Him before classes started.
Comments: School Prayer and School Shootings

Reading through various "non-Pagan" religious texts, I find this "God" to be quit a sadistic creature. Real or not, it's a very negative teaching, IMO.

Perhaps that's why a great deal of its followers, especially in the "Holy Land," are some truly awful people.

Posted by: O'dell on December 2, 2003 5:45 PM | permalink

You know what's funny...this infinite envisioning of "kindness" and this huge disappointment when scripture depicts "anger". And this want to ascribe this especially to monotheism. This is what will ruin a global society. This forwarding is awful for two aspects; "using" people's goodness to probably collect email addresses for spam, and being no better, aesthetically & morally spoken, than those sick who go and shoot children.

Posted by: mademoiselle a. on December 3, 2003 5:49 AM | permalink

I don't think that G-d has anything to do with this. People have free will and this was done by people.

Posted by: on December 3, 2003 12:48 PM | permalink

I agree. Whether you believe in God or not, he was in the same place he's always been (everywhere or nowhere, respectively).

Posted by: Joe Grossberg on December 3, 2003 2:06 PM | permalink

Yeah, in the end, that comes down to people - they wrote those texts. Of course the Torah says that Jews are the chosen ones, Jews wrote it ; of course the New Testament says that Jesus is the way, Christians wrote it ; of course the book of Mormon says that polygomy is ok, amongst other things, Joseph Smith wrote it.

It's time for people to wake up and realize all fo this. Surely if there was a God, it wouldn't have directed Jacob as it did in chapter 34 of Genesis.

Posted by: O'dell on December 3, 2003 6:59 PM | permalink

No more comments! Either someone has violated Godwin's Law, I'm tired of the discussion or, most likely, the ten-week window has closed. You can, however, contact me through email.