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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"You can help by praying for these families and their loved ones, first and foremost."
"Everyone can do that... If you want a way to help, it's through prayer and it's through financial donations."
-Audrey Gossett Louis, district attorney in Sutherland Springs, Texas re: the shooting massacre.
I wonder what the people in the church were doing prior to getting shot. Praying, maybe?
SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)True Dough
(17,448 posts)but I get the sentiment you're expressing!
msongs
(67,580 posts)samnsara
(17,682 posts)...but some people find comfort in it when they have no other answers. as an atheist I'm not prone to praying but I offer my emotional support
gopiscrap
(23,770 posts)how about pushing for some serious gun control
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)Deliverance from idiots like that?
Iggo
(47,633 posts)Okay.
Got it.
Crunchy Frog
(26,729 posts)pintobean
(18,101 posts)True Dough
(17,448 posts)I'm curious.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Good thing no one attacked the victims.
I would however, guess that pretending victims had been attacked may also make one "look like shit."
Bengus81
(6,945 posts)lpbk2713
(42,790 posts)Their creditors at the hospitals and the funeral homes won't accept prayers.
True Dough
(17,448 posts)shouldn't be overlooked. But the "prayers first and foremost"???
What bit of good does that do?
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