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Some in our nation are just insane:
When The Saints Of First Baptist Church Were Murdered, God Was Answering Their Prayers
Sometimes, God's will is done by allowing temporal evil to be the means through which he delivers us from eternal evil.
Prayers dont work. We need legislation. This has been many secular progressives mantra in response to recent mass shootings in America. On Sunday, after a gunman murdered more than 20 people during a church service in Sutherland Springs, Texas, some of them found proof of the powerlessness of prayer.
Via the federalist, link removed by request
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)I would expect better theology from a Lutheran pastor
malaise
(269,157 posts)You need legislation to remove assault weapons and these magazines that allow so many to die in minutes.
Praying after they are slaughtered, babbling rubbish like it's their gawd's will and spewing shit like more could be dead are exercises in stupidity.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,019 posts)currently at 37%. That is a shit load of insane.
HAB911
(8,914 posts)it took a lot more moderately insane to elect
Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)Again
demmiblue
(36,885 posts)HAB911
(8,914 posts)demmiblue
(36,885 posts)If you want to directly link to right-wing sources... .
HAB911
(8,914 posts)not to put head in sand. I can't make fun of religionists if I ignore them!
demmiblue
(36,885 posts)Meh...
HAB911
(8,914 posts)demmiblue
(36,885 posts)HAB911
(8,914 posts)3catwoman3
(24,045 posts)...through which he delivers us from eternal evil."
Oh, BULLSHIT!!!
10 years ago, there was a car-truck collision in Rochester, NY, (my hometown) that resulted in the deaths of 5 young women who had just graduated from high school a few days before. IIRC, one was an only child, and her understandably devastated mother was quoted as saying, "I don't want her at God's table. I want her at MY table."
dembotoz
(16,832 posts)struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)I wonder if there's some sort of pattern there
treestar
(82,383 posts)with a theme along those lines. See later some of the victims might have done something sinful. So if they go now they can go to heaven.
Nonhlanhla
(2,074 posts)They're an offshoot of the Lutheran church, and super-conservative and looney. The mainstream Lutheran Church is a bastion of liberalism, especially compared to those loons. But those are always the folks who get quoted in the press, because they make the most outrageous remarks.
Sigh.
(I should add that although I am not Lutheran, I currently attend a Lutheran church when I do get to church, and they are anti-racist, anti-Trumpist, pro-gay, etc. And I have several Lutheran friends - same thing there. I just find these rightwing "christians" so exhausting.