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In reply to the discussion: When was the last time a thought or a prayer stopped a bullet? [View all]NNadir
(33,516 posts)...democrat I feel great anger, certainly sometimes bordering, frankly, on hatred, for the idea of hiding immorality behind professions of faith.
Faith can be a very beautiful thing; I have seen it in my own family.
But indifference disguised as faith can be an ugly thing, a very dangerous thing.
Surely we must have compassion for the dead; and I believe that there are sometimes - much more rare - that we owe some measure of compassion for the killers.
We have mass shootings in this country as often now as we have new moons. I confess I do hate that. It's almost, as I noted elsewhere, as if our politicians have preprinted cards they hand out at every new moon reading "thoughts and prayers."
As you age, you may find that not all republicans are represented by the likes of Trump, nor, to be honest, are all Democrats sensible and kind and intelligent like, say, Obama.
You sound like a lovely person in just these brief words. I certainly hope we value people like yourself. Forgive us when we're at our worst.