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conulyMost religious people, of any faith, are just fine of course. I always figure that if your beliefs help you be a better person or provide comfort then they're well worth having.
If, however, you're using your beliefs to claim that your god so hates abortion or lack of forced prayer in schools that he turned around and let a class of little kids die because he can't be bothered to care unless we adequately stroke his ego then your beliefs are NOT making you a better person, and far from providing comfort you're using them to vindictively hurt other people. The usual suspects saying these things lately are awful people and are getting far too much publicity. I, for one, will return to ignoring them henceforth.
On that note, today I looked at a photo gallery of the victims. The badly taken, out of focus pictures are even worse than the ones where you can see what the child looked like. The people taking those pictures never expected them to be used to this purpose. And every one of those children, no doubt, would have been ticked pink to see their pictures on the Internet.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/photo-galleries/2012/12/17/photos-newtown-shooting-victims/
Almost as bad as the first group of religious people are the ones like the commenter here, who blithely assume either that everybody shares their religion, or that everybody SHOULD and this is an appropriate venue to promote that.
"My prayers are with you, the people of Newtown, I know that because you have Jesus Christ in your hearts, that the pain of your loss will be more bearable. If it hadn't been for Him bearing me up when I lost my husband, I would not have been able to do it I won't try to lessen the pain that you do feel, but I know that He is with you. In love Lorral Weaver"
And the non-Christians mourning are chopped liver, I suppose. Most people aren't this tactless. Why her coreligionists, family, and friends haven't taken her aside and told her to not do this ever again, I don't know. I used as much restraint as I could in my reply, but I wish somebody else would tell her to her face this is not the right sort of comment to leave in response to tragedy.
If, however, you're using your beliefs to claim that your god so hates abortion or lack of forced prayer in schools that he turned around and let a class of little kids die because he can't be bothered to care unless we adequately stroke his ego then your beliefs are NOT making you a better person, and far from providing comfort you're using them to vindictively hurt other people. The usual suspects saying these things lately are awful people and are getting far too much publicity. I, for one, will return to ignoring them henceforth.
On that note, today I looked at a photo gallery of the victims. The badly taken, out of focus pictures are even worse than the ones where you can see what the child looked like. The people taking those pictures never expected them to be used to this purpose. And every one of those children, no doubt, would have been ticked pink to see their pictures on the Internet.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/photo-galleries/2012/12/17/photos-newtown-shooting-victims/
Almost as bad as the first group of religious people are the ones like the commenter here, who blithely assume either that everybody shares their religion, or that everybody SHOULD and this is an appropriate venue to promote that.
"My prayers are with you, the people of Newtown, I know that because you have Jesus Christ in your hearts, that the pain of your loss will be more bearable. If it hadn't been for Him bearing me up when I lost my husband, I would not have been able to do it I won't try to lessen the pain that you do feel, but I know that He is with you. In love Lorral Weaver"
And the non-Christians mourning are chopped liver, I suppose. Most people aren't this tactless. Why her coreligionists, family, and friends haven't taken her aside and told her to not do this ever again, I don't know. I used as much restraint as I could in my reply, but I wish somebody else would tell her to her face this is not the right sort of comment to leave in response to tragedy.
