I would prefer to be shot in a first class trauma center, if I had to choose.
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Off topic but, I recently visited the Newseum in DC and they have key historical papers stored there for viewing and I was struck by how a British paper announcing the American revolution did so without header type. No headlines. No fanfare. Just a page full of microtext that needed a magnifying glass to read.
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WELL THANK CHRIST FOR GOD!!!
I can’t even…
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Or a fatted one.
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Or a golden one!
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If your comparing it to getting shot at a Walmart or a School, your going to choose church? If God is everywhere then it shouldn’t matter, But, I think this messed up religion for a few folks this Sunday. So you being murdered, closer to your savior, might be a real downer for the guy in the next pew. If you really wanted to be “Closer” you should have suggested that being shot on a plane would get you closer to God. Who would think or do such a thing. But talking about, “Well if you have to be mass murdered this would be the place. See a silver lining. That’s why I’m good at my job.” And to think I’ve never watched your comedy program Annusley. Well I’m definitely going to tune you out now.
He didn’t dress, speak or act like a capitalist. He healed the sick and fed the poor. He preached outdoors and ransacked the temple when it was turned into a den of thieves, He accepted and forgave everyone regardless of there difference or transgression. I think you have an argument.
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That’s the defining phrase of her ramble, the noncontent of her empty brainpan revealed. If I were to title this horror-story-within-a-nightmare: “Let’s Keep It Positive.” Oh wait, even better, got it: “Keep On The Sunny Side.” That’s even a hymn.
She’s basically got fingers in ears la-la-la-ing. I wish I could feel sorry for her but NOPE. Feel sorry for them people that got shot, tho. Even in church.
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The most appropriate might be “always look on the bright side of life” from The Life of Brian.
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Maybe they hate themselves?
@GulliverFoyle Meanwhile, in Purgatory…
A question that has been asked for thousands of years.
…and frequently answered with appalling violence.
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Mmmmmm. This is where things start to fall down for me. What got me going was the wealth and opulence I saw in Catholic churches. Then the idea of asking for forgiveness, as if the church was a portal that allowed a god to hear us. Because under the teachings, we shouldn’t do the bad thing in the first place, and also shouldn’t rely on a priest to communicate forgiveness as an agent of God, nor should an ecclesiastical hierarchy hold the keys to forgiveness.
It’s a glitch. Because if everyone actually believed, and tried properly to follow the word, the world would be a better place. Much, much, much better. But religions always get thwarted by greedy people.
Sorry 44, not having a go, just … extemporising.
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I was raised Catholic, and I don’t remember much in the way of wealth and opulence; I do remember quite a lot of cheap, sentimental, and rather spooky tat.
Mind you, Catholicism was historically illegal for a good length of time in my homeland, so my experience may not be typical.
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Err …
And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves."
— Matthew 21:12–13
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This is known as cherrypicking. There are plenty of counterexamples of Jesus criticising the Pharisees and telling the disciples to pray in small groups. Jesus was extremely clear on the separation of God and Money and this provided him with a very public example. But his attitude to the Temple as an institution isn’t exactly reverential. He remarks at one point that if God wanted, he could destroy it and rebuild it in a few days.
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I read somewhere (possibly in that “Authoritarians” book?) that being brought up as a fundamentalist causes some high proportion of people to reject religion completely, to the point where, without a steady supply of converts, more extreme churches would / will simply self-destruct in a relatively short time.
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For every Jesus, there is an equal and opposite Jesus.
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Anyway, this woman’s religious wittering doesn’t particularly exercise me. She’s just trying to come up with comforting platitudes, because she has to say something about an upsetting situation and can’t say anything that will make it better.
Of course, she wouldn’t be in that situation, except that her job is to go on TV and persuade us that epidemic mass murder isn’t important.
The moral is, if you’ve dedicated the broad arc of your life to evil, then your attempts to be a Christian about the details may end up sounding batshit insane.
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Haha! I was assuming the scenario included one being alive at the time 
More like Jill Stein.
Most of us who claim to follow Jesus’ teachings would still view him as a radical.
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Well, we can all pray for that outcome.
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