Senate Chaplain Barry Black's opening prayer:

[kpete]

"Lord, when babies die at a church school, it is time for us to move beyond thoughts and prayers. Remind our lawmakers of the words of ... Edmund Burke: 'All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.'"

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[panader0]

1. Well done Chaplain Black, except I would find it hard to call repub politicians "good people".

[Sky Jewels]

2. I wonder why his god caused or allowed this to happen in the first place.

It's clear that the deity is either evil, impotent or doesn't actually exist. I know which choice I think is the most likely -- #3. And more and more Americans are coming to the same conclusion.

[Farmer-Rick]

18. Yeah, all these prayers

And nothing ever comes of them.

Useless endeavor.

[Hekate]

19. It is said that people create gods in their own image. The gun-humpers' god is mean, nasty, vengeful

…and punitive, just like them. I don’t care what they call him — but Moloch might be better than Jesus because it would avoid confusion with Jimmy Carter’s Jesus.

[oregonjen]

3. So, because the killings happened at a Christian school, it's time to act?

What about the many public schools where this has happened???

[progressoid]

9. Agree. But to be fair they didn't do anything after the Sutherland Springs church shooting either or

the Vestavia Hills church shootings, or the Charleston church shooting or...

[tinymontgomery]

4. So only when it's a church school is it time to move

So only when it's a church school is it time to move beyond thoughts and prayers. All the other kids
didn't matter.

[sybylla]

15. Right, we see what they did there.

So much BS, but at least he's speaking it to power.

[Tanuki]

20. That's not fair. He made similar remarks after Sandy Hook.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?309976-9/senate-morning-prayer-connecticut-school-shooting

[icymist]

5. For decades when a school is shot up it's 'Thoughts and Prayers'

But now, a trans person shoots up a church school and it's the 'line in the sand' moment?!

[wendyb-NC]

6. Thank you, Chaplain Black

[HAB911]

7. All the mass shootings are because

God is not in our schools, allegedly. OOPS, if he wasn't in a Presbyterian church school, wtf was he?

[Midnight Writer]

8. Cue a Jim Jordan House Investigation into Chaplain Black.

[Delmette2.0]

10. Here's my question.

What happened to that young person to make her want to go back with a gun?

Perhaps we will never know.

[liberalla]

12. I've wondered that myself. What type of treatment did he receive to make

him feel the need to return?


... I may be way off base here, I know.

[LoisB]

11. When babies die at ANY school!

[liberalla]

13. Agreed.

[Hekate]

14. I hope we all understand the man's intention was to jolt these faux Christians into reality...

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But, apparently not.

So let me say bluntly what he could not because of him being a person with a clean mouth: “Get off your asses and stop the slaughter of the innocents, regardless of their or your race, creed, or color. And f*ck you all sideways if you fail to take meaningful action.”

By the way, who saw Ogles’ response to reporters’ queries about his unholy Christmas card?

He has no regrets because it was him with his family. And also, the reason the US has all these massacres and no other country does, is because we have so much freedom. And it’s too bad about the slaughter of innocents, but that is the price we pay for freedom.

May Ogles get everything he deserves.

[ShazzieB]

16. I definitely understand what he was trying to do,

It's just too bad he was talking to people who were incapable of hearing him, because they have brains the size of walnuts and hearts the size of raisins.

[Magoo48]

17. I can't help believe that in many countries general strikes would have ground everything to a stop

a dozen years ago.