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NeoGreen

(4,030 posts)
Mon May 21, 2018, 10:37 AM May 2018

Hearts without God': Santa Fe shooting leaves reformers facing a religious wall

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/20/santa-fe-shooting-gun-reform-religion-christianity




Hearts without God’: Santa Fe shooting leaves reformers facing a religious wall
Amid the grief after the Parkland high school massacre, a powerful student activist movement emerged with stunning swiftness. It laid the foundation for nationwide demonstrations and a sustained push for gun law reform.

But in the wake of the fatal shooting of eight students and two teachers at a Texas high school on Friday, it seems doubtful that this highly conservative, deeply religious small town will generate similarly strident calls.

In a place of 13,000 residents and more than a dozen churches, the focus has been on prayers and siting the shooting in the context of a biblical battle between good and evil, rather than framing it as an avoidable consequence of policy failures in a country with a unique gun culture.
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Hearts without God': Santa Fe shooting leaves reformers facing a religious wall (Original Post) NeoGreen May 2018 OP
So, in the battle between Good and Evil... Girard442 May 2018 #1
More like the war between God and reason.... AJT May 2018 #2
God's a sadist allowing this to go on. nt Duppers May 2018 #3
God's always been a sadist. Mariana May 2018 #6
More evidence of an absent or non-existent deity. MineralMan May 2018 #4
"prayers and siting the shooting in the context of a biblical battle between good and evil" The Genealogist May 2018 #5

Girard442

(6,059 posts)
1. So, in the battle between Good and Evil...
Mon May 21, 2018, 10:43 AM
May 2018

...Good needs lots and lots of guns. Sounds to me like the battle was over a long time ago.

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
5. "prayers and siting the shooting in the context of a biblical battle between good and evil"
Mon May 21, 2018, 09:36 PM
May 2018

The issue couldn't possibly be dangerous people with free access to firearms?

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