To my Christian friends:

[liberalhistorian]

16. I am a Christian and a seminary

student (although, since it's a liberal, progressive, social-justice-oriented, ecumenical seminary that also accepts atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, Muslims, Jews, etc., I've been told more than once by my more conservative brethren that it's not a "real" seminary-ya, whatever, pal) and I've been posting these very sentiments all last night and today on FB. I am SICK TO DEATH (pun intended) of those who post candles and "prayers" for the victims, but do nothing all but that, just wring their hands and pray, and get upset when someone actually wants to talk about how to prevent this shit, calling it an "offense to freedom." Really? Freedom? Whose freedom? The freedom of people to enter public places and spew it with sixty rounds of bullets per second? What about OUR freedom to be free from the constant fear of such shit?

I found it really telling that many of them were the first to post shit about not overreacting and taking away their precious guns, instead of on the human cost of such "freedom." Jesus would be really interested in such fucked-up priorities. Where the hell in the bible does it say we all have the freedom to have as many guns as we want, however we want, wherever we want, the human collateral damage be damned? NO FUCKING WHERE.

And don't even get me started on the fucking idiots who spout the shit about "God's not allowed in schools now, so of course this will happen. God's not allowed in gubmint, so that's why." What an incredible fucking insult to the victims, their families, and the God they claim they believe in.