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Ecumenist

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4. Hello, Behind the Aegis....I understand your pain at seeing this & the horror it engenders BUT

Reply to Behind the Aegis (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 2, 2014, 01:58 AM

Mar 2014

sometimes, people need to see the true horror of man's inhumanity to man in order to understand why it's so important to stop this. For at least 120 years, there have been innumerable photos of my people after being lynched, hanging from trees. it was only after the world saw this and understood the horrific effect of hatred and terrorism visited against my people, that things began to change. Think of the photographic records of the indecribable hell of the Holocaust and what they do to invalidate the LIES of the deniers? I want you to know that I understand but it does serve a purpose.

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Shocking: Gay man burned alive by anti-homosexual mob in Uganda (Viewer Discretion) [View all] eridani Mar 2014 OP

I have no thoughts on this. Only emotion. Gravitycollapse Mar 2014 #1

Alert came within minutes of your posting. Behind the Aegis Mar 2014 #2

Hello, Behind the Aegis....I understand your pain at seeing this & the horror it engenders BUT Ecumenist Mar 2014 #4

Then how do you explain the photo's use for another story a year ago jberryhill Mar 2014 #5

Okay, first of all, I DIDN'T POST THIS PHOTO and didn't know that it was used for another Ecumenist Mar 2014 #8

I wasn't the alerter, I was juror #3. Behind the Aegis Mar 2014 #7

Please accept my apology for mistakenly assuming that you were the alerter. Ecumenist Mar 2014 #9

Not at all a problem! Behind the Aegis Mar 2014 #11

Good, I'm glad that you feel like this because I find it interesting that people seem to get stuck Ecumenist Mar 2014 #12

Same photo was published last year - vigilante justice in Kenya slum: jsr Mar 2014 #3

The far rightwing "religious" HATE of gay people burns with the fury of 10,000 supernovas, blkmusclmachine Mar 2014 #6

AMEN and I agree with you completely. I speak as a DISGUSTED Christian & who's bloody Ecumenist Mar 2014 #10