... that some people are looking at the shootings in Virginia and saying "That's what they get for taking forced prayer out of schools!"
I never knew the argument was about forced prayer in college anyway, I thought it was about forcing public school kids to pray.
2007-04-16 11:56:26 · 46 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm pretty sure that crimes like this happened before, during and after prayers in or out of school.
Heck, during Prohibition we were doing a lot of praying, a lot of drinking, and the distributors were all armed thugs competing with tommy guns, not in advertisements.
Most intelligent people will wait for the facts before forming an opinion. Others are so anxious to form an opinion that facts don't matter as much, and they're easy to recognize.
2007-04-16 12:09:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the religiously infect morons have no understanding of causation correlation. There is no evidence that correlates to taking prayer out and these shootings or anything else for that matter.
They are also ignorant when they say prayer was taken out of schools. By the time of the 62 court ruling very few if any public schools still had mandatory prayer time. In fact, as far back as 1850, most schools dropped the practice.
2007-04-16 14:27:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Girl Wonder,
Bad things happen whether or not prayer is absent or present because when sin entered the world so did death. It is VERY horrifying that all these people were shot and killed
My husband and I just prayed about the situation. People like to medicate a situation by using a poor choice of words to explain things like tragedy. Thank you for posting you are very upfront and honest and blunt and that is a good thing.
Peace be with you,
Encourager4God
2007-04-16 13:06:53 · answer #3 · answered by encourager4God 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's disgusting and sad. People tend to relate everything bad to the devil, or the absence of prayers and stuff like that. They talk about how taking out prayers did it, while the true causes are ignored and not dealt with.
2007-04-17 14:36:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, Im not really for forced prayer in public schools, but definitely that sort of comment is out of line. Id have to agree
2007-04-16 11:59:50 · answer #5 · answered by Mayonaise 6 · 8⤊ 0⤋
Allow the conservative power base to continue intentionally misreading and misusing the 2nd Amendment and nobody will have to "force" prayer anymore.
2007-04-18 10:32:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Extremely pathetic. People will use that as an excuse for blame. Forcing prayer is not the answer; it only turns people off.
2007-04-16 12:00:50 · answer #7 · answered by SB 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
For once, I have to agree with you. This isn't about taking prayer out of school. This is about one sick human being who, for whatever sad and sorry reason he may have had, chose to pick up a gun and take human lives.
To blame this tragedy on "taking prayer out of school" is about as ridiculous as logical fallacies ever get to be.
2007-04-16 12:03:38 · answer #8 · answered by Wolfeblayde 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Oh no. People are saying that?! That's terrible. I feel sorry for the families of these victims who have to listen to that kind of rhetoric. I'll bet that most of them were probably praying people themselves, based on statistics.
2007-04-16 12:10:10 · answer #9 · answered by Heron By The Sea 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
How disgusting is it that people are using the shooting as a platform for all kinds of agendas,including gun laws,saying Christians aren't doing enough to stop school shooting (!) ,and a myriad of other issues?
Maybe it's be better if we held off the politicizing of the even-that goes for everyone.
2007-04-16 12:01:45 · answer #10 · answered by Serena 5 · 6⤊ 1⤋