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Duppers

(28,402 posts) Tue Mar 28, 2023, 02:36 PM Mar 2023

"Thoughts and prayers do not stop these horrors."

I agree.

Rhetorical question: Then what can they do?

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"Thoughts and prayers do not stop these horrors." (Original Post) Duppers Mar 2023 OP

Slacktivism Warpy Mar 2023 #1

praying for dead victims is a passive aggressive religious statement GenXer47 Mar 2023 #2

IMO, they want to use school shootings as a way to drive christian school mandates. Thomas Hurt Mar 2023 #3

Warpy

(113,844 posts)

1. Slacktivism

Reply to Duppers (Original post)

Tue Mar 28, 2023, 03:09 PM

Mar 2023

The people sparing a thought or mumbling a paryer are helping themselves feel better about doing nothing to stop the problem.

GenXer47

(1,204 posts)

2. praying for dead victims is a passive aggressive religious statement

Reply to Duppers (Original post)

Tue Mar 28, 2023, 03:12 PM

Mar 2023

They're dead already. What is there to pray for?
So what they're really doing is using someone's dead child to push the idea of "going to heaven".
Disgusting people.

Thomas Hurt

(13,931 posts)

3. IMO, they want to use school shootings as a way to drive christian school mandates.

Reply to Duppers (Original post)

Tue Mar 28, 2023, 03:13 PM

Mar 2023

Using the argument of course, that this wouldn't be happening if people were raised in their version of christianity, ideology and education.

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