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Permalink Reply by Tom Sarbeck on December 16, 2012 at 12:14am

Nina, your first words appear to say that Obama has ordered the targeting of children and first responders the way the shooter targeted the Connecticut school children.

You did indeed digress, but your final paragraph gives me hope.

One of the hellishly difficult things that politically active people have to do is to refrain from dumping our emotions in convenient places. Instead, we have to collect the energy our emotions give us and use it effectively. With practice, it becomes easier to do but we might look like mechanical people.

We have emotions, but dumping them would weaken our efforts.

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Added later, Nina.

Your words in the posts just above lead me to question my conclusion about hope.

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Permalink Reply by Arcus on December 16, 2012 at 11:38am

Must you drone on and on about the same subject..?

Next time, at least try to be a little bit original in your criticism. Like, American school children lighting candles for Pakistani drone victims:

 

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Permalink Reply by Marc Poulin on December 15, 2012 at 7:12am

We've been hearing about kids dying in Africa and in war torn countries for decades, we're numb to it. It's like watching a murder on a tv show, we just blink through it now. But when it happens in our own back yard in such a quiet little place at such a tragic time, it's different. 

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Permalink Reply by Kairan Nierde on December 15, 2012 at 2:05pm

You're right.  And our numbness is important.  It helps perpetuate the status quo.  Even what happens in our own backyard can be ignored.  I already ignore the drug violence in my city quite easily.  Every now and then something so heinous occurs that is jolts us out of our stupour.  Maybe people will react differently to this crime--to change things--but I remain skeptical. 

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Permalink Reply by Dale Headley on December 15, 2012 at 3:05pm

Bryan Fischer, on his Christian radio show, as well as Mike Huckabee on "Fox News," said that the reason the children were killed was that prayer is not allowed in schools - that God wreaked his vengeance by allowing these children to die.  Could this BE a stronger indictment of religion?  For that matter, could it be  stronger indictment of the callousness of Fischer and Huckabee?

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Permalink Reply by RobertPiano on December 15, 2012 at 3:16pm

+1...And also that makes the murderer god's prophet.

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Permalink Reply by Ed on December 15, 2012 at 10:39pm

Mike Huckabee, my former governor, is a stereotypical white conservative fundamentalist wacko. He has no valid answers to events like this. 

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Permalink Reply by Ron Humphrey on December 16, 2012 at 8:27am

Statements such as those made by Huckabee (and many others)  are callous in the extreme.  To believe what he apparently believes does indeed make the shooter the "scourge of god".  In Huckabee's view, this should elevate the shooter to sainthood. 

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Permalink Reply by Dale Headley on December 16, 2012 at 3:41pm

Indeed!  This is just one more piece of evidence that there is no such thing as an omnipotent, omniscient, OMNIBENEVOLENT God.  Let's hear it, Christians.  Explain again how YOUR GOD let this grotesque horror happen.  Was He just impotent to prevent it?  Or was He, like the Old Testament Yahweh, uncaring?    

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Permalink Reply by E.J. Solomon on December 16, 2012 at 9:12pm

I think they forget that Yawheh actually likes killing children. He had no problem doing it just to piss off Pharaoh and he sent the flood which wiped out a whole bunch of innocent children. I'm sure we could find other examples.

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Permalink Reply by Tom Pep on December 19, 2012 at 8:13am

Huckabee and Fischer should join with westboro baptist church, they pretty much believe and say the same thing.

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