I received an e-mail today...

[TN al]

...the one where the child asks God why He would allow the school shootings of the last eight years or so and God answers that He is not allowed in schools.

This is wrong on so many levels. First of all the senders of these e-mails are using these tragedies to tell what is essentially a pun. Secondly by God's response the senders are also acknowledging that God is below man if man can make a rule that God has to obey. And finally the response is just plain wrong since God is not barred from any school I have ever been in. I hate to hate people but I sure hate some of the things that people do. The whole thing is motivated by ignorance.

[liberaliraqvet26]

1. does this surprise you?

you must live in massachusetts, i hear this all the time here in freeperland

[napi21]

5. Yep, I live in freeperland too. I didn't hear them saying this kind

of stuff when that poor woman killed all her kids out in Tx. cause she thought she was saving them! Or when that lady in SC pushed her car into the lake with her two kids strapped inside!

If I remember right, the one in TX was a VERY religious person as was her husband!

I don't recall the real story about the lady in SC, but I lived in that State, and where she did this was just about 40 miles south of us. If she wasn't religious, she had to pretend she was!

Real Christians believe that God is everywhere, and you just have to listen to him.

[JRob]

2. I'm not surprized...

Religion has used guilt, fear and doubt for centuries to herd the flock.

[Dr Fate]

3. Not true. One of the school shootings was at a prayer circle.

Dec. 1, 1997
West Paducah, Ky. Three students killed, five wounded by Michael Carneal, 14, as they participated in a prayer circle at Heath High School.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777958.html

[Ariana Celeste]

6. Yep.. and each secondary school I've gone to

Jr. High- High school, had prayer circles, and Jesus clubs after school.

[Ariana Celeste]

4. I got one of those recently.

I think it's funny... I wonder if they ever stop to think, what sect of Christianity should be in schools. We all know that very few of them would approve a different sect. "Oh that's better than nothing." They would all fight amongst themselves as to which sect would have to be taught.
Maybe they don't bother even thinking ahead that far,

[ironman202]

7. God has been the leading cause of death for millenia

infact, he invented it. R U dying? Blame God.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. The best response

is to point out that God must not have been allowed in the homes of these kids shooting up schools. Schools don't teach morals and values; families do.

[Vogon_Glory]

9. Some Of These Doofuses Ignore The Obvious Fact That

Some of these right-wingers ignore the very obvious fact that as long as there are unprepared students facing tough tests, boys hoping to ask the girl of their dreams out on a date, girls asking the boy of their dreams to go out on a date, terrorized students facing a ring of bullies, student athletes trying to line up a play while unsure that they have the moves or the skills, and students from dysfunctional families hoping that the home fires are burning, there WILL be prayer in public school.

The right-wingers have shoved through legislation mandating student-led prayer circles on school grounds and turn around and say that G*d is EXCLUDED from schools?:wtf: