Nothing is more useless or more impotent than thoughts and prayers.
Every time I hear the "thoughts and prayers" line I find myself mentally rolling my eyes and then audibly sighing.
I also always find myself thinking about the Doors song with the shouted refrain, "You cannot petition the Lord with prayer!"
I'm sorry. I stopped being a believer a long, long time ago. I left the Catholic church at the age of 13 much to the surprise of my parents. My mother should have listened to the school librarian at Pauline Memorial (Colorado Springs) when she didn't want to allow me to check out two books--a lurid biography of Torquemada and a history of the Inquisition. It was only a matter of time after that.
Even within the dogma of Catholicism we were always reminded that while prayer is required we shouldn't expect divine intervention (except, of course, when the occasional saint was involved) in our individual affairs. Dear God, God is much too busy for that...
Thoughts and prayers is the big blow off. The people that say this are shining us all on. Because they don't want to confront one simple thing. The United States has more random mass shootings than all of the rest of the world put together. And it's not going to stop because those folks that are shining you on? Well, they are adamantly opposed to any form of gun control because their reasoning minds have long been hollowed out by the right wing echo chamber. Guns, especially military style assault rifles, have turned into some sort of twisted raison d etre.
Thoughts and prayers my ass people.
When do we eliminate this peculiar tool of mass murder from our society? When is enough going to be enough?
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