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Related: About this forumHearts without God': Santa Fe shooting leaves reformers facing a religious wall
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/20/santa-fe-shooting-gun-reform-religion-christianity
Hearts without God: Santa Fe shooting leaves reformers facing a religious wall
Amid the grief after the Parkland high school massacre, a powerful student activist movement emerged with stunning swiftness. It laid the foundation for nationwide demonstrations and a sustained push for gun law reform.
But in the wake of the fatal shooting of eight students and two teachers at a Texas high school on Friday, it seems doubtful that this highly conservative, deeply religious small town will generate similarly strident calls.
In a place of 13,000 residents and more than a dozen churches, the focus has been on prayers and siting the shooting in the context of a biblical battle between good and evil, rather than framing it as an avoidable consequence of policy failures in a country with a unique gun culture.
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Hearts without God': Santa Fe shooting leaves reformers facing a religious wall (Original Post)
NeoGreen
May 2018
OP
"prayers and siting the shooting in the context of a biblical battle between good and evil"
The Genealogist
May 2018
#5
Girard442
(6,059 posts)1. So, in the battle between Good and Evil...
...Good needs lots and lots of guns. Sounds to me like the battle was over a long time ago.
AJT
(5,240 posts)2. More like the war between God and reason....
Duppers
(28,094 posts)3. God's a sadist allowing this to go on. nt
Mariana
(14,849 posts)6. God's always been a sadist.
Any reading of world history makes that very clear.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)4. More evidence of an absent or non-existent deity.
So it seems to me.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)5. "prayers and siting the shooting in the context of a biblical battle between good and evil"
The issue couldn't possibly be dangerous people with free access to firearms?