Women likely praying before being struck, killed

[theHandpuppet]

Damn, I feel bad for the family but these women were praying in the middle of the street, in the dark? Um... and the Lord was where while all this was going on? This is the kind of thing that simply makes me shake my head. Sad all the way around.

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/local/colerain/2014/10/14/colerain-accident-victims-pat-and-jessica-lutz-remembered/17257219/
The Cincinnati Enquirer
October 14, 2014
Women likely praying before being struck, killed
Jennie Key

Patricia Lutz and her daughter Jessica walked in the dusk Sunday evening near their home on Miami Trail Lane in Colerain Township. Patricia's husband of 42 years, Vince Lutz, was out for a jog...

...The women were struck from behind just before 7 p.m. as they walked on East Miami River Road near Old Colerain.

Vince said the family found some wet papers in the bushes near the accident scene the next day: a copy of the "Novena to the Virgin Mary, Untier of Knots."

"We believe Patty and Jess were praying during the walk," he said, and believes they have found "peace in the Lord."

MORE at link provided above.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. When my brain was being washed and rinsed by penguins in

catholic grade skull, a carload of some of our nuns crossed the highway and struck a semi head on. All died, including the innocent trucker. The T&V later reported that there was alcohol use by the nuns that seemed to contribute to the collision.

At my school, they were all shocked and saddened, and then they told us that the four were praying before the fatal collision. They said nothing about the blood alcohol levels.

Even at age 7, I began thinking. Which led to me asking, out loud, "Wait, how could you tell that they were praying, and if prayer was so powerful, why did the accident happen?"

I was forced to kneel on rice the rest of the afternoon. Which taught me a lot about religion, religious instruction and religious run schools.

[Curmudgeoness]

2. And you learned a lot about asking stupid questions,

didn't you? I would say that I am sorry that you were put through that punishment, but it might have been the best thing that happened to you. Life's lessons are unexpected.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

9. so questioning ridiculous statements that can never be proved is being stupid?

And here I go telling all of my clients that the only stupid question they have is the one that they do not ask.

[Curmudgeoness]

10. Sorry.

Forgot my smilie.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

11. not a problem,

especially when 75% of my comments are sarcastic.

[theHandpuppet]

3. Okay, explain the kneeling on rice thing to me

In my neck of the woods it was always an oar-sized piece of hardwood with holes drilled in it, forcefully smacked against one's bottom.

[trotsky]

4. The RCC has a long history of the glorification of suffering.

That was one of the main complaints against "Mother" Teresa. She generally refused pain medication for the patients under her care, believing instead that their pain was holy because it brought them closer to understanding Jesus' suffering.

[theHandpuppet]

5. That's just some kind of sick

Boggles the rational mind.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. The first minute is ok

The second one, you begin to notice. After 15, you are in agony. And you have to kneel there for an hour.

Try it. With dry rice.

[theHandpuppet]

7. Good grief.

What a nasty thing to do to someone, especially a kid.

[Iggo]

8. Yep, the torture of children is a nasty thing.