Reply #4: Do not question our National Religion [View All]

Violence, Revenge and Punishment are the order of the day, and anyone who practices love and kindness and forgiveness and reconciliation is just marking themselves as weak, inviting further depradations by the forces of Evil and Chaos. Let's all get guns, because that will make us safer when anyone who steps out of line can be liable to catch a bullet. Let's try 8 year olds before they become Super Predators. We've locked up 1.5 million people and we're not safe yet? Then let's lock up 5 millions or 10 millions. That will make us safe.

We just had a story this last week in Portland. A man shot the man behind the counter in the course of the robbing the store was being sentenced, and he's going away for a long time. The family of the man behind the counter (who survived the shooting, but will be on a ventilator for the rest of his days) gave the shooter a Bible, and told him that they would be praying for him. They also urged the shooter to pray for the man he shot and his family. The local news folks truly didn't know what to make of the situation. They know what to do when a victim's family screams and hollers, but this caught them totally off guard.