Amish Tragedy

[dgan]

Words cannot say what we all feel about this. (Although, that doesn't stop the 24 hour news media from trying...) It is enough to say that I wept openly hearing and reading of this unbelievable tragedy. Three of the girls that died were within a few months of my own daughter's age.

The only positive one could take from this is that it is in the past. The very recent past, yes, but the shooter is dead and the spiritual and emotional rebuilding can begin.

Until I saw this...I absolutely could not believe it. We have a similar "church" here in Wisconsin that pulls the same disgusting stunts harassing military funerals, but this is unfathomable. I don't know who Mr. Gallagher is and I've never heard his radio show, but he is my new hero.

[twyrch]

That's the most horrible and disgusting thing I think I've ever read. It makes me wonder how much longer God will look down on us and allow this kind of crap to take place before he says, "Alright! Enough's, enough! Jesus... go get our people out of there and send the rest to Hell. I have a new Jerusalem and new Earth to create."

[silversparrow]

Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.

[Child of Immanuel]

I didn't see an earlier story... so can someone tell me why a shooting has turned into an anti-gay protest?

[Daae]

That is unbelivable. As if those people hadn't been through enough, now these wack-jobs are... There are words I would like to be using right now but, in the words of Auntie Em, being a Christian woman I can't say it. The shooting really hit my community hard, since we're only a couple of hours away and have a good sized Amish population here. And my family and I used to live in the Lancaster area, so this has been kind of unnerving.

I really don't know what connection those *explenitive deleted* are making with the deaths of those little girls and anti-gay protesting. It's utterly ridiculous.

On a happier note, we had two Amish families come in and speak at my church on Sunday, and they told us that one of the girls who had been shot (and caught pnemonia) had been declared brain dead and was sent home because there was nothing the doctors could do. Well, while her family and friends were praying for her she began to blink and cough, meaning she was no longer brain dead and, as they found out later, her pnemonia had been completely cured. This was all after the doctors had sent her home to die.

[Dred]

Oh wow. There is a silver lining to this cloud. I'm so happy that little girl is doing better. The healing power of prayer at work.

[dgan]

childofimmanuel said:

I didn't see an earlier story... so can someone tell me why a shooting has turned into an anti-gay protest?

I'm not sure anyone can explain this craziness. But I'll give you the background.

There is this "church" (there are more like it, but this is the one that gets most of the publicity) that pickets military funerals, yelling at the family and attendees that the soldier deserved to die for defending America. They believe America is evil because it allows homosexuality.

Then, after the poor Amish community suffers the reality of their innocent little girls being brutally executed by some deranged monster, this "church" decides to fly out to Pennsylvania to do the same type of protest at the Amish funerals. Apparently contending that the girls deserved to die because they live in America, or some such incomprehensible nonsense.

Thankfully, this radio guy essentially makes a deal with the devil, and agrees to give them an hour of complete control over his radio show if they sign a contract not to go to the Amish funerals.

I still can't fathom it.

(On a side note, the grand institution known as the ACLU has defended and continues to defend this "church's" right to free speech. Only in America...)

[Dred]

I really don't see how they can call themselves a church and try to speak based on the bible when they are really promoting hatred. That is completely against what Christ was urging everyone towards.