You are from here or there. You are Christian, Jewish, Pagan...whatever. You are a democrat or a republican. Black, white, red, yellow or orange.
Who cares.
The sky above your home is the same sky above my home.
The stars outside at night are the same stars that I see.
The grass is green where you live and also where I live.
You cut your finger, it bleeds red...so does mine.
It is time for some people to just shut up...sit down and think.
A man was killed the other day in front of others. No-one would have cared if the victim had not been in the news before for his career choice.
But that is what everyone is picking apart and hurling insults at each other about. Comments are being brought in about another's personal believe and that no-one else has a right to their opinion.
Now if the victim was just a man who was never on the news, worked as a salesclerk but had made a comment he agreed with late abortions, and some nutjob heard him say it and decided he was going to rid the world of this man...would anyone care? Would the media care?
Am I making sense? Probably not clear enough. But I am hoping others will see what I am trying to point out.
A man murdered another man.
Let his family and friends mourn their lost.
End of discussion.
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Comments: 31
I couldn't agree more. Thanks for this.
Your welcome.... :OP
Amen !
and more.
I agree. However, what bothers me is that in ALL of these posts, comments, etc. NOT ONE PERSON has mentioned the rest of the congregation that witnessed a cold blooded murder. I don't care if it was a loon off of the street and just shot him at random, these people have been terrorized and traumatized by this event. There are going to be people, children in particular, who are going to have nightmares, who are going to need therapy. Yet no one seems to care about those people. I don't understand, if it had been a kid at school or a guy at an office, there would be demands for social workers and therapists. Because this man was a controversial person, the other victims are forgotten.
Huggles Nellie. Sorry about that, I'm just tired of hearing about how either he was a monster and got what he deserved or he was just a guy who was murdered by a fanatic. Either of those are true, depending on your POV, but that isn't EVERYTHING.
I perfectly understand Liz. I had made that exact same comment a couple days back and got attacked per say for asking people to stop and think what this killing did to others that were actually there...and to the mans family. I hope those who witnessed get the care they need during this time.
I must have missed it, sorry. I was starting to feel like the only one who was thinking about the other people in the church.
Spot on my friend.
I think that too much is made of what someone thinks or believes.......I think there should be respect to any victims family, and many times that is not the case, it doesn't matter what he thoguh, or beleived, he was still a son, maybe a father, brother, uncle, friend to others and people forget that so many times.
Its not about religion its about respect, and respecting others.
Mooch
Too bad more people don't realize that Mooch.
... right on!
I was shocked last night when on the news programs, many were videotaped saying the the abortion doctor got what he deserved!
Absolutely grotesque.
murder is murder - just like anything else it will have its repercussions!
... either subliminally or physically ...
sorry state of affairs when people start dividing & monopolizing anything by fear & hatred & greed!
Not even safe in church anymore?
I seem to remember several people including young girls murdered in Church by people who where trying yo make a point. It was the American south in the 60s. And wasn't Martin Luther's father murdered in church ?
I ask again
What the hell is wrong with us ?
I don't care what his job was, no one deserves to be murdered.
Good for you, Nellie. I was thinking about this last night. I'm sick of this divisiveness. I'm sick of people waving flags of their countries, and all the nonsense that goes on over who's better than whom. We are all humans...we all live on this planet and our planet IS our home. Believe in a god or goddess or none at all...become a tailor or a tinker or a politician...be attracted to different or same sex...it makes no difference. We are born, we live and we all die. We can either seek peace and love, or war and hate.
Don't we all yearn for the same basic things? Love, friendship, health, fulfillment? Don't we all deserve clean water, good food, decent healthcare, work for our minds and hands, the ability to grow in spirit?
Every so often, something happens in my life that jolts me back to reality. I'm not saying I stray far, but it re-focuses me. My Rotary club raised money and pooled it with a couple of neighboring clubs to provide safe, clean water to a village in Guatemala last year. We also gave them indoor cookstoves that were vented and safe, and contained latrines. Up until then, they had to walk miles to cart in water, often unclean and unsafe; they had many illnesses and accidents due to cooking on open fires indoors; they had no bathroom facilities and their sewage was often exposed. One of the women in the village who is lucky enough to be able to write wrote us a Thank You letter from the entire village and within the letter were these thoughts:
- Now we can work more and give more to our children because we are not spending most of our days carting water up and down the mountainside;
- Now we feel better about ourselves and are happier because we can wash our clothes and ourselves more often;
- Now our children do better in school because they are not sick anymore from bad water and smoke and burns from the cooking fires;
- Now we look with pride on our community because our village is clean and free of sewage and we can focus on making better lives for us all.
Some small things, things we take for granted. We have no idea how much we can help each other, despite our differences..and those changes enrich all our lives. Why can't we focus on that with our neighbors here, as well as in foreign countries.
We need to all go into bankruptcy court and re-structure our minds. Thanks for this reminder.
Wonderfully said...and I love the bankruptcy remark. So true.
I've been doing that for years. I do some of my best thinking when I'm quietly sitting down...on the toilet.
I can't stop laughing Rob (you can always do this for me)...but in reality, I have come up with some of my best plots sitting on the pot.
I agree. A killing is a killing is a killing is a klling. And killing someone is bad.
i agree
Unless it's that evil insane man that I heard about on the radio this morning who raped and mutilated that 11 year old girl the other day. He hurt her so badly that she needed surgery....him the world can do without....he doesn't deserve the human being title. Tbe neighbors caught him and beat him up really bad before turning him over to the police. The world can do without him.
you got that right!