by Sandy » Tue Nov 07, 2017 10:25 pm
So here we are, another church shooting, 26 dead, most of them children, virtually half the congregation. It comes on the heels of another mass shooting not much more than a month ago, and yet another, in a church in Tennessee, just a little while before that. Many people in our country are still OK with doing nothing, and coming up with lame excuses to explain why we can't, even though none of what they say has anything to do with the constitutional right to bear arms. That's because there's no real belief in the sanctity of human life on their part, it wasn't their church, it wasn't their country music concert, it wasn't their city...
Maybe some people are starting to get the message. The NRA-funded gubernatorial candidate in the Virginia governor's race lost, by almost 10% of the vote. Was that a reaction to the shooting, coming so close to election day? Churches have already tightened up their ideology and theology to turn people away, now maybe people will be uneasy enough to simply avoid sitting in a pew or a chair in a church on Sunday because of what might happen to them. Or maybe they will be intimidated by the amateur gun toters out in the parking lot.