about the reason being God not in the school (as opposed to the fact that establishment is not in the school) being the reason for the shootings.

I will never forget the time she once speculated that the reason mercury in fish is dangerous to humans was due to the fact that mercury contained a lot of lead. O was in college at the time, and had some friends who were majoring in fisheries. I believe one person was quoted as saying that she lost five IQ points just from having read the clipping I handed her.

If mere mortals can keep Him out of schools by passing a law. Tell me again why some worship Him?

...if god allows us free will, then god isn't going to punish anyone for keeping prayer out of school or anywhere else. That's their free choice and they'll presumably suffer for that choice by not being in god's grace.

On the other hand, if god does act when we do such things, punishing us for doing them, then isn't killing a bunch of kids a foolish way to get the message across? (wouldn't it be better for a gunman to walk into a church, shoot it up, and no one gets hit? thus proving if god is there one is defended?). god isn't there so kids die? By that logic, no church should have ever gone up in flames, been destroyed by storm or earthquake, and certainly no gunman should have ever been able to walk into one, let alone kill those in it.....

And most certainly no child who ever went to church and wore his/her cross to school ought to have been shot by anyone. They're carrying god with them, aren't they?

And I've never understood why anyone worships any god whose followers use such horrific and obscene scare tactics to get people to believe in him.

Yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Hood_shooting

Winner post.

and she obviously doesn't keep up with current events. It was, what, 3 years ago?

One would think a columnist would actually have to have some original thoughts and knowledge of what's happening in the country.

She's said some not to bright stuff in the past.

Notice to the NRA:
- Columbine had an armed guard on duty at the school
- Virginia Tech has their own police department
- The Fort Hood "massacre" took place on an army base.

I used that twice to successfully back down people who wanted to argue the banning of automatic weapons and that all we needed at Sandy Hook was one armed person.

myself; I do have a problem with a newspaper columnist saying stupid shit.

so to country cousin- glad I am in the big city and do not visit here

you get the idea that a general circulation newspaper does not or should not have any religious content? I know of dailies with religion columns and entire sections, not to mention news coverage that includes references to religion.

Why yes. Yes I have heard of those things.

What an effing maroon!

ETA: An editor writes sentences like this? "Deaths of the 20 children is especially hard." Yes, deaths is hard. Deaths is always hard.