That's pro-life, isn't it?

Won't say where but ....can't wait for plane out later this week. Thank you Egberto.
Yeah This > For those with little understanding of and less regard for the Christian faith, there may be no greater image of prayer’s futility than Christians being gunned down mid-supplication. But for those familiar with the Bible’s promises concerning prayer and violence, nothing could be further from the truth. When those saints of First Baptist Church were murdered yesterday, God wasn’t ignoring their prayers. He was answering them.

Sounds like he took stuff I heard as a child in church and twisted it so he could claim gun control would restrict God's acting for the good of His children.

Yes.

they weren't saints...they were people attempting to live their lives

Second: No, they weren't praying to be murdered by a nut job.

Everything from suicide bombings, to Civil War-era frontal assaults directly into massed fire, to cults that commit mass suicide to “move on.”

And say that concern regarding an afterlife has improved the behavior of many individuals throughout history. Religion has given people something 'bigger than themselves' to believe in, and helped to organize and shape society throughout the ages. Not everybody needs religion to give them purpose, but some people do and it can greatly improve their lives.

If it brings comfort to the victims of this church shooting then what's so terrible about it? Is it better to tell them "oh sorry, your loved ones are dead, there's no heaven, and they're just gonna feed the worms"?

It can give much comfort. I’m in agreement with you there.

My issues with organized religion stem from the exclusivity each one claims. We’re now, once again, involved in an endless conflict in the Middle East with clear religious overtones, a case of, “who’s god is better, stronger, truer: the Christian God of the West, or Allah?

And for too many, belief in an afterlife makes them terrible stewards of the planet, since, for them, it’s merely a way station, provided by God to consume. No need to conserve or worry about climate change, God will provide, and heal the Earth.

Most organized religion relegates women to second-class status.

Some believers practice a judgemental spiritual one-upmanship: “Well, I’m saved, but you can do what you want. NEVER QUESTION GOD’S WILL, or you’ll go to hell, unless you have Jesus, like I do.”

Religion is often in conflict with science, as if the brains that were granted us should be used only for worshipping God the Father. My wife was once accused of “worshipping Darwin” by a “good Christian.”

Finally, evangelical Christianity in America has involved itself in the worldly arena of politics, and is decidedly conservative. This is where the greatest hypocrisy runs unfettered: As recorded, Jesus was a radical, a revolutionary, a bringer of change— more akin to Gandhi and Martin Luther King than Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell. But evangelicals predominantly support tRump, a genuinely hateful human being and pathological liar who has no moral underpinning, and who routinely insults and belittles weaker people. His thoughts and deeds are pretty far from what Jesus taught.

While religion “can greatly improve their lives,” believers can also wield their faith as a weapon, which they’ve done for centuries.