Church Member on the UU Reaction to Shooter


	Church Member on the UU Reaction to Shooter

dmegivern

7-30-2008 9:29 PM

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mental illness, hatred, like cho

dmegivern says:

It's unfortunate his mental illness had such concepts to grasp onto.

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him if he thought the shooter was going to Hell. Everybody started
chuckling in the crowd and the President said, “I don’t know what will
happen after he dies, but I do know that he has been living in his own
Hell for years.” And that was the true compassion of the Unitarian
Universalist Church - to show sympathy even for those who would harm
us. To love our enemies. It was a powerful example for those of us who
may not accept the divinity of Jesus that, at the very least, he was a
powerful teacher. This moment was not just Unitarianism at its best. It
was Christianity at its best.   <A href="http://themoderatevoice.com/society/mass-murder/21402/from-tennessee-valley-uuc-tomorrow-the-sun-will-come-out/">(More)</A> </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3ACFD6CF-5B0A-43AD-B810-BC688A93FBE4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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