Amish school shooting
The shooting at a Pennsylvania Amish school is the most maniacal act of insanity I have ever seen. Amish children were brutally executed for a reason that will never be known. A peaceful community was suddenly ravaged by violence.
This is becoming a divided, dark, godless country because of the American Civil Liberties Union, lawyers and politicians who are more concerned for their careers than the moral fiber of our nation’s people, particularly schoolchildren. Why are we catering to a handful of atheists? (emphasis here is mine.)
I am proud to live among the Missouri Amish. They are a generous, loving, family-oriented people who read and live the Bible. Their work ethic and morals are beyond reproach. We should learn from them.
Somewhere still in humanity is the innate desire to do good. Most intentions begin with an embryo of kindness and yet somehow, as we age and experience a bankrupt and corrupted society, good intentions go awry.
God is the most incredible power that any of us will ever experience — or not experience until it is too late.
This country was founded on the laws given to Moses. Let us remember: Eternity is forever.
Bryan Carmenati
Jamesport, Mo.
It started out okay, we all feel for the Amish, who haven't done a damned thing wrong. They are indeed in the world but not of it. And I make it a point to buy their organic produce at the Farmer's Market every Saturday - if they can live in the world and not be of it, they have my blessing, and I know they are not using my money to support war-making corporations, an important consideration right now.
The guy is from Jamesport, home to a large old-order Amish community about an hour and a half outside Kansas City. I understand the pain and anger are understandably greater there. But then he goes off the rails and blames the ACLU and generic "atheists" for the shooting.
Talk about a nonsequiter. What the hell do the ACLU and atheists have to do with a mass murder committed by a church-going conservative Christian who was home-schooled? If someone can connect these dots, will you please fill me in?
And will someone please remind this joker that his pleas to convert now! are about as welcome as ants at a picnic? He seems to think that the Founders intended a Kingdom on Earth, when they specifically separated Church and State. Where do these people go to school? I would have been so busted if I tried to argue some of the points these people attempt to make that I would have been left wondering what happened and why was I standing, arms outstretched holding a bible on each palm.
He should also review those laws of Moses he seems so fond of - I'm a Jew and there are 25 thousand of us in Kansas City - I'm sure he doesn't know any Jews, being from Jamesport, but if anyone were to ask us, we would all tell him difinitively that we do not want to go down that path. He knows not that of which he speaks so freely.
Bertrand Russell said it best. “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”
