TRAGEDY AND THE EXTERMIST RESPONSE

I AM DONE!!  Really, today our country suffered yet another grave tragedy and loss of life and I have to get on here and read the hypocritical bigoted posts from those who want to use this disaster as a means of promoting their severely warped sense of religion.  An eight year old child and two adults were killed in this horrendous event, while countless others have suffered serious and critical injuries.  Instead of just calling for prayer for those affected by the events of the day, the religious extreme has decided to blame everything from "GOD needs to be out back in schools" to "GOD sent the Boston Marathon Bombs to punish Massachusetts for passing the sin of same-sex marriage".  Are these nut jobs serious with this holier than thou hypocrisy?  Do they genuinely believe that GOD would kill an innocent child because the state passed CIVIL legislation regarding same-sex marriage?  This tragedy is another in a long line of tragedies affecting our country, and the crazies have once again proven that they will leave nothing to pass without finding a way to lay "blame" on innocent people. 

Can you seriously support your stance that "if GOD were in our schools" we would not be suffering widespread attacks on our schools?  I think your rationale is flawed. 

The GOD I serve, my lord and savior Jesus Christ said, "Let the children come to me" Matthew 19:14. 

Nowhere in the Bible does it say, "I will punish young innocent children when the church decided to judge others".  Can you show me where, in your warped translation of the Bible, it states that children will pay for the sins of their parents? 

Ezekiel 18:20 says, "The one who sins is the one who will die. The child will not share the guilt of the parent, nor will the parent share the guilt of the child. The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them."

How dare we allow such tragedies to be made more severe by the constant barrage of the "blame game" of these warped religious extremists.  I am a school teacher, I teach second graders who are 8 years old.  I pray every day, after we recite the Pledge of Allegiance and our school creed, during our daily moment of silence.  GOD is in school.  As long as we have breath in our lungs, prayer will be uttered in our classrooms, and GOD will be ever present within the doors of our educational institutions. 

It is time for our country's citizens to stop looking for someone some belief to blame for tragic events.  It is time we lean on GOD in prayer, and seek the truth through legal means to find the perpetrators of such events and bring them to legal justice.  It is not our place to persecute for the Lord.  GOD will judge all in the final days and then the job will be done. 

 "Do not judge, or you too will be judged." Matthew 7:1

Until that time, we must return to loving one another, as commanded, and stop judging our fellow man in order to turn and blame their indiscretions for our nation's tragedies.

"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” John 13:34-35