My Comments
You've got to be kidding me.
The issue here is that 32 people were senselessly killed, the community needs support, many people of many faiths have offered that help and all those volunteers should be commended and encouraged to continue. I'm a Scientologist and am happy that members of my church have been there to lend a hand, as they have when disasters have befallen other areas of the world. But the religious affiliation of the volunteers is irrelevant - I'm more heartened just to see that people, of whatever faith, have been moved to help and are doing so. The point is that they showed up. For some posters, who don't appear to have been anywhere near the campus, to use this forum to regurgitate yap-yap and personal prejudices is just sad: is it possible they could have forgotten so quickly what happened at VT? Prejudices aren't important here, individual religious convictions aren't important - the lives and reactions of the people who lived through it are. Perhaps a little focus on what's really important - the lives of those affected - might be appropriate for at least a couple of days.
You've got to be kidding me.
The issue here is that 32 people were senselessly killed, the community needs support, many people of many faiths have offered that help and all those volunteers should be commended and encouraged to continue. I'm a Scientologist and am happy that members of my church have been there to lend a hand, as they have when disasters have befallen other areas of the world. But the religious affiliation of the volunteers is irrelevant - I'm more heartened just to see that people, of whatever faith, have been moved to help and are doing so. The point is that they showed up. For some posters, who don't appear to have been anywhere near the campus, to use this forum to regurgitate yap-yap and personal prejudices is just sad: is it possible they could have forgotten so quickly what happened at VT? Prejudices aren't important here, individual religious convictions aren't important - the lives and reactions of the people who lived through it are. Perhaps a little focus on what's really important - the lives of those affected - might be appropriate for at least a couple of days.
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You've got to be kidding me.
The issue here is that 32 people were senselessly killed, the community needs support, many people of many faiths have offered that help and all those volunteers should be commended and encouraged to continue. I'm a Scientologist and am happy that members of my church have been there to lend a hand, as they have when disasters have befallen other areas of the world. But the religious affiliation of the volunteers is irrelevant - I'm more heartened just to see that people, of whatever faith, have been moved to help and are doing so. The point is that they showed up. For some posters, who don't appear to have been anywhere near the campus, to use this forum to regurgitate yap-yap and personal prejudices is just sad: is it possible they could have forgotten so quickly what happened at VT? Prejudices aren't important here, individual religious convictions aren't important - the lives and reactions of the people who lived through it are. Perhaps a little focus on what's really important - the lives of those affected - might be appropriate for at least a couple of days.