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SheilaT

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9. That's because no shootings of any kind ever occurred before religion

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Thu Nov 22, 2012, 07:12 PM

Nov 2012

and prayer were taken out of the schools.

Yeah, right. Read the book Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder. It's about her husband's childhood in northern New York State in the 1860's. The big kids at the school always beat up the teachers. Sometimes badly enough that the teachers died.

So okay, that's not a shooting, but school violence has been around, I'm sorry to say, for a very long time, and has nothing to do with prayer or no prayer in school.

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THIS anti atheist, anti liberal comment gets 100+ likes? [View all] alp227 Nov 2012 OP

Well, as an atheist, I know I can't wait to wage war against Xmas this year! nt ZombieHorde Nov 2012 #1

I'm going one step further and will tattoo Christians with coalition_unwilling Nov 2012 #7

Maybe they're liking it for its stupidity. Drunken Irishman Nov 2012 #2

don't recall any atheist charge to replace superstition with condoms nt msongs Nov 2012 #3

My first week training at the blood center was when the VA Tech shooting happened. brewens Nov 2012 #4

Yeah it has nothing to do with the fact that a 15 year old SomethingFishy Nov 2012 #5

I'm 41. I grew up in the south. At 15 many of my friends owned guns. Edweird Nov 2012 #10

I have no fear of guns, unless they are in the hands of a 15 year old SomethingFishy Nov 2012 #11

Sounds like we agree for the most part. Edweird Nov 2012 #13

EXCELLENT post Berserker Nov 2012 #14

Logic is an almost entirely unknown quality amongst some big cohorts, TTE, "the shooter patrice Nov 2012 #6

Religious screwballs are all over the place Warpy Nov 2012 #8

That's because no shootings of any kind ever occurred before religion SheilaT Nov 2012 #9

I like what WZard said! n/t Lady Freedom Returns Nov 2012 #12