What the **** are people "praying" for when it comes to Trayvon?

[dennis roadman]

i can respect that people want to find solace in some sort of higher power, especially because the immediately higher power, the us justice system, seems to have fallen short of putting a guilty man in prison

but this was posted on my facebook last night

The thing about being Christian, is that we don't have to understand to forgive, we just have to forgive...Zimmerman's path and fate is not in our hands, nor was it in the jurors'. Maybe this is his second chance to ask GOD for forgiveness, remember he welcomes all in his house!!!

naw breh, his fate was definitely to be decided by the jurors not your god

and if your god's house permits racist murderers then why you wanna be there anyway?

 

[the cac mamba]

Relgious people are do a hell of a lot more

elaborate on that

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

People are desperate for a way to put this behind them psychologically. They're so desperate that they'll reach for rationalizations like this in order to move on from the ordeal. It's a really trying even for anyone who was emotionally invested in it, so I don't really blame anyone for making even the most irrational reaches in order to get on with their lives. Now don't get me wrong, I know that Zimmerman is guilty and that Trayvon and his poor family got the shyt end of the stick, but people are going to struggle with this one way or another.

I might just let stuff like this slide with the hope that karma would claim Zimmerman in a poetic way in the end, but other than that, there's not much else that I can or would want to do.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

DOING things.

DOING.

THINGS.

HERE'S A THING YOU CAN DO, BROTHER! CHILL THE fukk OUT BEFORE YOU POP A BLOOD VESSEL, DUDE!

 

[AquaCityBoy]

If that's how people want to cope, let them.

Stop being a bytch.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

If that's how people want to cope, let them.

Stop being a bytch.

I've got nothing against coping...but thats not wht they're doing.

Prayer is basically asking some supernatural entity to act in your favor.

Its not like reflection or even introspection. You're ASKING for something to be done in the manner of your request.

Thats the difference.

If you're asking for this god to start changing shyt, then YOU need to do it.

 

[ChieferSutherland]

Not gonna get into a war or anything but religion has always fostered false hope/broken dreams.

 

[Icantspell]

god wanted zimmerman free didnt he

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

god wanted zimmerman free didnt he

God works in mysterious ways breh

 

[Will Ross]

Not gonna get into a war or anything but religion has always fostered false hope/broken dreams.

Only for blind followers.

 

[Propaganda]

Praying doesn't work and after so many years people still believe it works. I'm surprised im not atheist yet. Only thing keeping me from not believing in a supreme being is that I can't wrap my head around the thought that everything spontaneously came from nothing.

if you believe in a "god", then...sure you can. give it a try.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

I agree, I think black people's unyielding faith in and clinging to god and religion cripples us...people been praying for centuries and ain't shyt change, might we take a different approach now

White Jesus doesn't care about black people

 

[Type Username Here]

i can respect that people want to find solace in some sort of higher power, especially because the immediately higher power, the us justice system, seems to have fallen short of putting a guilty man in prison

but this was posted on my facebook last night

The thing about being Christian, is that we don't have to understand to forgive, we just have to forgive...Zimmerman's path and fate is not in our hands, nor was it in the jurors'. Maybe this is his second chance to ask GOD for forgiveness, remember he welcomes all in his house!!!

naw breh, his fate was definitely to be decided by the jurors not your god

and if your god's house permits racist murderers then why you wanna be there anyway?

That's actually living up to the teachings of Christ though what that person said. It's hard to find a real Christian who truly believe in something like that but there are a few of them.

The Amish did that when this dude came in and killed like 5 of there kids at a school and wounded 5 others. Some of the parents and a lot of the Amish community went to his funeral.

Amish attend funeral for their daughters' killer - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

I find the "they'll have to answer in the afterlife" thing silly, but I respect the compassion of some of these people. No hatred in them. It's something that I would be too weak of a person to feel in a situation like that.

 

[dennis roadman]

That's actually living up to the teachings of Christ though what that person said. It's hard to find a real Christian who truly believe in something like that but there are a few of them.

The Amish did that when this dude came in and killed like 5 of there kids at a school and wounded 5 others. Some of the parents and a lot of the Amish community went to his funeral.

Amish attend funeral for their daughters' killer - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

I find the "they'll have to answer in the afterlife" thing silly, but I respect the compassion of some of these people. No hatred in them. It's something that I would be too weak of a person to feel in a situation like that.

right, but the amish don't participate at all in our legal system. they're likely under no delusions that the jurors did not control the fate of zimmerman, if they truly believed that god had the immediate power over zimmerman, they'd have no qualms about participating in day to day worldly affairs. there's a reason they abstain, because they find society at large to be absent of god's presence.

the fact is, the 6 jurors decided his fate. that's all i'm saying. it's quite passive to think otherwise.

 

[Type Username Here]

right, but the amish don't participate at all in our legal system. they're likely under no delusions that the jurors did not control the fate of zimmerman, if they truly believed that god had the immediate power over zimmerman, they'd have no qualms about participating in day to day worldly affairs. there's a reason they abstain, because they find society at large to be absent of god's presence.

the fact is, the 6 jurors decided his fate. that's all i'm saying. it's quite passive to think otherwise.

For sure. I think people find comfort in thinking that he'll pay in another life, but the truth is that won't. I was mainly responding to what the facebook post you copied said. Like it or not, that's a very noble and compassionate position to take, something I admit that I could never do. I'm too much of a realist.

I'd take much more issue with the people who say they are Christians and are hoping this mad dies and suffers. Not very Christ like.