Wow! This is one sad story. Long time coach shot and killed by a former student and athlete. My condolences go out to both families.
Now, the main reason I am posting this is not so much for the story, but for the crazy wild religious rants that erupted on Yahoo Sports news. Read the article here: Iowa coach Ed Thomas shot and killed. Then scroll down and start reading the comments. It very quickly devolved into a religious rant fight among all involved. The story is supposed to be about someone who was tragically killed yet it turned into an religious and political battle among all the Yahoo users.
Here is my opinion on all this. And the reason I’m posting here, instead of on Yahoo, is that it would have been quickly lost in the confusing muddle on Yahoo.
The story is sad. A long time coach loses his life by being shot by a former student. This should not have happened. The school should have had adequate security. Granted, since it was a former student he was probably not suspected of anything. Sadly the man was shot and killed. That is where the story should end and the discussion following should be about that.
But here is where I must point out the dumbing down of not only American but of Americans. The comments posted to this article quickly devolved into a ranting of Religious fanatics, God haters, God lovers, Obama bashers, Bush haters and a myriad of other things. What the Fuck! People talking about not having God, not knowing religion, too much religion, guns are bad, etc, etc. One guy said we were becoming a Pagan nation because we didn’t know Christ. What?
First I want to say to say that the Pagan beliefs trump all other modern religions as the Pagan beliefs came first. All modern religions have stolen what they believe in from these older beliefs and modified them to their own ends. Please people. Do some research, read more and make yourself more informed instead of following blindly and believe what other say to you. Find it out for yourselves. Read about it. Make your own informed decisions. Nothing frustrates me more than someone talking about something they really have no idea about because they are just repeating what has been said to them instead of researching it firsthand. Yes the Country was founded by God fearing, religious individuals, but the Constitution upholds and protects our individual rights to believe what we want as long as we follow the rules.
Second about guns being bad because they kill people. This is not true. Guns do not fly through the air and kill anyone they feel like. People kill people. It’s been this way for thousands of years even before guns. If someone wants to kill someone else bad enough they will use anything they can get their hands on to do it. Be it a gun, knife, arrow, piece of glass, even a pencil!! So it’s not the guns fault. Its he persons fault. Do not ban guns because of bad reasoning. We were founding withe the belief in the “Right to bear arms”. I still believe this.
Third. Making this political? Now this is just plain idiotic. There is nothing political about this article. I don’t care if you are Repulican or Democrat or who you voted for. This article was not about politics but of someone getting killed. You want to talk the Economy, Bail outs, the wars, then yes that is political. But this story was not.
Damn! I have such a headache now. My ranting is over for now. But I’m sure it will get sparked up again by the next set of stupid, uneducated comments that I see people post all the time. Peace out!
Jesus and Satan were having an ongoing argument about who was better on his computer. They had been going at it for days and God was tired of hearing all of the bickering.