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The Three Gates is Not Enough
Like “thoughts and prayers” rating the quality of the conversation instead of the need for action fails in every meaningful way.
“Prayer is an excuse to do nothing. Prayer is a symptom of mental illness and that’s all it will ever be.”
— Random Post Circulating the Internet
With all things, context matters — this post was likely made in response to the recent killing of six people, Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, who were all 9 years old — and three adults — Cynthia Peak, 61; Katherine Koonce, 60; and Mike Hill, 61.
As with all school shootings: the Congressional leaders of this nation offered their meaningless mantra of: “thoughts and prayers.”
Strangely enough, one of the more unusual comments this post has engendered as it sweeps the Internet, enraging the religions and non-religious alike is:
“This post does not pass the Three Gates.”
This is the one which set my teeth on edge. I am not a religious person (I have explained this in a number of posts already) but I recognize some people look at religion, not only as a supplication to…
