Why You Gotta Pick on the Amish, Man?

Whoa... makes you wish there was less of a stigma attached to sexual deviancy and the acquisition psychological help. I mean, maybe if it were easier to admit that you were a pedophile, it would be easier to get help? Maybe if he leveled with his wife instead of telling her in a suicide note, he could've gotten the help he needed, and those kids would still be alive. Alas, being sick is apparantly a terrible thing in our society, and not at all a symptom of the human condition.

I don't care that they're Amish. Innocent people get hurt every day, and it's always a tragedy. Where one person could've been healed, a lot of people were hurt, and that's always a testament to the fucked up state of affairs that the human condition has become.

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I have a new respect for the Amish community. I think it's pretty arrogant and over-cynical to assume that they would forgive the shooter for selfish reasons, and that's coming from a cynic. You know nothing of the situation, and thus have nothing but your own personal bias to base such an assumption on. The fact is that we are all capable of doing terrible things of this nature, given the right stimuli and a lack of help from loved ones. Once you recognize this, the reason why they forgive even a child killer becomes pretty obvious.

It's also excessively lame to judge an entire way of life by the idiocy and depravity of a few individuals. If a person fails to understand their own religion, then they are an utter moron, since most religion is designed to be understood by all who seek it. The people who turned a blind eye, the people who would weep for the victimizers before the victim, have no understanding of the way of life that they, themselves, are a part of. Forgiveness is divine, but one should forgive the victimizers only after they repent, and after the victims have been helped. To see a sin and turn a blind eye is essentially the same as committing it yourself, as anyone with even a basic understanding of Christianity should know.

This is precisely why people should not be born into a way of life, but should instead explore all options and choose for themselves. If you don't understand the doctrine, than don't call yourself a believer. 'Nuff said.

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