Offering “thoughts and prayers” in the midst of a crisis can feel empty and trite. Here’s how religious leaders say this can be a starting point. https://cnn.it/4ndjVtv
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the magical sky fairys hear the pleas for help ... but because they dont exist nothing happens
aug 30, 2025, 10:09 am • 0 0 • view
When someone gives me thoughts and prayers, it just pisses me off.
aug 30, 2025, 9:08 am • 9 0 • view
people arm up
aug 30, 2025, 9:05 am • 0 0 • view
End NRA or it’s just another day Like the last several decades
aug 30, 2025, 9:14 am • 0 0 • view
It is a way to get "credit for caring, without actually having to do anything that takes any effort or that actually works". ~Ricky Gervais
aug 30, 2025, 9:05 am • 21 1 • view
Nobody gets upset when pastors and priests offer "thoughts and prayers" after a tragedy, because that's their job. We get upset when politicians hide behind the phrase while insisting "now" isn't the time to do anything to prevent it from happening in the future, because that's /their/ job.
aug 31, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 9:08 am • 2 0 • view
How many "thoughts and prayers" have you already sent to heaven and how many "thoughts and prayers " are necessary to stop the shooting?
aug 31, 2025, 10:45 am • 0 0 • view
Not interested in empty platitudes that do absolutely nothing
aug 30, 2025, 11:17 am • 0 0 • view
Oh fuck right off with some "in defense of thoughts and goddamn prayers" article.
aug 30, 2025, 12:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Thoughts and Prayers are the same as Corporate Democrats saying "I feel your pain" while retaining GOP distortions ,inflicting more status quo. Republicans won't "feel your pain" they'll just say "pray harder." Oprah and Kammy Harris will say "work out your Karma." Same #$%^ different day. #BlueMaga
aug 30, 2025, 8:50 am • 3 1 • view
Nothing. More shootings. Republicans have us all hostage
aug 30, 2025, 9:12 am • 0 0 • view
Jeeeeeesus. Shut up
aug 30, 2025, 9:47 am • 0 0 • view
REPORTER: "NO, REALLY, IS THIS A JOKE? SPOKESMAN: NO, TOBY! AND NO MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER THIS IS A JOKE." Honestly folks, you're in classic Simpsons Season 5 territory here, and that should be terribly embarrassing for you. I mean, I live in a country where this s**t doesn't happen, so YMMV.
aug 30, 2025, 1:46 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 3:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Thoughts & Prayers without DECISIVE ACTION(s) are just that, empty platitudes without meaning. -ONE.🙏
aug 30, 2025, 9:04 am • 6 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 9:28 am • 6 0 • view
#ThougtsAndPrayers "a starting point"?? I would agree around the 1900 (13 "incidents") rising steadily every decade to the 1980's (79 "incidents").... 2025 almost 1 "incident" a day.... 125 years of "Thoughts & Prayers" have had #NO #Impact.... Sounds to me like that "plan" #Does #NOT #WORK!
aug 30, 2025, 10:10 am • 1 0 • view
You've #BLAMED music, movies, games, people, fences, doors, etc. Everything under the #SUN! BUT SOMEHOW #NOT #ACCESS TO #GUNS!!! There are 190ish countries in the world... And this #Only happens in the #US for ONE REASON! IT'S THE #Access to #GUNS & #ZERO #GunControl! Do you see a pattern?
aug 30, 2025, 10:10 am • 4 0 • view
the US number is probably much larger, in 2025 alone we are up to 146 (K-12 US)
aug 30, 2025, 12:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Thereby demonstrating the trite part
aug 30, 2025, 9:03 am • 0 0 • view
This article is 20 years too late. The Republican party has long since delegitimized 'thoughts and prayers' as a starting point.
aug 30, 2025, 8:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Pathetic. Religion and guns. The 2 biggest problems in magat land.
aug 30, 2025, 9:05 am • 4 0 • view
Can’t believe that articles like this are still being written.
aug 30, 2025, 1:01 pm • 0 0 • view
So much fuck off. Fuck off.
aug 30, 2025, 12:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Fuck you CNN
aug 30, 2025, 11:49 am • 0 0 • view
“Thoughts and prayers“ isn’t a starting point. It’s an endpoint for GOP. It’s just the way they can pretend to give a crap but not actually do anything to improve matters.
aug 30, 2025, 11:34 am • 2 0 • view
Curious how the media are taking no account whatsoever of the feedback.
aug 30, 2025, 10:28 am • 0 0 • view
The starting point is to destroy the mountains of combat level weapons in the hands of civilians. Also, destroy the NRA, that has completely sold out to your enemy. Just like your POTUS.
aug 30, 2025, 9:21 am • 0 0 • view
Weird, they've been "starting" for 4 freaking decades. But please, do give their POV more hype, they are so "oppressed" after all.
aug 30, 2025, 12:43 pm • 0 0 • view
thank God for the people he killed 🤦
aug 30, 2025, 9:17 am • 0 0 • view
Starting points are fine, assuming that you are actually starting something.
aug 30, 2025, 11:13 am • 2 0 • view
“Ruminations and incantations”
aug 30, 2025, 1:22 pm • 0 0 • view
“Could be a starting point” and “monkeys might fly out my ass” have never been closer in meaning.
aug 30, 2025, 1:20 pm • 0 0 • view
lol “in defense of thoughts and prayers!”
aug 30, 2025, 9:32 am • 3 0 • view
An utterly pointless platitude. One pair of busy hands can achieve more than a million " thoughts and prayers".
aug 30, 2025, 9:23 am • 11 0 • view
any advice from people who don't believe in a magic sky daddy?
aug 30, 2025, 10:17 am • 2 0 • view
Once again, missing the point
aug 30, 2025, 9:07 am • 3 0 • view
There’s those who need to grasp onto a higher meaning etc because life is to hard for them to survive without a reason, belief or excuse as to how we got where we are or how cruel things can be. You also have those that need to believe they are important to someone else or that they need to feel 1/2
aug 30, 2025, 9:33 am • 0 0 • view
2/2 a part of something bigger, less alone. Then you’ve got the freaks & weirdos like those in this administration & all those Christian Nationalists, other sects who use believers weaknesses against themselves to control & harm. All in all it’s a form of mental illness, inadequacy to some degree.
aug 30, 2025, 9:36 am • 0 0 • view
If you're still talking about a starting point 26 years after Columbine you're part of the problem
aug 30, 2025, 10:31 am • 11 0 • view
This !!! Get these dinosaurs out of office!
aug 30, 2025, 2:12 pm • 0 0 • view
So these so called religious leaders are suggesting, with a small monetary donation, they can get y'all to think and pray "before" something this tragic happens. Humm, make this make sense?
aug 30, 2025, 5:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Minneapolis church shooter was a satanist.
aug 31, 2025, 5:07 pm • 0 0 • view
More thoughts and prayers.
aug 30, 2025, 11:27 am • 0 0 • view
BULLSHIT Yet Another School Shooting and Yet More Thoughts and Prayers: TN&W August 27, 2025 youtu.be/h_ZAP-MwVcc
aug 30, 2025, 10:58 am • 0 0 • view