Wasn't there one just in Vegas? Our young people need Jesus' guidance in these troubling times.
Here's the local WGAL-TV News 8 story...
BREAKING NEWS: Police Surround One-Room Amish Schoolhouse
POSTED: 11:26 am EDT October 2, 2006
UPDATED: 12:08 pm EDT October 2, 2006
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Police have responded to reports of a hostage situation and multiple people shot in eastern Lancaster County.
The scene is along the 4800 block of Mine Road near Paradise Township.
News 8 reporter Anne Shannon said that the incident happened at a one-room Amish schoolhouse. She said the school is marked off with police tape. She counted 13 ambulances in the area. A helicopter was overhead and numerous fire companies were on the ground.
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"This is definitely an enormous scene," Shannon said.
News 8 is stressing that the situation does not involve the Faith Mennonite School or Bart-Colerain Elementary, which are near the scene.
Stay with News 8 and WGAL.com for updates on this breaking news situation.
"Wasn't there one just in Vegas? Our young people need Jesus' guidance in these troubling times."
Or if the parents busted their asses once in a while they would know what happens when you mess up. Kids can't handle any thing any more; it's pathetic.
Boy is that an understatement.
At 46 I am just about done with a year long adult Catechism that is geared towards 8th graders and boy have I been clueless in a lot of what Jesus has given us to deal with in this world.
It is just by divine intervention that my gut instinct has got me through life. Has to be.
OK. Like this was an Amish school. Just how much more insular or how much more Jesus guidance would have prevented something like this?
Perhaps your Jesus guidance inoculates your young people better than any other.
No matter what we do either as a religious community or a secular one, these things still seem to happen. Why?
I just stated reading a book about the Amish and the practice of rumspringa where the youth, with permission of their parents are allowed to taste all that the secular world has to offer before making a final commitment to the Amish way of life.
“To be or not to be Amish”:
http://www.amazon.com/Rumspringa-Be-Not-Amish/dp/086547687X
The Amish believe that by giving the young people a choice they will choose the Amish way of life willinging and without regret.
Perhaps this has nothing to do with this tragic event. Any community, no matter how religious and God fearing can harbor a crazy person.
UPDATE – this was not an Amish person but 32 year old truck driver living in the area.
Uh, Huh? It's not the young people doing it here, it's crazy old coots. These boomer aged men who are probably having bad flashbacks from old acid trips or something. Who knows, but I'll say that our young people need armed teachers more than they need Jesus.