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I didn't claim to know the boy. I have sympathy for his family and friends and appreciation for those posters here who used it as a forum to send prayers to heaven for the boys and their families. I do believe that was the original point of the post and many latched onto it immediately. I don't believe that it is appropriate to bash a religion during an announcement of a tragedy involving that religion's preachers. I don't believe I have seen that same reaction on some of the other posts involving religious people, like the family gunned down in their airplane in South America, or the preacher who was electrocuted accidentally, or Christians murdered in foreign countries.

As I said earlier, I believe there is a time and place for everything and this isn't the place for Mormon bashing, especially in the disrespectful tones you and a few others are using. Understand that symbols of a religion (including what you call "funny underwear" or "magic eyeglasses") are sacred to that religion and ought to be treated with some modicum of diplomacy whether you accept their sacred nature or not.

I guess my heartfelt prayer to the Lord for this young man's family and his wounded compadre was pulled so you didn't get to read it.

If Joseph Smith and God decide for us all to wear holy undergarments, I'm not trying to make a joke, they already have.

Please don't stifle honest debate in the name of sentiment or inappropriateness. We are not at a funeral and we don't know the family. Again, I think it is totally appropriate to discuss the belief system of this child who was out there trying to proselytize people into his belief in Mormonism. If he was just a Mormon father, for instance, or this was about Elizabeth Smart, their beliefs would not be pertinent to their news story. But here, sorry, the boy's beliefs are totally pertinent -- dude -- that's WHY he was in Virginia in the first place.