Posted on 09/08/2025 7:39:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
“Despicable.”
That’s how one Columbine survivor framed some of the anti-prayer rhetoric coming from politicians and public figures after the horrific shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis.
Evan Todd, who was shot and injured during the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, said many of those speaking ill of thoughts and prayers fail to understand the importance of invocations.
“It’s heartbreaking,” Todd said in response to those decrying thoughts and prayers. “I think [it’s] despicable. I think it’s revealing of the people who are doing it.”
Todd said his own story is evidence of just how powerful prayer can be in the wake of tragedy. He was in the library on April 20, 1999, where most of the carnage took place. Two of his peers killed 12 students and a teacher and eventually turned the guns on themselves.
“I have my own story and my going through Columbine and surviving,” he said. “I just know what prayers — and thoughts and prayers — did in my life. I’ve seen miracles work. I’ve seen prayers from that very day that have been answered.”
Todd said he found immense comfort in the wake of the shooting knowing that so many people were sending thoughts and prayers.
“I could feel that in my soul,” he said. “It was … uplifting, encouraging. … It made me realize that, although I just saw the most evil and saw death …. I stared death in the face, I could still see the humanity and love that was in the world.”
He continued, “And that was really a good piece of the healing process that got me to realize that … life isn’t all bad.”
Beyond that, Todd, over the years, came to another realization: prayer is a selfless action that devotes time to others — something he truly values as he now reflects on it.
“[It’s amazing] that someone would take a time out of their day and appeal to the Creator of the universe on your behalf,” he said. “And, to me, that was so empowering and gave me so much motivation.”
Todd found himself looking for answers in the wake of the shooting, clinging closer to his Christian faith. Today, he often speaks about biblical truth and morality.
Beyond the personal benefits of prayer, the survivor also expressed worries about the message politicians are sending when they make proclamations that seem to undercut thoughts and prayers.
These leftist /communist politicians are either godless atheists or or hypocrites who practice a religion only if it scores points with voters.
Evil lowlife filth hate the idea of prayers of comfort for anyone. Nice that evil people out themselves for us... makes it easier to identify them.
Oh, and when they do their little ‘hold a candle and look pathetic’ bit? We should laugh at them.
It’s fitting for them to hate prayer.
Gun control advocates are, knowingly or unknowingly, advocates for genocide.
Ever wonder why there were so few mass killings before the 1970s? I remember three mass murderers between 1949 and 1970. all crazies.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/.../story-first-mass.../
Howard Unruh, 1949. Considered the first mass murderer, So dangerous he died in a mental hospital in 2009.
Richard Speck, 1966. Murdered eight student nurses with a knife. Died in prison.
Charles Whitman, 1966. killed many from the Texas Tower. Had a tumor on the brain, killed on site.
Then in the 1970s, the mental hospitals were closed down, the crazies declared “sane” enough to walk the streets and murder rates took off like a rocket.
Here is partial list of people who would have been in a MENTAL WARD before many of the ASYLUMS were shut down, crazies declared “sane” and dumped on the streets.
ALL CRAZIES allowed to roam the streets...
Mark David Chapman who murdered John Lennon
John Hinckley Jr. who shot President Reagan
Robert John Bardo who shot Rebecca Schaeffer
David Berkowitz, the .44 Cailber Killer.
Jared Laugher who shot Gabby Giffords.
Pat Purdy, released from a mental hospital, allowed to buy guns, then shot up the Stockton School Yard.
Patrick Sherrill who shot up the Edmond Post office.
James Oliver Huberty who shot so many at MacDonalds
This is just a SHORT LIST t of people who were crazy enough who would have been in a mental hospital before they were closed down in the 1970s.
When you add the MASS MURDERERS and CHURCH and SCHOOL SHOOTERS who would have been shown to be insane but allowed to roam freely you will begin to understand why it is...
LONG PAST TIME TO REOPEN THE MENTAL WARDS AGAIN!
I’d say they’re both.
Gun control is knowing how to use a gun.
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