SHAMELESS

From Tom Murse at Capital punmanship

Bush recognizes Christ Blank, an Amish man from Nickel Mines. He
praised the Amish for their ability to forgive and embrace Marie Roberts, the
widow of gunman Charles Carl Roberts IV. “I’m honored you’re here,” Bush said to
Blank.

No incongruities here. Torture, war, forgiveness, pacifists, it's all one seamless entity.

FORGIVENESS SMIVENESS

It's a bogus story. Come on, say it. It's a bogus story. The media hyped this thing, and now nobody wants to get down off of a pony that rides.

Listen to the dude
From the New Era

Is forgiveness automatic in our society? Of course not. It must be
developed. In any incident, forgiveness must begin through acceptance.

Perhaps the most astonishing subject the media pounced on was the
forgiveness.

See, he thinks they pounced. You get that, pounced

Forgiveness must be honest; recycled forgiveness doesn't seem kosher. In
our Amish world, it isn't automatic. Even we can struggle with anger and doubt.
But forgiveness must be granted to continue on in life.

Honest or forced I'm not sure which it is. But, did you get that part about it not being automatic? Or should I repeat it?

Here's my theory. If the non-Amish folks would've kept this story in perspective, as in not going ape shit over some magical hooey like, instant forgiveness, but paid attention on a human level. That would have required some actual soul searching about how we live, but we weren't up for it. So we latch onto something that is completely and totally removed from what we might actually apply in our own lives, allowing us to continue doing what we've always done.

TRAIN WRECK

From the New Era

This ought to generate some blow back.

Is it asking too much to put the Lord's Prayer and Bible-reading back in
public schools and teach proper Christian virtues?

Bwaa haa haa haa. Maybe if we stopped jerking ourselves off over how wonderful the Amish are, they wouldn't be getting uppity and telling us how to live. Bwaaa haa haa haa.

HAVING IT BOTH WAYS

From the New Era

Almost overshadowing the shootings, the forgiveness the Amish immediately
extended to Roberts and his family transfixed a world more accustomed to
vengeful responses.

In the wake of massive media interest immediately after Oct. 2, the Amish
feared that writers and filmmakers would sensationalize the story. That has not
happened.

Is the first sentence compatible with the second sentence? Ya'll know my opinion on it. History will tell.

AHEM

From the York Dispatch

"I'm proud of the police because there would have been a lot more people
injured if they hadn't charged the scene," he said

Is this guy an expert on this?

INSANE LANGUAGE

From the Christian Science Monitor

News of the instant forgiveness stunned the outside world – almost as much
as the incident itself did

SANE LANGUAGE

From ABC News

Even before their own five daughters had been buried, the victims' families
were showing Roberts' family kindness, condolence and compassion.