cinepro wrote:Sanctorian wrote:Cinepro, it’s ok to admit your attempt to explain the TBMs tweet as factual fell flat. As others have pointed out, coincidence does not justify the TBMs flippant tweet. Don’t keep digging a bigger hole to justify your statements. That’s what MG does.
Now I'm interested in why people can't even acknowledge the tweet was correct. Are you saying it isn't? All I'm saying is that the outrage to the tweet seemed out of proportion to the offensiveness of the comment, and I think part of that is because the tweet was true. If it wasn't, then that would be the focus of the response.
If the attack had happened on a Saturday and a SVA tweeted that "people observing the SVA Sabbath on Saturday wouldn't have been hurt", it would be tactless and insensitive, but it would also be true.
You can also argue that there is no connection, but it is the job of religious believers to make connections between "reality" and their "doctrine." It's what they do. They also disregard contradictory evidence and statistics (for example, LDS Missionaries are given special protection from God, except when they aren't).
Have Aliens possessed your body? Stop digging. The TBM was not correct, the entire premise of his tweet was not true because it presupposes that had these people been living a Mormon sabbath that day they would not have been killed and that's simply an impossible assertion to make. Life is full of random events some violent. For his tweet to be true it would have to have a built in guarantee that living his Mormon sabbath would have guanteed their survival. It could have but it also might not have, we don't know. Life is random. Living the sabbath has no bearing on subjecting each and everyone of us to random events some of which could subject us to a violent death. And unless he can guarantee that living his version of the sabbath can prevent death by violent means then his assertion is false. These people could have just as easily been in church that day in an LDS chapel no less keeping the Mormon sabbath, had the killer decided it instead target that ward, would keeping the sabbath had saved them? No...ergo keeping the sabbath does not keep one safe from a violent end and this my friend, is why that TBM is an asshole for making his false assertion.