Last Wednesday, a shooter, filled with hate, killed two innocent children and left 15 other children and two adults injured at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, Minn.
At a news conference, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said, “During the Mass, a gunman approached on the outside on the side of the building and began firing a rifle through the church windows towards the children sitting in the pews at the Mass. Shooting through the windows, he struck children and worshipers who were inside the building. The shooter was armed with a rifle, a shotgun and a pistol. This was a deliberate act of violence against innocent children and other people worshiping.”
The following day, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt labeled the shooter a monster.
Monsters are not born, they are made. Sometime in the past, a seed of hate was planted in the shooter. Individuals on podcasts and other social media watered and fertilized that seed until that hate consumed the shooter.
Acting United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota Joe Thompson said, “The shooter expressed hate towards almost every group imaginable. The shooter expressed hate towards Black people. The shooter expressed hate towards Mexican people. The shooter expressed hate towards Christian people. The shooter expressed hate towards Jewish people,” Thompson continued. “In short, the shooter appeared to hate all of us. The shooter’s heart was full of hate. There appears to be only one group that the shooter didn’t hate. One group of people who the shooter admired. That group were the school shooters and mass murderers that are notorious in this country.”
Shortly after the senseless shooting, commentators in the media and some Democrat politicians displayed their ignorance as they criticized calls for prayer shortly after the shooting.
“These children were probably praying when they were shot to death at Catholic school. Don’t give us your f------ thoughts and prayers.” Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., wrote on social media.
Jeff Timmer of the Lincoln Project attacked Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on social media after Graham said he was praying for the Minneapolis community. “The kids were praying when they died. How’d that work out, you obsequious coward? Now, f--- off,” Timmer wrote.
MSNBC host Jen Psaki also criticized prayer in a post on social media following the shooting.“Prayer is not freaking enough. Prayers does not end school shootings. [P]rayers do not make parents feel safe sending their kids to school. Prayer does not bring these kids back. Enough with the thoughts and prayers,” she wrote on X.
“Thoughts and prayers, I’m so beyond that nonsense. The lie of that,” MSNBC’s Michael Steele said Wednesday.
Sounds like they are attacking a big part of America. Sounds like they hate people who pray.
The Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, did not fall in line with the political rhetoric: “I’ve been briefed on a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School,” and “I’m praying for our kids and teachers whose first week of school was marred by this horrific act of violence.”
Even Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey dismissed calls for prayer after the shooting.
Comments like these display ignorance and show how out of touch they are.
Minnesota Bishop Robert Barron had the perfect response.“Catholics don’t think that prayer magically protects them from all suffering. After all, Jesus prayed fervently from the cross on which he was dying,” Barron told Fox News Digital.
Barron, founder of Word on Fire ministries, argued that critics misunderstand the role of prayer.
“Prayer is the raising of the mind and heart to God, which strikes me as altogether appropriate precisely at times of great pain,” he said. “And prayer by no means stands in contrast to decisive moral action. Martin Luther King was a man of deep prayer, who also effected a social revolution in our country. This is not an either/or proposition.”
“We pray because our hearts are broken. We pray because we know God listens. We pray because we know that God works in mysterious ways, and can inspire us to further action,” Vice President JD Vance — a Catholic — wrote. “Why do you feel the need to attack other people for praying when kids were just killed praying?”
If you would like to learn more, please click the links below
https://www.foxnews.com/us/minneapolis-police-reveal-more-about-church-school-shooters-motive
https://www.foxnews.com/media/liberal-figures-lambast-prayers-wake-minnesota-church-shooting
