They were not even Jewish
 

They were not even Jewish.


Just crazy. Hopefully, he never sees the light of day. He brought it on himself by killing totally innocent people.


We have many wonderful Jewish friends who have enriched our lives. I do not understand how people can be so hateful and intolerant.

We first heard the details on the CBS News last evening
 

White supremacist goes on rampage to kill Jewish people and ends up killing Christians....

We first heard the details on the CBS News last evening.
Now FOX news has printed it, as well as other newspapers.

'''''The family of two of the three people who died in the shooting released a statement Sunday identifying them as Dr. William Lewis Corporon and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood. They were both Christian, and the family thanked members of their church congregation, among other people, for their support.'''''

''''On Monday, Douglass identified the third victim as Terri Lamanno, 53, of Kansas City. Douglass said Lamanno was a member of a Catholic church in Kansas City and was visiting her mother Sunday at Village Shalom retirement community -- as she usually did -- when she was fatally shot by the gunman.'''''

What an a--hole! Having just visited the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz it is hard to believe there are still nuts like this out there. But then he probably dropped out of "Red Neck High School" in the 9th grade. Fortunately, we saw quite a few groups of younger folks visiting the museum and former death camps. All were somber and respectful. Does Missouri have the death penalty? Hope so!

Sadly I have come across many people who equate members of hate groups as "patriots," many, though not all, racist. Extremism is extremism, but why the "patriot" label and how extremist or hate or racist groups' (so-called) philosophy has morphed into "patriotism" utterly baffles me. Can anyone shed some light on this phenomenon?

As long as we have more than one religious belief, this will continue. Believing in a higher power is fine, but when you define your higher power as one specific faith, you are directly being disrespectful to those that do not believe as you do. Disrespect will always lead to violence. We should all convert to the oldest established religion or abandoned them all.

Mistaken identity by a lunatic
 

Obviously, mistaken identity by a lunatic.........which gave me "pause" when I first heard that the Jewish folks he "assumed" he was targeting.....weren't even of the Hebrew faith, but were Christians/Catholic. Our own "one and only" grandson learned Hebrew in order to sing with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra...

Our 12-Year-old grandson, 7th grade middle school student, sang with the VSO** performing in Leonard Bernstein’s "Chichester Psalms" as the boy soprano soloist.

His regular United Church of Christ choral director recognizes his amazing "boy soprano" voice, which won't last long.......and taught him the piece in HEBREW.....the kid's a genius, what can I say.

He performed it flawlessly as a solo number at two theatres in Burlington and Rutland.**Vermont Symphony Orchestra. Obviously, his parents are extremely proud, as are we.

However, as soon as the news came out about the senseless tragedy at the Jewish Center, etc. this remembrance popped into my head.......and then again, when the news stated that the three victims were NOT Jewish. God forbid, that another crazy person might shoot an innocent boy for singing in Hebrew, when he was actually Christian.

Crazy people do crazy things without even realizing who they are harming and that no matter who they killed, it was WRONG.

We have many beloved Jewish friends and their adult children , grandchildren, etc. We all think it was a senseless act.

p.s This same little boy (who yesterday was a baby; proud Grandma) is spending his April school vacation from middle school in a tiny mountain village in Nicaragua helping the host family and villagers perfect their English while he perfects his Spanish, and performing helpful "chores" along with the rest of his high school travelers/chaperones, etc. It's a town that the high school/middle school group has strong bonds with.....raising scholarship funds for the Nicaraguan kids, etc. I'm sure they are all sharing some music favorites as well. He flew out Easter Sunday for a one and a half week exchange program.

Just can't help thinking about people's assumptions and cases of mistaken identity in relation to the Jewish Center tragedy. Sometimes people do not use the brains that God gave them.

I was raised in a family that was non racist; I had friends of all ethnic groups and all religions. Still do. Totally DO NOT UNDERSTAND these neo Nazis and white supremacist's mindset.
Both my husband and I take each person as an individual, not based on their color or religion.

God forbid that another crazy person shoot an innocent person who is singing in Hebrew or French or Swahili or German or Chinese or English or humming along or signing. AMEN


Good morning everyone. It is another beautiful day in The Villages.

I was referring to his targeting JEWISH PEOPLE
 

I was referring to him "targeting" Jewish people.

I wasn't the only one who thought that our grandson, age 12, might be senselessly "assumed" to be of the Hebrew faith by another "crazy" person.

Does a skin head actually know why he has such deep hatred for those different from him?

Cavemen fought with the members of the cave on the other side of the valley.

Muslims fight with all infidels.

Racists fight with minorities.

Man is ignorant and violent, and only needs the slightest difference to go crazy. I feel it is also part of the basic instinct to survive.

If we were all Christians, same color, we would fight between the short and tall individuals.

Why cant we all just get along ?

I'll drink to that!! :beer3:

I could not agree more. The worst atrocities committed by people against other people were in the name of religion. “My God is better than your god.” Or “My God is the ONLY God.” And on and on.

And it was not only one religion against another; it was also different groups within the same religion. A notable example, not well known, was the Cathar massacre by the forces of the Roman Catholic Church in 1209. The Cathars lived simply by the principles of Jesus and rejected the powerful structure that had become the Roman Catholic Church, who viewed the Cathars as heretics. It was from this massacre that the expression “Kill them all; God will know His own!” emerged.

Another notable example continues today in the Middle East. It’s a commonly held view in the Middle East that the worst Middle East conflict in the present is not between Israel and its Arab neighbors but rather between the Shia and the Sunni, both Muslim. There is blood vengeance that goes back to the year 632, when Muhammad died and the fight began as to which group would succeed him. It is amazing how long these memories can go on and on and on; the struggle continues today as potently as it was back then.

Let's not fight about religion again. It hurts too many good people. Both who quietly believe and quietly don't believe. Hating and killing is done in the name of many things. Wars are started for many reasons.


All we can direct is our own actions this morning.


It is a beautiful day in The Villages.

Without religion, we would find other things to get huffy about, but for now it is the top of the reasons why to go beserk on our fellow man.