2 thoughts on “Church shootings.”

1. I’m not sure where you’re going with this.

   All I can say is that under no circumstances do I want metal detectors, armed security guards, etc. in my church. I happen to be a Unitarian Universalist in Eastern Tenneessee, so what happened on Sunday hit very close to home.

   Still, I am proud of being a UU, and proud of what we stand for. I will not be silenced, and I will fear no evil.

   There is no way to protect sick people from harming me, and taking a siege mentality by carrying a weapon or holing myself up in a fortress will only serve to diminish my quality of life. I want to live as a free man.

   I am not a naiive man. I know the world is a dangerous place. It is especially dangerous for religious liberals in Eastern Tenneessee.

   The world is also a beautiful place, full of awe and wonder. To be alive, to be free, is to be in the world. It’s not about how long you can keep your heart beating, or the EEG needles wiggling. America is full of great piles of breathing corpses who would rather seek safety and certainty than live.

   Death comes to us all. It can come peacefully or violently, prematurely or in it’s good time, fairly or unfairly. None of can know when it will come, but it will come. Until it does, I want to be able to say that I have lived well. That I have lived in the world without fear.

   Live free, or die.

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2. A church can choose to put in metal detectors, etc., but I will never attend one that does. That’s the difference between churches and schools – kids are forced to go to those schools (There is homeschooling or private schools, but only a small percentage of families can afford the money or time to do that).

   Re: Daniel – I’m also in East TN, not a UU, but a Baptist. I’m curious though (and this has nothing to do with my religion vs. your religion, so please do not take it that way), why would arming yourself diminish quality of life? I find that since I’ve legally armed myself according to state law, that my quality of life is greater, simply because I’m prepared to combat a threat rather than hide in a corner and hope I’m not found.

   I totally agree that when your time comes, you can’t do anything about it. But at the same time I won’t tempt fate by conceding that ‘what will be will be’.

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