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Interfaith service near the finish line
By adamg on Sun, 04/21/2013 - 2:35pm
Brian D'Amico attended an interfaith service at Boylston and Berkeley this morning.
Copyright Brian D'Amico.
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service that didn't include the "faith" of the victims
Several victims, including one killed, were humanist, and despite the humanist/secular community reaching out to both the national and local politicians, they haven't been invited or even permitted to attend the services.
Fuck you, assholes. You demonstrated that this is about promoting your religion and getting good PR when you refused to honor the beliefs of the victims.
So this is the 'humanist'
So this is the 'humanist' response? Nice people.
yes, actually
One of the dead victims was very active in the humanist community, as was another person who was severely injured.
Not only did nobody approach the humanist community to say "would you send someone?" but they actively chose to IGNORE and thus BAR us.
By doing so, they proved that they were more interested in promoting their belief systems than honoring the dead and wounded. Pointing that out doesn't put us in the wrong.
WE were denied.
THEY prioritized promoting THEIR religious beliefs.
To whom did you reach out?
Please let me know to whom you reached out about joining this particular event. I am a lay leader at one of the churches involved and I find it shocking that any community would be excluded. I'd like to note though that interfaith does not necessarily mean all faith. That aside, if your faith group did try to join and was rebuffed that is concerning.
anon trolling is degrading the discourse
Wait, you weren't explicitly invited so you assume you were barred?
anon is trolling the thread and lot's of other threads. I'm with Swrrly, ban anon's.
Are you fucking kidding me? I
Are you fucking kidding me?
I mean, seriously - are you trolling or really this daft?
Either way, what the hell is wrong with you? An "interfaith" service by definition includes, oh, EVERY FAITH, including lack thereof. The point isn't religion, it's about coming together to help one another heal.
Don't hurt yourself jumping to conclusions, the medics and doctors in this city have had enough to deal with for one week.
Yeah, but...
All faiths weren't represented, at least by those leading the service. I see Judaism, and a couple flavors of Christianity, and that's it. Boston is home to people adhering to every color of philosophy, but very few were invited to lead the memorial. At least one local Humanist group requested to be included in the service that the President attended, and that request wasn't even rebuffed, it was simply ignored. Anon's language was unnecessarily harsh (as, may I point out was your own...), but I understand the frustration.
There's no evidence the
There's no evidence the request was deliberately ignored in order to bar them. There's poor us, we're victimized.
Humanists...
...have services? Look, a humanist is welcome anywhere, I suppose. Um, the victims? I dunno. My head hurts. You're an a anonymous fucking troll.
Big Papi can speak for anyone, as far as I'm concerned.
It looks like the anonymous
It looks like the anonymous troll above is at least partly correct; there were humanist groups which tried to be included in the interfaith service, and were rejected, despite the fact that at least two of the victims are active in the humanist community.
While the above poster is considerably more forceful (and rude) than I would be, it is sad that many of these events focus only on religious faith and do not include the secular community.
Couple questions
Is that the Moroccan kid from Revere that the NY POST irresponsible and wrongly put out a manhunt on?
What are those big cloth=wrapped objects being held?
thanks.
The Torah (wrapped
The Torah (wrapped objects).
No clue about the young man from Revere. I suspect he is still a bit camera-shy after that irresponsible bit of journalism.
More facepalm
"Is that the Moroccan kid from Revere that the NY POST irresponsible and wrongly put out a manhunt on?"
Probably not. That does it, I'm outta here...
Settle down, dmc
I didn't really think it was him but it would have been cool if he had wanted to show up and throw it back in the internet kooks' faces.
Feel bad for the kid.
To the previous poster, thanks for the answer on the Torah.
This scene looks seriously
This scene looks seriously goofy to me. Humanist, quit whining and go hold your own darn service.