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March 26th, 2012
10:38 AM ET

Congregations pay tribute to Trayvon

(CNN)–Congregations around the United States wear hoodies on Sunday to pay tribute to Trayvon Martin.

- CNN Belief Blog

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  1. Ronnie12345

    Tom tom is for neo nazi

    May 14, 2012 at 9:01 am |
  2. Payers are a waste of time

    Prayers are a waste of time – Proven truth!

    March 28, 2012 at 1:18 pm |
    • not sayin

      March 28, 2012 at 1:19 pm |
  3. JohnQuest

    Urafkntool, be advised that a few of the Prof. at Capella are Non White, be careful you might learn something,I hope those Black, Indian, and other Prof. open your eyes, (I hope).

    March 28, 2012 at 12:32 pm |
    • Urafkntool

      oh I'm quite aware of that. Anyone can teach out of a book. Frankly, I wouldn't mind having an Indian professor (I'm an online student, so as far as I know they live in India anyway) because Indians tend to be incredible with computers anyway. My wife goes to Capella, working on her degree in accounting, so I know what I'm getting in to. I do what I have to to survive and get ahead in life, because if I can get ahead, I can help my race to do the same again.

      March 28, 2012 at 1:05 pm |
    • Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

      You're not "aware" of anything.

      March 29, 2012 at 10:08 pm |
  4. AGuest9

    The family outcry reminds me of a case in Baltimore 20 years ago where a crack-head and his buddy carjacked a new mother, killing her and throwing her new-born in her car seat into a road. The crack-head's mother went on the local news, crying "My baby was in school!" The people at the Applied Physics Lab still talk of the researcher (a woman with a PhD), and what she could have accomplished and the great mother she would have been, if her life hadn't been taken for nothing.

    March 28, 2012 at 10:01 am |
    • Brad

      AGuest9-

      That pushes quite a few emotional buttons, but for what purpose? No one has suggested that anyone involved was a crack-head or that the case resembles the one you related in any way.

      March 28, 2012 at 1:15 pm |
  5. Atheism is not healthy for children and other living things

    Prayer really changes things
    Proven

    March 28, 2012 at 7:33 am |
    • AGuest9

      Trayvon is still dead, right? So, no, it doesn't.

      March 28, 2012 at 9:32 am |
    • Jesus

      ~Lying is a sin, you've been proven a liar over and over again on this blog. A great example of prayer proven not to work is the Christians in jail because prayer didn't work. For example: Susan Grady, who relied on prayer to heal her son. Nine-year-old Aaron Grady died and Susan Grady was arrested Friday morning...

      An article in the Journal of Pediatrics examined the deaths of 172 children from families who relied upon faith healing from 1975 to 1995. They concluded that four out of five ill children, who died under the care of faith healers or being left to prayer only, would most likely have survived if they had received medical care.

      Plus don't forget. The statistical studies from the nineteenth century and the three CCU studies on prayer are quite consistent with the fact that humanity is wasting a huge amount of time on a procedure that simply doesn’t work. Nonetheless, faith in prayer is so pervasive and deeply rooted, you can be sure believers will continue to devise future studies in a desperate effort to confirm their beliefs.!*

      March 28, 2012 at 10:53 am |
    • just sayin

      guest
      You really have on concept of what prayer is about.

      March 28, 2012 at 11:55 am |
  6. Payers change things

    Payers change things. Prayers do not.
    ~

    March 27, 2012 at 10:13 pm |
  7. Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

    I have no dog in this fight. I'm white as the driven snow and have no reason to excuse criminal behavior on anyone's part, regardless of race. It may well prove to be that Zimmerman is telling the truth, that Martin hit him and that he was defending himself. If so, fine. What I object to is the blatant racism of idiots like Tool, who presume that Martin is guilty simply because he's black. It is equally disgusting to assume that he is not guilty because he's black.

    This is, thankfully, a nation of laws. While not perfect, it's certainly a better bet that justice will be served by the courts than by moronic racists like Urkel.

    March 27, 2012 at 10:10 pm |
    • Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

      My dog is black and I'm his sh!t. Ergo, I'm a black sh!t.

      March 27, 2012 at 11:48 pm |
    • Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

      I deserve to be trolled with quality.

      March 28, 2012 at 7:39 am |
    • nope

      nope.

      March 28, 2012 at 7:41 am |
    • Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

      You don't have a job, do you?

      March 28, 2012 at 7:58 am |
  8. Atheism is not healthy for children and other living things

    Prayer changes things
    Proven

    March 27, 2012 at 9:13 pm |
    • Payers change things

      Payers change things. Prayers do not.

      March 27, 2012 at 10:12 pm |
  9. Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

    Just for sh!ts and giggles, Toolie, how old are you? Considering you couldn't spell "imbecilic" and don't own a computer that has a spell-check worth a sh!t, I'm guessing you're about 17.

    Of course, that would by your chronological age; as for your intellectual age? Hmmm. I'd guess you're around 10.

    March 27, 2012 at 9:05 pm |
    • Urafkntool

      Actually, IF it's any of your business, I'm 34. I'm also a deans list pupil at Ashford University. I'm currently fixing to transfer for a bachelor's program in Information Assurance and Security. The lack of a spell check is due to this being a work computer, not my gaming machine at home or my wife's laptop or desktop. Hell, not even my Android. One misspelled word does not equal anything other than you showing yet again your lack of intellectual capabilities or ability to make a valid point.

      March 27, 2012 at 9:10 pm |
    • Urafkntool

      oh, and in case you're wondering.. no, I'm not the one mimicing you and posting stupid crap. That sort of thing is far, far beneath me.

      March 27, 2012 at 9:10 pm |
    • Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

      It's "mimicking", dear. The fact that you need spell-check is telling.

      March 27, 2012 at 9:21 pm |
    • Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

      So is the fact that you're 34 and still don't have a college degree.

      March 27, 2012 at 9:22 pm |
    • Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

      I've copied your most egregious posts to CNN. I wonder how the august citadel of higher education, Ashford University, would look upon your posts if CNN decided to pursue action.

      March 27, 2012 at 9:30 pm |
    • Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

      I've never met anyone who's 34, educated and bright, who still says he's "fixing" to do anything.

      Guess that must a redneck thing.

      March 27, 2012 at 9:31 pm |
    • Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

      Do tell, oh brilliant scholar who is 34 and still has no degree, where will you pursue this degree in, what is it? Oh, yeah, Information Assurance and Security?

      Harvard?

      Right.

      As if.

      March 27, 2012 at 9:55 pm |
    • Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

      Uh-uh. No response. Why do I suspect that Toolie has been told to get off the damn computer by his mommy, again, because he has school tomorrow?

      What a little sack of pus.

      March 27, 2012 at 10:12 pm |
    • Urafkntool

      Some of us sleep. Anyway, again, not that it's any of YOUR business, but I'm transferring to Capella University in the fall for my bachelors because Ashford doesn't offer what I want. I'll be transferring a 3.9 GPA. So what if I'm 34 and just fixing to start my junior year in college? It often takes people a while to figure out what they want to do for a career.

      March 28, 2012 at 12:15 pm |
    • Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

      You're a loser who couldn't get into a real university, you feeb.

      Get over yourself , you loser. You don't have a clue as to what academia entails. You are barely able to string together a coherent sentence without including "fixing", you little dolt.

      March 29, 2012 at 10:10 pm |
  10. Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

    I'm eatin my cats sh!ts. YUUMMYYY!!!

    March 27, 2012 at 7:47 pm |
    • Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

      I am not surprised. The insane often suffer from pica.

      March 27, 2012 at 9:35 pm |
  11. Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

    According to the news, the kid attacked the mexican dude first. So, I don't see what the problem is. But, I twearn't there so I can't say what happened for sure. I heard justin bieber's on the bandwagon now. What a retard. Hope he upsets a neighborhood watch guy someday. That would ROCK SOLO! HARD IN THE BUTT!!

    This country is full of retards that will jump on any bandwagon without knowing the facts first. No wonder the economy is sh!t. It's run by retards. Down syndrome cri.ppled retards. With your oversized heads and thick necks and everything and.........wait, excuse me I need to change my diaper but will be back soon, promise!

    March 27, 2012 at 7:45 pm |
    • Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

      You can pretend all you wish, little troll, but no one will mistake your posts for mine.

      It's funny to watch you attempt to impersonate a sentient creature, though.

      March 27, 2012 at 8:48 pm |
    • Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

      I meant, *incontinent creature, though.

      My bad, age and obesity reach its toll.

      March 28, 2012 at 12:09 am |
  12. just sayin

    My cats get more action than I do. I can't get any.

    March 27, 2012 at 7:44 pm |
  13. Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

    !

    March 27, 2012 at 7:38 pm |
  14. Reality

    ONLY FOR THE NEWCOMERS

    Where is the rage brought about because of the 2000 years of Christian racist mumbo jumbo (from hatred of the followers of Judaism to those of opposite skin colors) that put us in this scenario to begin with??

    For a good review of anti-sem-itism and Christianity, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_anti-se-mitism.
    (note: Wikipedia's articles typically are very well researched and written. Check the references given in each article to ver-ify the ve-ra-city of the information.

    Added checking can be done by reviewing the same topic posted on on-line encyclopedias, with many of these being free to all those with library cards. Go to your local library's website and look for reference sites like the Power Library.

    And there is always Google, B-ing and Ya-hoo search engines to get up to date information on current events which are also reviewed in many Wikipedia articles. )

    For Christian issues with a person's skin color, let us start with those Christians who call themselves Mormons,

    "According to Mormon history and authoritative Mormon teachers, the Ne-gro, as they were referred to, are a cur-sed race because they were not faithful to God in their first estate (the pre-existent life with God). Hence, when they are born they are born in black ski-nned families.

    The early Mormon church was highly prej-udicial against black people. And though there has been a change in att-itude to blacks as of June 9, 1978 when they were finally allowed into the Mormon priesthood, it cannot be denied that Mormonism was, up until very recently, a seg-regated church."

    And you still have all-white Christian churches and all-black Christian churches throughout the USA where sk-in color and seg-regation are still part of the operating procedures.

    Some words hyphenated to defeat the "secret" word/fragment filter.

    March 27, 2012 at 6:15 pm |
  15. Atheism is not healthy for children and other living things

    Prayer changes things .

    March 27, 2012 at 6:08 pm |
    • Jesus

      ~Lying is a sin, you've been proven a liar over and over again on this blog. A great example of prayer proven not to work is the Christians in jail because prayer didn't work. For example: Susan Grady, who relied on prayer to heal her son. Nine-year-old Aaron Grady died and Susan Grady was arrested Friday morning...

      An article in the Journal of Pediatrics examined the deaths of 172 children from families who relied upon faith healing from 1975 to 1995. They concluded that four out of five ill children, who died under the care of faith healers or being left to prayer only, would most likely have survived if they had received medical care.

      Plus don't forget. The statistical studies from the nineteenth century and the three CCU studies on prayer are quite consistent with the fact that humanity is wasting a huge amount of time on a procedure that simply doesn’t work. Nonetheless, faith in prayer is so pervasive and deeply rooted, you can be sure believers will continue to devise future studies in a desperate effort to confirm their beliefs.!

      March 27, 2012 at 6:29 pm |
  16. just sayin

    I think there should be more cats here.

    March 27, 2012 at 6:04 pm |
    • just sayin

      it still wants to be me

      March 27, 2012 at 6:09 pm |
  17. jj

    Thank you CNN for finally gathering all the opinion pieces under the heading "Blogs."

    March 27, 2012 at 4:23 pm |
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