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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
I view it as an amusing paradox. When one devotes themselves to ANY set of beliefs, they are going to always remain consistent with and behave in a manner consistent with those beliefs. The paradox in this case, is that for one person to have God on his side, directly implies that the others (i.e. victims) do not. If you've devoted your life to an idea (or any belief system which guys your life) such as that which says that God is in control, you can't just simply abandon it as that would shatter in one moment everything you know and your understanding of everything. For example, his mother no doubt remains consistent with her belief that her son is innocent. That is unlikely to change and has nothing to do with religion. The shit she spews from a religious standpoint is merely a convenient coping mechanism to further enable and reinforce her denial.
And to be fair, he seems to have very very little support for those he knows in the church circles.
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My experience is that many church goers talk a good game, but don't really stand by you unless it makes them look good.
Case in point. A friend of my brother's oldest daughter got married a few months after graduating high school. She was 18 and grew up in the church. The church celebrated their marriage (he was 22 at the time and none in the church had any issue with a 20 year old guy dating a 16-year old girl when they first started going out two years earlier). Anyway, many people from the church came to the wedding, gave gifts and even turned up to help them move into their new place after the wedding. She was a virgin and literally moved from her bedroom in her parent's house into her marriage home. It was an amazing love story that the church celebrated.
Then several months later it turns out living together is hard. He drinks a lot (but had kept it hidden from her before) and they eventually separate and get divorced within a year and a half of getting married. He was the one that left her and refused to try to fix their problems. When it came time for her to move out nobody from the church showed up to help. At the church many people stopped talking to her and kind of shunned her because she "hadn't been a good wife."
They loved the idea of her getting married, but had no common sense that it could turn out bad then when it did turn out bad they turned on her.
These people are praying for Donnie and that is all they will do. They already had the chance to donate money and didn't. If Donnie is convicted you know many of them will suddenly be like, "I knew all along something was wrong."