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[lykomancer]

34 year-old Wal-Mart employee was trampled to death this morning by frenzied shoppers.




...when Ed read this to me, I asked if he was kidding.

When I realized he wasn't, I cradled my head in my hands and cried.


I don't have words enough to express my grief and anger and shame.


I told Ed the other day that I thought that the Catholics got the symbolism right, using a bloody crucifix instead of an empty cross. Jesus still suffers. Jesus dies every day, every minute-- starvation and war, murder and overdose and car accidents. Jesus is raped and beaten. Jesus is pepper-sprayed by the cops and shot for being black.

Jesus gets trampled to death by people who need to get their goddamned X-Boxes to celebrate His birthday.



Please help me pass this forward. Please share my horror and hurt. I can't bear this alone.



Jesus began to weep. - John 11:35, NRSV.

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[lykomancer.livejournal.com]

I can't even imagine it. It makes me nauseous, the thought of dying like that. Of trying to breathe and having people crash down on your ribs, break and bloody your nose. Of trying to scream and getting your teeth shattered. Feeling your knees pop under other someone's Nikes. *shudders* Jesus.

I wish to God there was some way of nailing everyone through those doors with manslaughter charges for the man killed, and whatever else they could add to that for the miscarriage caused.