Can we fucking stop with the “Stop praying, talk to your elected official” rhetoric that’s spreading after what happened to our kin at Orlando?

For people that choose to, prayer is a vent. There’s a difference between “thoughts and prayers” as an ineffectual, flaccid term you throw at the newest disaster, and solemnly considering religious discourse as a means of belief, instrument of change or therapeutic process.

OF COURSE, we must not just pray. But set the message right. Marginalizing the ways that people deal with stress for your choice of discourse as an all-or-nothing concept is not just flawed, binary thinking: it’s also potentially dangerous.

The head & the heart: let both be heard.