Thoughts and prayers don’t deserve the bad rap
Thoughts and prayers have been getting a bad rap lately.
Commentators are trashing them as over-used, empty and meaningless.
They’re referring to the sympathies offered by politicians when a large number of people die in a natural disaster, act of terrorism or mass shooting, the ones that are sent out to the families of the victims over social media or in official statements.
One of my fellow columnists recently compared them to pixie dust.