NEW YORK (AP) — The second of two New York City police officers to be buried after a daylight ambush will be mourned at a funeral this weekend.
Aievoli (ay’-vee-OH’-lee) Funeral Home says viewing and visitation for Officer Wenjian Liu (WEHN’-jihn LOO’) will be held from 1 to 9 p.m. Saturday, and his funeral will be at 10 a.m. Sunday. Both will be at the funeral home in Brooklyn.
Vice President Joe Biden and thousands of officers were among those who remembered Liu’s partner, Officer Rafael Ramos (rah-fy-EHL’ RAH’-mohs), at a funeral Saturday.
Liu and Ramos were shot to death inside their patrol car Dec. 20 by a gunman who had posted online about plans to attack police.
The funeral arrangements for Liu took some time, as he had relatives traveling from China.
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It will be interesting to see if the the guy’s religion and funeral ceremony comply with the Christian right wingers if he’s not Christian.
Who care what the Westboro nuts and such have to say? And there will likely be radical Atheists who will ridicule the service too. Ignore the idiots.
Who are these radical atheists you mention? Why is it so likely they will ridicule the service? Has anyone prominently associated with atheism ever done anything remotely like that? Answers in the form of links to reliable news sources describing a similar event to what you predict, please.
Not this specific service publicly, nor will Westboro (they did not protest Officer Ramos service either). So it was a silly notion for the person to even bring up because it’s not going to happen. That was more or less my point. Even FOX News is not going to make fun of Liu’s service, no matter what his religion is. So Atheists won’t protest this service either. Plus I would note most services Westboro protested were Christian services. Can you show me examples of Christian’s mocking a religious service that was not Christian on TV? No. But of course many do. Just like many Atheists ridicule any religious service. It just does not make it on to TV.
Anti-religious nuts are just as annoying as religious nuts. Yes, the people shown here are radical atheist nuts. Sophomoric nonsense, just as silly as what they are protesting.
There an article a couple of days ago on here about some trashy couple who made a Zombie Nativity scene. Childish idiocy for attention craving clowns. No different than the idiots who have to have 6,000 Christmas lights to show how they love Jesus. Privately many atheists will mock any funeral. I’ve encountered many at funerals in a church who show no respect.
There are Atheists who claim Jesus did not even exist. Just dumb. Or they claim he was black, which is a silly as claiming he was white.
It’s like the First Amendment does not even exist. Live and let live. I’m not religious but have no special desire to ridicule people who are, and apparently the people who wrote the Constitution felt the same way. They were not all religious, but they decided that people had a right to be.
Golly, MrComments, that’s a fair bit of verbiage, but exactly none of it responds to the questions I posed to your original comment: Who are these radical atheists you mention? Why is it so likely they will ridicule the service? Has anyone prominently associated with atheism ever done anything remotely like that?
Links, please. Or STFU.