Lightning Strykez!
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I'm surprised to hear that.
A really bad one was after 9/11.
Some people were in the building and survived, and I heard many of them in interviews say things like, "This is proof there's a God 'cause an angel saved me that day. There's no way I could've survived under that rubble.
But I prayed to God, "Please don't let this be the end!", and this is proof that God answers prayer, 'cause here I am!"
So, Don't you think nearly every single PERSON in the building prayed that same prayer?
The only conclusion is, these people believe that:
1) They are chosen by God, with some innate "higher purpose" on Earth, so the other 3,000 people were comparatively meaningless in the "Grand Scheme"...so God didn't see any good reason to intervene and save them.
or
2) The other 3,000 people were wicked sinners and God wouldn't answer their prayers, but he liked the people who survived.
MaLaRkY
But a lot of that is fueled by the Churches--and that's why so many of them disgust me with their teachings. They are the ones that push that kind of thinking. Some blamed God for 9/11 because they claimed America is being punished for taking prayer out of schools, and declining morals. Some ministers stated that Hurricane Katrina took New Orleans out because it's a gambling city of low morals. So I'm like, "What gonna hit Las Vegas then?"
It's like a priest telling a grieving mother "God took your little one because He needed another Angel in heaven." My reply? "Well, if God needed him/her so badly why didn't he just create him/her as such to begin with and keep them in Heaven from jump? Why tease/torture the mother with 9 months-plus of anticipation and delivering it?" No God of Love would subject his people to that kind of pain on purpose.
Translation: God doesn't need your baby.
