primitives upset about Boy Scout tragedy in Iowa

[Chris_]

"We can thank God in his Mercy that more childen were not Killed"

I have to agree that this is not exactly the best statement one can come up with when they are most likely friends or aquaintences of the parents of the children who were killed. Kind of the equivilent of "God spared my child."

Ouch.

Were my son one of those killed, I would still be thankful that other's sons were not killed.

[Flame]

Part of me wants to give the DUmmies a bit of a pass on this. There is no harder part of the belief in God than trying to wrap your head around why bad things happen to good people. Why do children have to die and suffer? I've seen things like this drive people from their faith.

a line  from one of my favorite songs goes "Sometimes He calms the storm, other times He calms his child".   I just get a picutre in my head of Him holding us close to him while a hurricane type storm blows around us.  No, the storm/tragedy isn't going away, but He is still there, holding us.

[Airwolf]

I find it easier to forgive a person for thought like that then to forgive most of those DUmmies  outrage over it