Some people on this newsgroup think I'm "against" Christians or
Christianity. Well, I'm sure not against Christians like shantanud and the
good people and good works he describes.

Tempting as it is, this isn't the time to argue over theodicy; it's time to
reflect and help as much as we're able.

Didymus

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 wrote in message news:4yJCd.25268$L7.11864{at}trnddc05...
> REFLECTING ON A TRAGEDY
>
.....
> However, tell that to the tens of thousands of people who lost their
> homes and their loved ones. God did not protect them. Many have
> perished. Among them many Christians. Very difficult questions that
> cannot be answered with theological clich s. They are questions to be
> raised and heard and to be pondered without jumping to a quick fix
> answer. There is one question, however, that we have to ask
> ourselves--we as Christians: what is our part in this? How can we help?
> We Christians are, after all, God's hands and God's mouth in this
> world. How can we help bring God's comfort to thousands of devastated
> people, how can we help God carry them through?
....
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