Thursday, January 31, 2002
Since I mentioned Sept. 11th, here's another opinion, this is a quote from Anne Graham Lotz (Yup, Billy's daughter)...
(Paraphrase)
"I believe that God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are; but for years we've been shaking our fist at God, telling him to get out of our schools, to get out of our government, to get out of our marketplaces, and to get out of our lives; and being the gentleman that he is, I believe that he has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us his blessing and his protection if we demand he leave us alone?"
Isn't that nice? Its our own fault that all those innocent people died, even the god fearing in the buildings and on the planes? But the surprising part about it really is how she doesn't assume free will. That's how most every Christian defends the question of how god can sit idlely by while unspeakable acts of evil are wrought upon the innocent thru out the globe. It's said that one of god's gifts is free will and we are masters of our own fate. We reap what we sow in biblical terms. Well that's just a wheelbarrow full of crap ain't it. Tommorrow, if I can find the bloody thing, I'm going to post Richard Dawkins take on what I think is the real reason this tragedy occured, religious fanatisicm. It's funny and poignant, stay tuned.
In the meantime, if you want to read the the whole gist of Anne Lotz's interview on the Early Show, press'er below ..
Anne Lotz Interview with Jane Clayson on CBS's Early Show Sept. 13, 2001
(Paraphrase)
"I believe that God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are; but for years we've been shaking our fist at God, telling him to get out of our schools, to get out of our government, to get out of our marketplaces, and to get out of our lives; and being the gentleman that he is, I believe that he has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us his blessing and his protection if we demand he leave us alone?"
Isn't that nice? Its our own fault that all those innocent people died, even the god fearing in the buildings and on the planes? But the surprising part about it really is how she doesn't assume free will. That's how most every Christian defends the question of how god can sit idlely by while unspeakable acts of evil are wrought upon the innocent thru out the globe. It's said that one of god's gifts is free will and we are masters of our own fate. We reap what we sow in biblical terms. Well that's just a wheelbarrow full of crap ain't it. Tommorrow, if I can find the bloody thing, I'm going to post Richard Dawkins take on what I think is the real reason this tragedy occured, religious fanatisicm. It's funny and poignant, stay tuned.
In the meantime, if you want to read the the whole gist of Anne Lotz's interview on the Early Show, press'er below ..
Anne Lotz Interview with Jane Clayson on CBS's Early Show Sept. 13, 2001
