Aurora shooting inspires various perspectives on God and belief

[cbayer]

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_21293230/aurora-shooting-inspires-various-perspectives-god-and-belief?source=email

POSTED: 08/12/2012 12:01:00 AM MDT
UPDATED: 08/12/2012 04:24:36 PM MDTBy Electa Draper
The Denver Post


Pastor Gregory McDonald of Calvary Temple Church, right, leads a group in prayer beside a pine cross one week after the Aurora theater shooting. (Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post)

AURORA — For almost every person who believes God protects you in your darkest hours — even interfering with a bullet's path — there is another who wonders if it's not only delusional but even offensive to think God personally intervenes to spare one innocent but not another.

Victims of the July 20 Aurora movie-theater shooting — 12 died and 58 were injured — have spoken often of faith, prayer, God's plan and their part in it.

Evil acts on faith, sometimes stripping it away but more often, experts say, deepening what one already believes about God and a divine role in tragedy.

Ninety-five percent of Americans believe in God, according to several recent religious

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[skepticscott]

1. Weak, emotionally needy people

can concoct all sorts of tortured and convoluted arguments to keep "god" in the picture, no matter how much the world looks just as you'd expect if there were none such.

Did you have ANY point in posting this other than to demonstrate that for the umpteenth time?

[Xipe Totec]

4. Wow, that's pretty arrogant

And I'm not referring to your first sentence but your second.

If you had stopped after the first sentence, you might have gotten a well deserved approving response. But the second statement nullified it by turning a considered point of view of the subject into a personal judgment of the poster, thereby focusing attention on yourself instead.

What was your motivation?

What were you trying to demonstrate by belittling the OP; demanding a justification for the post?

If you think the OP is pointless, what does it say about your own reply?

[skepticscott]

5. To point out

the OP's incessant habit of uncritically posting feel-goody drivel from anywhere she can find it, in order to promote her agenda here. When you post someone else's nonsense, with the intent of influencing other people's thinking, it becomes your nonsense, and you're as liable to be criticized for it as the original author.

Any other questions?

[Confusious]

2. As I've said before

god will show up on a piece of toast, but when you really need him (holocaust) he skips town.

He's always around to collect the cash though.

Definition of a grifter.

PS. The statistics are off, probably for the sake of the article.

a Poll showed that, nationally, 78% believed in God, 15% in "A universal spirit or higher power", 6% answering "neither", and 1% unsure.(2008)

They lumped "higher power" in with god. "higher power" could mean your cat. I know mine was the "higher power" in my life. Along with the ex-girlfriend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreligion_in_the_United_States

[cbayer]

3. Lol. Or perhaps he just has a laissez-faire attitude and intervenes very rarely.

Who knows?

[dimbear]

6. God made a conscious decision to act as if He does not exist, or

so it would appear.