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Lightning kills praying children

Gulliamo

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Sweet Jeebus! At first I laughed and thought this was the inverse of the "atheist attorney gets struck by lightning" myth. Then I realized it was five actual children who were probably there because their parents told them to be and I was a bit horrified.

Do you think the believers(TM) think this was a "sign from God" or that the children (or their parents) somehow "deserved it"?
 
Maybe they were praying to get struck by lightning?

Or perhaps God was busy counting the hairs on someone's head at the time?

OK, so it was a freak natural event. But it does make one doubt the possibility of a divine benevolent being doesn't it?

Anyway it's a sad event, and I hope those that were injured recover soon, and completely.
 
Of course it is sad. Almost as sad though is that few Christians will see the irony here. I mean, the "bolt of lightning" has been the traditional symbol of God's vengance since long before Christianity. There is simply no way this can be blamed on "the evil of man". Will it cause any Christians to consider the possibility that their belief in God is not rational, based on God's apparant lack of respect for prayer? I doubt it. Many will even thank God for letting the children enter heaven while in a perfect state of bliss. That is what is really sad.
 
God was so happy with their vigorous prayer session, he decided to take them off to heaven to be with him right away.

Yeah...that's the ticket.
 
Oh, except for the little fellows who were badly injured.

God was warning them to stop "pretend praying" just to fit in.
 
[bad-taste]

Missed the priest by THAT much!

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[bad-taste]
 
This is so sickeningly funny that.....I would feel bad, but any idiot should know you shouldn't make giant monuments like that out of metal. Sorry, but come on.
 
Zbu said:
This is so sickeningly funny that.....I would feel bad, but any idiot should know you shouldn't make giant monuments like that out of metal. Sorry, but come on.
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Or to pray at it during lightening...
 
Tricky said:
. . . There is simply no way this can be blamed on "the evil of man". Will it cause any Christians to consider the possibility that their belief in God is not rational, based on God's apparant lack of respect for prayer?. . .
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I have known many who will blame the "sin" on the parents or other relatives who must have "deserved to have their children taken from them." My own mother repeatedly told me when I was a child that if I made fun of <insert archetype here> that my children would have <said archetype>. For example at the age of seven I made fun of a retard and my mother said, "Don't laugh or your children will turn out that way." Well, ha, she was wrong! My children are fine... it's my boss... just joking.
 
As the tallest buildings around for centuries, churches and cathedrals were often struck by lightning and were among the first structures to have lightning conductors fitted.

Sad that the builders of this cross seem to have been ignorant of this.
 
You are all disregarding the obvious: This was not an act of God; this was an act of Satan.
 
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