Worth A Look

For some thoughts on the relationship of faith, God, & the Sandy Hook tragedy, you might want to look at Stephen Prothero, "Six things I don't want to hear after the Sandy Hook massacre."  The six things he doesn't want to hear are:

• "It was God's will."
• "Jesus called the children home.”
• “After death, there is the resurrection.”
• “This was God’s judgment.”
• “This happened because America is too secular.”
• “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.”

He concludes, "If you believe in a God who is all powerful and all good, then covering up for the Almighty at a time like this is in my view deeply unfaithful. Today is a day to shake your fist at heaven and demand answers, and then to shake it harder when no answers are forthcoming. To do anything else is in my view to diminish the idea of God, and to cheapen faith in the process." The whole posting is worth a read.