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Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)
1. If only prayers helped
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:20 PM
Dec 2012

those children would still be alive.

But God does not play dice with the universe;

God IS the dice of the universe.

 

Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)
3. Why would an omnipotent "god" allow or cause a massacre of children?
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:21 PM
Dec 2012

I don't get this line of thinking.

I would never "worship" such a malevolent being.

Glad to be a non-believer on this day ...

shadowrider

(4,941 posts)
6. You are welcome to your opinion, I'm welcome to mine
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 09:23 PM
Dec 2012

I mourn for the children and the parents who must, tonight, go to sleep without their child they had this morning.

I happen to believe in a higher being. You may not.

No harm, no foul.

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