(steven...you may just want to skip this post.)as prologue: this is the type of shit that pisses me off...
so i'm home over lunch, listening to msnbc as i'm known to do. amongst all the chatter over the stimulus package and the house and senate voting, there is a lot of coverage following the plane crash of flight 3407 in buffalo, ny.
let me begin by saying... i can't even imagine. believe it or not...but a fear of a plane crashing into my home is actually on my list of phobias. obviously, it's not something that happens often. but obviously....it happens.
so msnbc is speaking with a woman who lives about a block from where the plane crashed and they ask for what she witnessed.
"i heard the plane and i knew immediately that something wasn't right. so i started to pray for those individuals that god would watch over them."
well, guess what? god must've been busy. 49 people died on the plane and 1 on the ground.
then she was asked what she felt. "tell us what you felt."
and she started talking about how god must've been looking out for all the people in her community because...all things considered....with the closeness of the houses and the plane coming down.... god was clearly looking out for everyone and had a hand in the miracle since more people were not killed or injured.
so my question for this woman is this: what did the individuals on the plane do? what did the person on the ground do? why did god decide, "yeah, fuck 'em" but not them? why was god looking out for every other individual but those 50?
and what about the woman who was a widow of a 9/11 victim? what did their entire family do that god would take two individuals from this one family in such horrific ways?
were they atheists? all of them....? jews? muslims?
what did they do? why did god look over all of these other individuals but not these 50? what were their crimes?
it pisses me off when people say that shit....
why was god not protecting everybody.....? shouldn't that be the question?
or maybe there simply is no god and the universe is violent and haphazard and sometimes bad shit happens to good people and other times good things happen to shitty people?
but whatever you believe... please...! stop saying god was looking out for everyone... because then you insinuate that god was not looking out for those who died. and how should their loved ones feel about that?
e.
2 comments:
ah. a subject near and dear to my dark little atheist heart. it's the circular logic of belief: if you die, it was your time. you're with jesus! if you don't, god was watching over you. evidence of a fickle and cruel god, as far as i'm concerned. furthermore, it is a blatant win-win myth for the believer. once you know that, however, isn't it just, i don't know, insulting?
Well i am happy to see you blogged on this topic, as i was thinking about it. Indeed, why was god not watching out for those 49 folks on the plane? But,apparently WAS watching out for 2 of the 3 people in the house. 2 outta 3. Couldn't do one more?
Maybe god was tired of all the hero talk about the plane landing in the Hudson, and thought..."I'll show them who's boss!"
Would god be so petty?
Yes, epephenita, it is insulting.
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