Do Tragedies Like 9/11 Disprove The Existence Of A Christian God?
Questions on evil, free will and a loving, all powerful deity
I was watching a Conservative news network awhile back (please don’t ask me why) and a certain Christian pseudo-historian was talking about a church that’s located at Ground Zero in New York City where George Washington was said to have made a covenant with God on behalf of America. He went on to say that the fact that the church was unharmed on 9/11 is proof of how important and sacred it is to God.
The more I thought about it, the more appalled I was. You’re telling me that God cared more about a church building than about the 3,000 people that were brutally murdered on that day? God supposedly protected a church, but didn’t lift a finger to save all those innocent people? What kind of a fucked up mentality is that? More importantly, what does that tell you about the kind of God Christians propose to follow?
Some fundamentalist Christians even view 9/11 as a punishment for America's “sins” of allowing abortion and homosexuality. It’s completely sickening. So where does a loving God fit into that narrative? A God that would brutally murder 3,000 people in order to punish the United States? That doesn’t sound very loving to me.
