I watched Bill O’Reilly’s show last night on Fox News. The Big Mick was going on about how the successful ditching of that plane in the Hudson River, and the rescue of all on board, must have been a miracle.<\/p>\n
I’d be curious to see O’Reilly’s mailbag on that. Somewhere out there in TV-land there must have been someone watching who’d lost a loved one in a plane crash. That person would surely have been thinking to himself:\u00a0 “Wait a minute here, pal. My wife was as worthy of life as anyone. She was a loving wife and mother, a patriotic and hard-working citizen. Why didn’t she<\/em> deserve one of these miracles your God hands out so capriciously?<\/p>\n Don’t religious people understand that when they talk like this, they are implicitly insulting people? This<\/em> planeload of people was deserving of God’s attention and a subsequent miracle, but that<\/em> one wasn’t? Why?<\/p>\n And above and beyond that, to the point Heather has made at least once:\u00a0 If God is so darn capricious in His judgments, how exactly is life with<\/em> Him different from life without<\/em> Him? The randomness of events like this doesn’t prove there is no God, but surely it proves that there might as well not be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I watched Bill O’Reilly’s show last night on Fox News. The Big Mick was going on about how the successful ditching of that plane in the Hudson River, and the rescue of all on board, must have been a miracle. … Continue reading