{"id":1523,"date":"2009-02-13T07:48:45","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T15:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2009-02-13T08:41:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T16:41:28","slug":"please-explain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/please-explain\/","title":{"rendered":"Please explain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will Bill O\u2019Reilly or anyone else who saw the hand of God in the safe landing of US Airways Flight 1549 this January please explain why God chose not to save Continental Connection Flight 3407, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/29173163\/\">plunged into a house <\/a>outside of Buffalo last night, killing all 49 people on board and a resident on the ground?<\/p>\n<p>Among the explanations which will not be accepted: \u201chumans cannot possibly fathom God\u2019s mysterious ways.\u201d\u00a0 Oh yes they can, apparently\u2014when something good happens.\u00a0 Having found proof of God\u2019s love in the safe conclusion of US Airways Flight 1549, believers cannot now turn around and claim that God\u2019s ways are veiled just because something disastrous happens.\u00a0 If it\u2019s legitimate to infer beneficence from a happy outcome, it is equally plausible to infer malice or at least indifference from a negative outcome.\u00a0 You can\u2019t pick and choose the actions in which you find God\u2019s will transparent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Bill O\u2019Reilly or anyone else who saw the hand of God in the safe landing of US Airways Flight 1549 this January please explain why God chose not to save Continental Connection Flight 3407, which plunged into a house &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/please-explain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[169],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}