Why wasn't God watching over the 1,261 men who have died, but

[librarycard]

watched over the guy in the article below and let him live? Any fundamentalists out there care to respond? I've often wondered this during Super Bowl wins, why God would chose one team over another.

http://www.gazetteextra.com/borman120204.asp

[lutherj]

1. In the words of Henry Ford...

"religion is a bunch of hooey"

[LiberalFighter]

2. Because gw* is too busy?

[Ksec]

3. I read we lost 10% of our soldiers in Iraq

I read that weve lost ten & of our troops in Iraq. Thats just fukin vulgar.

[lebkuchen]

4. Define "lost." Does that include the brain damaged?

I know that the 1ID, which has been deployed since March, has lost at least 60. That division may have sent over 20,000.

It ain't Kosovo, but it ain't 10% either, and the 1ID has been in the thick of it.

[proudbluestater]

5. Here's my take, after extensive reading on the subject

Although I can't explain how God chooses a Super Bowl winner, my belief is (and please, I'm not a fundie or anything), that each of us is put on the earth to perform certain functions. Once we have completed the goals set forth for us, it is time for us to return to God.

You might not be interested, but there are some great books out there on the afterlife and those who have "died" and come back. One extremely compelling book is by Betty Eadie, called Embracing the Light.

In it, she asked her spiritual guide about a drunk guy lying in a gutter. Supposedly, we all as spirits choose our mission in life. She asked, what would be the purpose of choosing to spend your life in the gutter as a drunk? The answer was, "he is here to teach others." Turned out, in the book, that he was encountered by a lawyer who was moved to do good works for others after discovering the drunk in the gutter.

Believe if you want, or not. I truly believe we all have a purpose to serve here. It may not be that we are here for our own gratification. Possibly we're here to teach others as well.

Getting off my soapbox!

[ReadTomPaine]

8. Reading suggestion - "Demon Haunted World" by Carl Sagan

You'll enjoy it quite a bit.

RTP

[theHandpuppet]

6. God's too busy watching football...

... and making sure some self-important meatball gives Him credit for making a touchdown pass. Famine, war, genocide, poverty et al, this God -- just like Babs Bush -- doesn't want to sully his beautiful mind with such unpleasant realities. After all, even if he saves one child from starving in Ethiopia the kid won't get a post-game interview on national TV where he can THANK GOD for that crumb of bread. People might question why an omnipotent God gave one starving child a crumb and not the untold thousands who die slow and agonizing deaths from the lack of same.

So remember folks, if a tornado rips through your town and you're the only survivor, be sure to THANK GOD for the miracle because God so obviously loves you a helluva lot more than your neighbors and family who just got crushed in their collapsed homes. If your child survives a cancer, remember to THANK GOD for the miracle because He obviouly loves your child more than the others who suffered and died anyway. And when your son comes back from Iraq brain damaged and in a wheelchair, THANK GOD for looking out after him rather than the ten of his buddies who got blown to bits or those Iraqi kids who just got napalmed.

And now, in the words of the Lord, ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?

[PsychoDad]

7. We are the ones given choice.

We choose to kill each other. We choose to horde wealth instead of helping others. We choose to send our children to war. We choose to go to iraq to fight a people who have never threatened us.

God, the creator and sustainer of the worlds created us with the ability to choose between good and evil. The choice to help or to harm our brothers and sisters in humanity.

Make no mistake, God has watched over the victims and the oppresors in this conflict.

As a Muslim, I do not belive that death is the end. In this life, we were given a simple choice, to help others or to harm others. On that basis we will be judged.

At this moment in history great wrong is being done to the earth and to all the creatures on it... Have we tryed to stop it with our actions or words? Did we at least know it was wrong in our hearts?

Or did we not care.

Yes, I do belive God watches, and one day we will be asked about what God saw.

Was that a fundi enough an answer for you ? ;)