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God punishes group for poor praying

There can only be one lesson to learn from all this. The lord is vengeful! Vengeful! Tell me who to smite o Lord and he shall be smitten!
 
Reminds me of a few years back when a tornado or lightening hit a town and the only building hit was the local church. Nice going, Yahweh! (sarcasm)
 
triadboy said:
Reminds me of a few years back when a tornado or lightening hit a town and the only building hit was the local church. Nice going, Yahweh! (sarcasm)
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Maybe Pat Robertson was praying for it to miss them.
 
triadboy said:
Reminds me of a few years back when a tornado or lightening hit a town and the only building hit was the local church. Nice going, Yahweh! (sarcasm)
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*Highfive's triadboy*

Score 1 for the Y! *crowd cheers*

(Sarcasm disclaimer: The above was sarcasm.)
 
Tricky said:

Maybe Pat Robertson was praying for it to miss them.
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"Dear God,

I know you havent exactly been answering my prayers in quite the way I expected, but that's because you work in mysterious ways and you have a plan for everyone. But please, PLEASE, let me live a long and prosperous life.

Thanks,
Pat

(PS, I never want to be eaten by alligators.)"
 
Kids dead and hurt many suffering.. Not really that funny I believe.:(

Don't we rish sounding or acting like the hate filled people from "God hates fags"?
Just what I believe.
 
c4ts said:
There can only be one lesson to learn from all this. The lord is vengeful! Vengeful! Tell me who to smite o Lord and he shall be smitten!
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I'm very smitten mister C4ts. Very smitten indeed.
 
I agree that there is irony in the story.

But I do not see the humor in it.
 
Brown said:
I agree that there is irony in the story.

But I do not see the humor in it.
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I agree.


For the most part, the xians are being sensible about it,
You know, as unfortunate as all this is, I really don't think the side of the highway is the place to stop and pray... There are all sorts of insane drivers out there.
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but
some aren't
I don't mean to make like of the incident, but what would be a greater way to die then to die while praying to the Lord.
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I have to admit. I did laugh. The headline had taken me totally by surprise. And what the heck were these kids doing by the side of the road praying? It would be like peeing or picnic-ing; you don't stop and crouch down by the side of the road.
The driver wasn't charged.... so it means the driver was not at fault then? Is that what it means?
 
It's basically annoying to me, and partially tragic. Just like people with the God-fish-thing on their car, plus all sorts of holy-roller bumper stickers, driving like they are the only ones on the road. My thoughts at times like that are that, sure, they may go to heaven when they die, but keep driving like that and they will be there a lot sooner than they expected. Substituting "God" for "brains", perhaps.

Maybe it was the same for these cyclists.
 
Sure it's tragic. And sure it's funny. If the line between tragedy and comedy weren't so blurred, then The Darwin Awards™ would never be so popular.
 
Tricky said:
Sure it's tragic. And sure it's funny. If the line between tragedy and comedy weren't so blurred, then The Darwin Awards™ would never be so popular.
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hello my great friend.

I hear what you are saying and believe it to a point but mors as to the point of how silly it is to fear death etc.

But when laughing at something like this we must think first "what if I was standing there because I was called there due to the fact the dead child was MY child, my baby"

Can we laugh then?

For me I can not laugh at the suffering of anyone.
 
Pahansiri said:


hello my great friend.

I hear what you are saying and believe it to a point but mors as to the point of how silly it is to fear death etc.

But when laughing at something like this we must think first "what if I was standing there because I was called there due to the fact the dead child was MY child, my baby"

Can we laugh then?

For me I can not laugh at the suffering of anyone.
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Here we differ, my friend. I cannot weep at the fall of every sparrow. Let's face it. A large volume of humor is based on the misfortune, even misery of others. Charlie Chaplin used it to great effect.

Obviously I don't wish for the death of anyone, but neither can I be horrified by the death of people who were behaving foolishly. There is a famous episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show where everybody is joking about the odd ending of the life of a clown. Mary is horrified! How could you joke about the death of another. Then at the funeral, she is chosen to read the eulogy, and she begins to laugh uncontrollably. Yes, death can be funny. This does not mean that I am not empathic to survivors.

Though I am from Alabama, I still laugh when I hear that old joke:

You might be a redneck if you have a relative whose last words were, "Hey, y'all watch this!"
 
Again I greatly respect you and what you believe but you did not answer my question.

Say you were sitting there and you heard this story on the radio sitting with friends at work. Your response was to make some jokes and say hey they deserved it.


Then the phone rings and it is your wife, she is crying uncontrollably you get her to calm down and tell you what is wrong. She tells you your teen-age daughter decided to try running with this group of kids and her best friend who was on the team.

The dead child was yours.

Can you still joke and laugh and say your child deserved it and should be laughed at?


Praying was not their dumb move doing it on the side of a road was but no matter how dumb someone is I can not laugh at their suffering.

That is just what I believe and do not sit here in judgment of you or anyone I can only speak for me.
 
Pahansiri said:
Again I greatly respect you and what you believe but you did not answer my question.

Say you were sitting there and you heard this story on the radio sitting with friends at work. Your response was to make some jokes and say hey they deserved it.


Then the phone rings and it is your wife, she is crying uncontrollably you get her to calm down and tell you what is wrong. She tells you your teen-age daughter decided to try running with this group of kids and her best friend who was on the team.

The dead child was yours.

Can you still joke and laugh and say your child deserved it and should be laughed at?
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This may strike you as incredibly heartless, but I believe I could eventually laugh at the situation. Obviously I would be grief stricken by the death of my child. But I do not believe I would harbor any resentment towards people who did not know my child and found humor in the situation.

Pahansiri said:
Praying was not their dumb move doing it on the side of a road was but no matter how dumb someone is I can not laugh at their suffering.

That is just what I believe and do not sit here in judgment of you or anyone I can only speak for me.
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I am not laughing at their suffering. I am laughing at the irony of the situation. I know you are extending empathy towards the grieving families, but you simply don't know them. Should you also extend empathy to the families of all bereaved people worldwide? Can you not laugh at the Three Stooges because you have some empathy for someone who lost an eye? If I could not laugh because someone in the world is suffering, then I could never laugh.
 
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