<blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica ,sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by blanp:
From a story in USA Todayabout Atlantic Monthly writer William Langewiesche:<p>***Bowls me right over. Clearly, God Himself had a hand in that.***<hr></blockquote><p>
Why do disasters seem to wipe out all critical thinking within a 10-mile radius? <p>You know that cross-shaped wreckage that they found at the World Trade Center site? <p>I have no problem with the fact that some people of faith found consolation in that symbol. People needed all the consolation they could get. <p>But it seemed strange that some insisted on it being divine intervention. Assuming that 99% of the crossbeams in the buildings were cross-shaped, what are the odds? <p>I find it disturbing to think that a Supreme Being would be thinking something like: "Let's see, I could either avert this terrible disaster and keep 3000 people from a horrible death ... or ... Hmm, I could make a cross appear in the wreckage to console them. But of course, the Jewish victims wouldn't get it ..." <p>I wish that hack journalists would at least go interview some hack theologian instead of coming up with this weird stuff on their own.