Not exact matches
Overall, a
human and costly
tragedy that probably will finally
bring down not only the RCC but all religions because said religions are
human - based and therefore flawed.
nothing makes the atheist more ticked off more than when you
bring up GOD... God gets all the blame for all the
tragedy in the world... If there wasnt a god in the first place,
humans would not know
tragedy or injustice when we see it... it would be a non-issue to us... survival of the fittest would not permit the emotions of love, compassion, empathy... Darwininian theory could not allow any of those and many other of the best of people's capacity for caring to surface... You cant explain it away by synapse or neurons... without a Supreme Being, there would be no sense of justice or injustice, we would not call it anything because there is no Ultimate Moral Standard to compare it.
Christian Scientists generally would agree that
bringing prayer to bear on
human tragedy and suffering does not preclude taking other practical steps to alleviate them.
If there is a particular correspondence in Abraham to the first Israel (Exodus and Settlement) and in Jacob to the second (the period of the Kingdoms), something of the same correspondence is to be seen in Joseph to the third Israel, to her profound hope that out of willful intention of evil, out of the consequent judgment of destruction and
tragedy, God would yet through
human means raise up the tribes of Jacob and
bring his light of redemption to all the earth.
Maybe that grand goal of the good society is
brought into being not by vigilante types, nor yet by romantic revolutionaries, nor by any visionary ideologies and scenarios of the right or left, but by the ambiguous resolution of
human tragedies in thousands of little courtrooms across the land.
If the resurrection is the true dénouement of the whole story and not a «happy ending» tacked on to a
tragedy, then there is an element in the story itself which
brings us to the frontiers of normal
human experience, where experience runs out into mystery.
It is his disclosure of God's love, standing by man through all
tragedy and despair, to which we give our witness in the faith that death can not hold or destroy what Jesus was and what he
brought into
human existence.
It just
brought it home: Every one of these shipwrecks we excavate is possibly a site of terrible
human tragedy.
In its own quietly insistent way, the picture takes the sort of
tragedies that have inflamed a nation and been co-opted for all sorts of political purposes —
tragedies from Fruitvale to Sanford, Fla. — and
brings them back down to
human scale.