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As much as I love God, I don't think it is right for us to believe that He has to take care of everything. People that aren't ‘right’ often as not aren't God's doing. Many times as not, it is some perfectly simple explanation.

I grew up in the 50’s and 60’s when EVERY house in the neighborhood had a gun(s). Virtually every kid went hunting or shooting. When virtually every kid knew where the guns were, and one or more was always loaded.

We also had a ‘disturbed’ kid in our neighborhood (back in those days the term retarded was still used.) He had nothing to do with God's actions. His mother didn't think she was in labor, waited too long to go to the hospital, when she got there told them she wasn't in labor, and he was born after a period of oxygen starvation.

He wasn't a sin, he wasn't God's punishment, he was just a poor little soul that wasn't right and wouldn't ever be right. And when he got to be a teenager and too big for his parents to handle, he went to live someplace where he couldn't hurt himself or anyone else.

And yes, it was a very religious time. Everybody in that neighborhood belong to some religion (there were two churches within walking distance of my house.) People believed in God and prayed to God. But they also realized that some of life was our business, and we had to take care of our business.

After reading what you had posted and as a person who has had to deal with “learning challenges” all her life and had been in a wonderful relationship with a truly devout Bible believing Christian significant other for 21 years, before God called him home at the age of 46. He also had a “learning challenge”, that despite that, had a number of jobs and worked hard. He loved me very deeply, and I the same. We were starting to plan for our future when he taken ill very suddenly and a few days later, had passed on. Because of him, who pointed out to me the King of Kings, it was my faith that kept me going.

What it all comes down to is this, even with “challenges”, be it physical or mental, one still MUST make a decision either for or against Jesus Christ and no excuses, not even having a “challenge” can EVER excuse what had happened in a very, very horrible and heartbreaking way in my home state of CT last week.

Last, I can add, I also have come to know people who have challenges and it is enough to learn, like me, to accept this cross we have to carry every day, let alone do what this MONISTER did late last week.