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My point has nothing to do with whether or not I "deserve" to be protected by God.

My point is that you and the rest of the nitwits who think that God smashes things and kills little children in order to scare you into submission, have a pretty warped notion of "God".

A loving God, could be absolutely NOTHING LIKE the thing you have created in your own twisted image.

THAT... is my point.

How can any parent who watches their seven-year-old child die and not question God and his intent? But the harsh truth is that life IS suffering. And the WTC was the death of a child times 5,000.

But if God is not in control of evil, then there is something more powerful than God, and that is not true. We simply do not know the heart of God. But through the Bible, we know what he expects of us, and what awaits those who love and obey Him.

I realize it seems presumptuous to label as simplistic your question "how can a loving God allow bad things to happen." But you could read the Bible more. There you'll find that suffering is the natural state of mankind. And those moments of bliss and joy and love are gifts from God and a glimpse of our future alongside Him.

I think the only way a parent could say good-bye to their child, and still be able to live another day, is to believe they will be together again in Paradise.

No Christian here has said anything about God killing babies and others as a form of submission to Him. You like twisting others' words, my FRiend to fit your own frame of reference. God has allowed many things to happen to each one of us for our greater good. When you put your faith and trust in HIM, He is more or less responsible for you and for what happens to you. He is more than able to deliver us out of all these trials but there are times, for our own good or for the good of our nation, that He chooses not to. He is with us continually through those times of crisis or tragedy and if we are open to Him, we can grow tremendously through the affliction. I have learned just to surrender to His call on my life, no matter WHAT that means for me.