It clearly DOES have you confounded. You don't understand, and are unwilling. E.g., let's examine your continuing, incessant and indeed, DISHONEST regurgitations of the following point you make (so unerringly exemplary of a LIBERAL):
"why then would his Father (with whom he is presumably imutably melded) feel compelled to smash innocent-laden airplanes against the sides of buildings, to "teach us a lesson" about our wickedness?
Not a single person on this thread, or in public, nor in private has intimated that God 'felt compelled to smash innocent-laden airplanes against the sides of buildings'...but you keep saying this same basic defamatory accusation (against both God and Believers) as if by repetition you will make it true. Just like the Marxists with their BIG LIE methodology. You claim that we make a distinction without a difference when the distinction is extremely clear to those WILLING to hear...he merely STOPPED supernaturally protecting us from THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN HOWLING AND SLAVERING TO DO THIS FOR DECADES.
God is not responsible for our tragedy. Our enemies are the ones who are responsible, and to the extent we have spurned His Help, unrepentantly unaware that we are his creations ('ala Alan Dershowitz), and forgetting we are his to serve Him(not vice-versa) and to love him by being his friends (to put this in a symbolic relationship which you might better understand)...then yes, we are also to blame FOR SENDING GOD AWAY.
How many of us even now are trusting SOLELY in munitions and political games to prevail here? How many are fervently PRAYING for help, IF it be his Will, for our nation in this? How many instead are STILL Giving him the busy signal, the cold shoulder, and the come-back later 'inconvenient season' excuse??? Not to dispute anyone's sincerity, but I have to ask: How many thoughtlessly mouth or write "God Bless America" as if it were a COMMAND we can issue to God? --Skipping the "May" God part. Let us pray it is not that way, and that their hearts are right.
I don't think this terrorist act was God's will. This was an act perpetrated by evil men.