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I grew up during the polio epidemics of the early fifties. I never understood why a loving God would allow so many children to have polio. I would go to Sunday School and learn “Jesus Loves Me” and “Jesus Loves the Little Children,” and on Monday I would give money to the March of Dimes. That has haunted me these many years. I still wonder what became of those unfortunate children who posed for those posters, especially those who were imprisoned in the iron lungs. Just so you all will know, I was five years old in 1952.


41 posted on 07/17/2009 6:42:36 PM PDT by Pelagius of Asturias
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To: Pelagius of Asturias

Do you have children? If so, do you interfere constantly in their lives and save them from every mishap? If you do have children, I am sure you love them, but you also know that they are their own people.

I don’t think the fact that God does not seem to constantly intervene in our world, is proof of anything one way or the other. I am sure he has his reasons for what he does.

parsy.


51 posted on 07/17/2009 6:53:13 PM PDT by parsifal ("Knock and ye shall receive!" (The Bible, somewhere.))
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To: Pelagius of Asturias

12 For who knows what is good for a man in life, during the few and meaningless days he passes through like a shadow? Who can tell him what will happen under the sun after he is gone?


53 posted on 07/17/2009 6:53:52 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Pelagius of Asturias

Do you seriously think a religious nut is capable of rational thought???I didn’t think so.


59 posted on 07/17/2009 7:09:12 PM PDT by eastforker (Lately the threads on FR are either about (.)!(.) or ( ! ))
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To: Pelagius of Asturias
I'm in the medical field. I've watched children suffer.

Jesus recognizes the suffering in this world and offers hope for an eternal future without pain. He never said it would be easy on this earth. We are part animal and part spirit, the suffering for all of us will end when the two separate...and only then.

134 posted on 07/25/2009 7:46:58 AM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......?)
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