It's Getting Stale: "God Always Has A Reason!"

(For amplification, please, also read the previous entry under the category, "religion," in this blogcast.)
 
The legendary Parkersburg, Iowa, football coach, Ed Thomas, (58), was shot and killed by a former player on June 24, 2009.  His son, of course, and spontaneously, made the proclamation that, "God always has a reason!"  Whaaat!?  God has the reason for a killing!?

Perhaps this line of thinking is the way for him to deal/cope with his tragedy, but we don't think so; he has had to have been taught this.  Wanna' bet that he was taught this?  It's cute, but, it's insulting and misleading to us, and to our young people, especially. Anyone who thinks it's healthy, and fair to God, for a society to operate under the belief and misconception that God, in His Infinite Wisdom, in order to make a point, has humanity killing each other?  I'm sickened and confused by such a tenet!

Where did we all incorporate this line of thinking:  God makes horror happen for a reason?  Or, as the coach's son erroneously explicated, "God always has a reason (for killing)."  What a bloodcurdling, offensive, assertion to make - to imply that God had a hand in this beloved coach's death.  FOR A REASON!?  What an insult!?  We usually say of a tragedy that it is senseless.  Well, then, it wouldn't be senseless if GOD has a reason.

Let me get this straight in MY own head!  Thank you for the opportunity!  What does this young man mean by that hackneyed statement?  Let us outline his simple logic:

Is he saying, "God always has a reason why someone is killed?" Yes, because the murderer is mentally ill!  Why is the murderer mentally ill?  Because of nature and/or nurture, more than likely, nature.  Conceivably, there are some misfirings between his axons, dendrites, and synapses. We can't imagine him wanting to be mentally ill? Is there a logical reason (outcome) for the murder? None. So GOD has the reason (the answer) why a beloved coach was killed and another human being will get life in prison or, perhaps, even the death penalty?  We don't think so. 
    
We've heard it said that God had The Holocaust happen so that the state of Israel could be created.  That's a pretty mean God! I'm sure an all-powerful God could have found a different route toward the same finale/reason.  I'm quite certain that the relatives of the gazillion deceased Holocaust victims would rather have their live relatives than a piece of land! Do ya' think!?
    
At an adoption conference recently, we heard a mother who lost her child to adoption decades prior say, "I wouldn't be on the board of an adoption reform group if I hadn't lost my child to adoption!"  That was the reason she lost her child, "Look at the good that came out of the loss."  

What horrific logic!?  She lost HER OFFSPRING that came out of HER WOMB, HER OWN "FLESH & BLOOD," a member of HER FAMILY, HER TRIBE, and the reason was so that she could be a board member of an inconsequential (compared to the loss) adoption reform group?       

Is he saying, "God needs to have someone killed to 'make a point?' For a reason?"  God can't make a point any other way?  I was taught that God is all-powerful.

Is he saying, "God had the murderer kill the coach to create good?"  Couldn't God have created the same good some other way?

Is he saying, "This player killed my dad, but God will make a good reason/will make something good come out of dad's violent death?" Well, then why doesn't God just live our lives for us?  Since He's doing everything behind the scenes? 

Even to say that God would sit back and ALLOW the killing of a human being FOR A REASON is confusing and is to say that God could have stopped it.  So then God stops the killing of some of us and not the rest of us?  Did the coach deserve to die more than, let's say, his neighbor? Is that how God doles out punishment?  If we're bad, then God will punish us in some way in this life.  Well, why then do so many creepy, bad, people go seemingly unpunished? Riiiight!  They'll get their just desserts in the next life.  Right, right, right.  That was the thinking of yesteryear - God punishes some people through human events/mishaps.  What about the rest of us? Supposedly, we're all sinners, even newborns are born with original sin.  Perhaps the philosophy of the coach's son is still a remnant of the religious absurdities of the past?  In the past, if you stubbed your toe, it was God punishing you! Somewhat absurd?

God does not make bad things happen to good people, or to bad people!  I sincerely hope that in the United States God and religion are being taught in a different manner today.  Take note of the crazy ways God and religion are twisted all over the world! Take note of the heinousness that is executed across the globe in the name of God!

Great minds have been grappling with the aforementioned questions since the beginning of time; we're not going to have the answers in a couple of entries in a blogcast.  Our belief is simple:  A human being can make good out of a bad imbroglio.  God has nothing to do with either.  We sort of believe in free will but then that's a whole other entry/dissertation.  Food for thought:  For instance, excluding mental illness, if you're reared, treated, taught one way, then, more than likely, you'll behave in the manner in which you've been steeped, so can you technically be held responsible for your actions?  In theory, no, since that's all you know.

I am so confused!  (comedical) 

Posted by Caleigh Brooks at 7/2/2009 12:31 PM
Categories: Religion
Tags: coach murder adoption reform adoption God baby scoop era mental illness Ed Thomas synapses axons united states religion dentrites sin karen wilson buterbaugh football
 

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