Go d must hate a lat of people this week.

So this week already, a church has been struck by lightening, the San Diego Arch Diocese has settled five hundred sex abuse cases to the tune of six hundred million dollars and a teen girl has fallen off of a float during a Life of Light religious parade and died. In each news report, including the one about the dirty diddlers, the phrase, "The lord works in mysterious ways" came up. So explain to me, was God acting in a mysterious fashion when he allowed FIVE HUNDRED CHILDREN to be fondled and sodomized by their priests? Also, I would be curious to know the mystery behind allowing his church to cover up the molestation and lock it away for so many years. There was obviously records of these misdeeds in the archives, otherwise, I am sure, a multi-million dollar settlement would not have come so fast. Was that a mysterious act of God, did the omnipotent one realize that these kids would one day need 1.1 million dollars so letting them be raped by an old man in a cloak seamed like it balanced out in the long run? Five hundred kids and that is just in California. Is it me or does that seem like one hell of a lot of molestation? All of these religious figures should be up against a wall and not for a nice, quick firing squad but I am thinking a good, old fashioned stoning, a biblical finish to a "holy" life. If their religion is the right one I will gladly spend my eternity in hell, it would beat hanging around with a bunch of buggering saints til the end of time. As to the other two stories, first. Why is it every time someone dies people say God called them to his side? I know that as mortal beings with a finite life span, we fear death but, can you really rationalize every accident as an act of God? Not really leaving anything to chance it sounds like to me. I will also say, God doesn't long for the company of teenagers, no one but other teenagers like to be around teenagers, they are even to old for dirty priests to rape. As for the lightening striking a church, that is no act of God, that is a natural occurrence of lightening, you know, the whole metal objects, high up in the air, that kind of thing. Now, having the foresight and brains to attach a ground to your holy lightening rod, that would be a true act of God, what with the thinking for yourself and all that. I said act of God by the way, thinking for yourself is rarely the act of the church.