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Originally Posted by H. Montague Worthington
It certainly vexes our small and primitive minds to contemplate God's loving, vengeful, wise, brutal, and sadistically vicious plan. I can only begin to imagine the complexity of God's loving grace as he thought about blowing up that engine and sucking that woman partially out of the plane.
Yes, that lady in seat 19G must have totally deserved to be partially sucked out of the open window and her neck snapped by being exposed to 580 mph winds as horrified passengers struggled to get her back into the injured airliner. There is no such thing as a random act in this world. Everything that happens anywhere on Earth is under the direct, conscious. meticulous oversight of a supreme being who knows EXACTLY what He is doing and how it will affect people at every level of exposure to the act. So you can be very sure that God's loving brutality made certain that woman in 19G got precisely what was coming to her.
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Those are heart felt and inspiring words Brother Worthington. No doubt that God also had a plan to terrorize the other passengers on that flight - particularly a Jesus teaching moment for any atheists on board.
While the "progressive" secular scum teaching today's school systems have no doubt banned the book, I remember reading Thornton Wilder's "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" growing up. While it may have a somewhat cathylick bent to the tale, but despite its flaws it is nonetheless a fine example of introducing God's Divine Providence to the young and old alike.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. A friar who has witnessed the accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, and was the best-selling work of fiction that year.
Plot
Part One: Perhaps an Accident
The first few pages of the first chapter of The Bridge of San Luis Rey explain the book's basic premise: this story centers on a (real) event that happened in Peru on the road between Lima and Cusco, at noon on Friday, July 20, 1714. A bridge woven by the Incas a century earlier collapsed at that particular moment, while five people were crossing it. The collapse was witnessed by Brother Juniper, a Franciscan monk who was on his way to cross it. Wanting to show the world God's Divine Providence, he sets out to interview everyone he can find who knew the five victims. Over the course of six years, he compiles a huge book of all of the evidence he gathers to show that the beginning and end of a person is all part of God's plan for that person. Part One foretells the burning of the book that occurs at the end of the novel, but it also says that one copy of Brother Juniper's book survives and is at the library of the University of San Marco, where it sits neglected.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Br...f_San_Luis_Rey
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