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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Geez pp, get a life. Sadly I know a bunch of families who have suffered tragic losses. And I couldn't imagine being able to carry on like some of them have. But the religious ones really seem to pick up the pieces. And they aren't merely stoic....they publicly acknowledge[b] their kids are in a better place, etc[/b]. Someone without faith can't do that. Scientific? No. But I've seen it, so I'm commenting on it here.[/quote]

Not the PP you're replying to, but I don't believe in the 'better place'. I think those kids are just dead.[/quote]

So there are no consequences to the perpetrators of child massacres?  There is no hope of eternal justice?[/quote]

We can't know the answer to that.  Wiser philosophers than you will find on dcum can't answer that. We can only hope.

But I'm reminded that if there is a God, God's love is infinite.  God's capacity for forgiveness knows no end.  Even killers are still children of God.  What do you think God does with a killer, firey pits and red devils with pitchforks?  I think that's a childish fantasy.  I think the only punishment - and the best punishment - is for a person to have a perfect understanding as they pass of the feelings of others.  That this killer will feel the terror of his victims, the profound loss of the families, the mourning of the nation.  That he will truly understand in that moment what he's done, and regret it, even as God welcomes him with open arms.

I imagine my child.  I can't imagine what she could do to make me hate her, to condemn her to Hell.  Even one of the Columbine perpetrators mom's has said she still loves her son, despite what he did.  We hate the deed but still love our child.  If we mere human parents are capable of that distinction, don't you think God would be capable of it too?  [/quote]

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