Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Bus crash kills 22 children in Switzerland


Two small Belgian towns are in deep trauma after a devastating bus crash in the Swiss Alps left at least 22 schoolchildren dead.
A further six people died in the crash, on Tuesday night in a tunnel in the south-western canton of Valais, or Wallis. The classes of 11- and 12-year-olds were returning from a school skiing trip to the small Flemish towns of Heverlee and Lommel, east of Brussels.
Distraught parents gathered at the Saint Lambert school in Heverlee anxiously awaiting news of who had died and who had survived the crash, which is believed to be the worst road accident in Switzerlands history.



Children's bus crash kills 28 in Switzerland



As a general rule I do not discus religion or politics with strangers and I try to avoid the subjects with friends and family.
My wife is presently extremely ill and staying in a clinic about 100 km from our home, I drive to visit her every day. This means that I use the same road each day at roughly the same time and I have picked up the same hitchhiker on three separate occasions and given him a lift.
He knows the reason for my journey and always asks after my wife. On the last occasion he said that all we can do is pray, I nodded, he then asked if I believe in God and when I replied no he shook his head and said that I should, as it does no harm.
Fortunately we arrived at the spot where I drop him off before he asked the question that all believers ask of non-believers, why?

I think this very sad news article explains why I cannot believe in the all-powerful benevolent god as portrayed in the Christian religion. 

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