A 14 year-old pregnant girl was buried alive by her boyfriend...

[truebrit71]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rossalynwarren/pregnant-girl-was-buried-alive-by-her-boyfriend

Tell me.

Where is your God now?

I just can't even begin to wrap my head around this level of cruelty...

[Warpy]

1. Their god punished her for the sin of sex

something her boyfriend was exempted from since he's not the one with the pregnancy.

Awful story. The worst part is that it's not terribly unusual, although young girls are usually dead when they're put into those shallow graves.

[BlueJazz]

2. Sometimes I really, really don't care that much for God's will.

[Yorktown]

3. Far from me the idea of defending religion, but..

..was this done in the name of it?

The motive could the social future of the boy in a traditionalistic society

An extreme form of contraception by people with primitive social values?

(Religion playing an indirect role as helping set these social values)

[truebrit71]

5. No. My point was more along the lines of...

... where was the omnipotent, all-powerful, all-knowing, loving god to prevent this from happening in the first place....

[Yorktown]

6. Oh! Him (She/It)?

Can't you give the guy a break?


Can't expect the chap to be on the job 24/7/365/billions of years non stop, you know?

Not reasonable and all that.

[needledriver]

7. Maybe it happened on Sunday

when He was "resting", because nothing says "omnipotent" like needing a day off after creating one crappy little solar system.

[Yorktown]

8. Is it me being suspicious, or are you demeaning god?

A crappy little solar system?

(He) created 10^22 crappy little solar systems.

Show some respect.

[needledriver]

9. What, wait - there's more?

I thought Earth was the center of everything and all the stars and stuff travel in epicycles.

[frogmarch]

4. Well, after all

she got herself pregnant.