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Fri Jun 19, 2015, 01:23 AM Jun 2015

Why divine intervention after the shooting instead of before? (Charleston) [View all]

Last edited Fri Jun 19, 2015, 01:54 AM - Edit history (1)

About the woman who spotted the Charleston church shooter's car:

Florist spots Hyundai at light, helps catch shooting suspect
http://news.yahoo.com/florist-spots-hyundai-light-helps-catch-shooting-suspect-005352310.html

...She called it a matter of "divine intervention."

...But after she looked into the car and saw the driver, she began to get increasingly nervous.

She quickly pulled off the main highway and called her friend and boss, Todd Frady, asking what to do.

..."I'm going to go ahead and tell you, I was scared," Dills said. "I told Todd, if (the suspect) gets out of this car and starts shooting, you tell my family I'm gone (to heaven). I know where I'm going."

..."Make no mistake about it, I am not the hero here — God is the hero," Dills said. "People can believe that or not. He showed up here in Shelby, North Carolina."

Dills said she believes God put her in the right place at the right time.


I wonder if she wonders why God didn't intervene before the shooting, instead of after. Probably because it was God's will that 9 black people be shot to death, being that they are descendants of Ham?

I'm surprised she called her friend and boss, asking what to do. Why not pray for guidance from her real friend and boss, Jesus Christ?

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That's because god works in mysterious ways Yorktown Jun 2015 #1
Yep. It's all part of his master plan. progressoid Jun 2015 #2
I suppose. Our ways are not God's ways. nm progree Jun 2015 #3
Finally - we have the explanation progree Jun 2015 #8
You see? God always prevails in the end. Yorktown Jun 2015 #21
It would be a pretty good trick to explain it even then Major Nikon Jun 2015 #26
You must take it on faith Yorktown Jun 2015 #27
That drove me nuts too. trotsky Jun 2015 #4
Or blow out the tire of the little nitwit on the way to the church in the first place A HERETIC I AM Jun 2015 #14
Typical egotistical crap AlbertCat Jun 2015 #5
that's too easy RussBLib Jun 2015 #6
Thanks. I forgot about that one. nm progree Jun 2015 #7
Right. And even though the loving omnipotent deity created the devil in the first place, Arugula Latte Jun 2015 #16
just shows you how strong the Devil is!!! RussBLib Jun 2015 #17
No, I know. I figure people posting in A&A don't really believe this stuff. Arugula Latte Jun 2015 #18
Most of us just believe in the one true god, the Holy Flying Spaghetti Monster Yorktown Jun 2015 #22
Indeed. Believing in other deities is just fusilli. Arugula Latte Jun 2015 #25
Which would be a penne in the *** Yorktown Jun 2015 #28
Intervention nil desperandum Jun 2015 #9
You dare to question the wisdom of God? Curmudgeoness Jun 2015 #10
Or maybe God himself was playing golf? Yorktown Jun 2015 #23
Glad you posted this. onager Jun 2015 #11
Best explanation yet: Mental illness, evil, and Caitlyn Jenner progree Jun 2015 #12
what makes people susceptible? RussBLib Jun 2015 #13
Evolutionary genes misfiring. Yorktown Jun 2015 #24
Yeah. It's frankly sad and pathetic how people don't connect the dots on this. Arugula Latte Jun 2015 #15
What? Nobody has shown up to snark and sneer Warren Stupidity Jun 2015 #19
Sanity in an insane world AuntPatsy Jun 2015 #20
I was chastised in GD for commenting on a mountain grammy Jun 2015 #29
I believe the term is "fuck you, got mine" AtheistCrusader Jun 2015 #30
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