Jul 6, 2016
In clearing out my "Viewpoint" shoebox for June, I found a few items that might interest readers. Here are three.
Does God send terror attacks?
I'm no fan of fundamentalist evangelists, especially the flashy sort that have television shows and private jets. The one great exception to this over the years has been Billy Graham. All the more disappointing, then, when Graham's daughter, Anne Graham Lotz, herself a popular evangelist, recently told a conservative radio interviewer that God sends terror attacks because of all kinds of human evils. She named bathroom rights for transgender people as a sitting duck for divine wrath.
When we transgress the moral law, she says, "God abandons us," "he backs away and takes his hand of favor [and] blessings from us." Because of our sins, God let 9/11 happen; allowed the shootings in San Bernardino to take place; and generally punishes us because of our national sins.