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The Newtown Massacre and the Pain of God

hunkahunka Wrote: Dec 17, 2012 9:16 PM

Do you have empathy for the 15 Chinese who were stabbed and cut to death last week by a nut job with a knife at a Chinese shopping mall or how about the 10 Chinese in another part of China who 2 weeks ago at a crowded train station were also cut and stabbed to death. You heard anything about the Chinese government wanting to ban knives? BTW like your last statement, are you intelligent or wise? :)

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annfan_777 Wrote: Dec 17, 2012 9:38 PM

Irrelevant.

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The Newtown Massacre and the Pain of God

In the aftermath of the Newtown massacre, as family members and friends of the slain and wounded suffer unspeakable agony, people around the world are asking, “Where was God?” But very few are asking, “Is God hurting too?”

According to Basilea Schlink (1904-2001), a German Christian leader who stood up to the Nazis, “Anyone who loves as much as God does, cannot help suffering. And anyone who really loves God will sense that He is suffering.” She found support for this view in the writings of the Japanese Lutheran theologian Kazoh Kitamori in his book “Theology of the Pain of God.”

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