The headline read: ‘GOD WAS ON HIS SIDE’ Plane crashes into house; man sleeping on sofa, his dog survive
SALINA, Pa (AP) – A twin-engine plane slammed into a house in western Pennsylvania minutes after takeoff of Saturday killing two people, and narrowly missing a man sleeping on his couch with his dog…
This article appeared in the Aberdeen American News (Aberdeen, South Dakota) on August 8, 2010. The writer of the article credited divine favor for the man and his dog that seemingly miraculously survived this deadly plane crash. So in the writer’s mind God protected the sleeping man and his dog, while dismissing the lives of the two people in the plane.
Imagine how the family of those two people would feel reading that headline. Not that they would believe it, but the fact that such an idea is bandied about in our largely Christian influenced society, is a shame. When the dominate religion in a culture is filled with ideas that God is with some people and not with others, I guess you just have to expect such nonsense.
