I'm sure I'll be labeled as "cold and callous"....but so be it.

I ask the question.....what did the "Titanic" and the space shuttle "Columbia" (which blew up yesterday) have in common??

If you remember.....the old saying spoken of the Titanic....lauded at its "christening" was....."Not even God can sink this ship!"

What does this have to do with Columbia?? Don't you find it ironic, to say the least, that part of the mission this time, included experiments to study "the evolution of life in the universe?" (Which, by the way, there is nothing wrong with studying that, if one approaches it from a "God-centered" perspective.)

Why do people have such a "tragic" response to yesterday.....and yet...a little over 2 weeks ago....20 people were lost in a commuter flight that crashed into the side of a building on take-off in North Carolina??

It's plain to me. The space shuttle represents the evolution (i.e., the techology of man at its finest). And when it fails....where does modern 21st century mankind turn to when they can't turn to their technology to save them?? For a post-modernist society they have nothing to look to but inward.....for something that was removed a long time ago. Man again is reminded that in spite of his advances....the greatest aversary of all.....death....still lingers like a shadow.

You respond...."But there were innocent people on board!" Sure there were....and there were innocent people on board the Titanic.

But there is a part of me that is reminded (as in the case of Agrippa in Acts 12) that God will not be mocked.

Sorry for the loss?? Sure...especially the loved ones left behind. However.....no greater degree of sorrow than for those who every day lose loved ones prematurely to cancer, automobile accidents...etc.

I believe that God is continuing to remind people in America....and ultimately the world.....that He alone....not our machines....not our intelligence....not our technology.....but He alone is the source of eternal life.

Don't let the brethren forget it either!

-- Anonymous, February 02, 2003

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Danny ,I know we have had diferences but this time I agree,I don't think it is cold or calloused but it is the truth.What will the end be for those who are not saved? It may seem cold but according to the word of God even a child who is born from unbelieveing parents is lost accordind to 1 Corn 7:14 they are unclean and Eph. 5:5 tells us that "no unclean person shall enter in" is that cold and heartless? No, it just reminds us of the importance of salvation. Chuck Williams

-- Anonymous, February 02, 2003

Danny:

I've had many of the same thoughts, mostly in relation to the lowering of flags to half-staff. My grandmother died a few days before Christmas -- nobody lowered their flags for her, but she was a great Christian and a great citizen and contributed much to this country through the way she influenced people in her life.

-- Anonymous, February 05, 2003