How Could God Let This Go On?

These kind of stories boggle the mind. How could a benevolent God let this go on? In a church no less. Right wing radio plants these thoughts into the minds of people who are disturbed/mentally off-balance and this is what happens. Thanks Hannity, Rush and especially Michael Savage. I hope you sleep well tonight.


Chief: Church gunman says he acted out of 'hatred for the liberal movement'

Police say a man opened fire at a Knoxville, Tenn., church yesterday because he couldn't find a job and "his stated hatred for the liberal movement."
Two people died in the shooting spree.
Jim Adkisson, 58, faces first-degree murder charges. He's being held on $1 million bond. (Here's a profile in the local newspaper.)
"It appears he was acting alone," Chief Sterling Owen IV tells reporters. "In his written statement, he does not describe any affiliation with anybody and the subsequent search at his residence shows that it appears he was operating alone."
The chief says Adkisson fired three times with a 12-gauge shotgun. They recovered 76 shotgun shells at the Tennessee Valley Universalist Church. The gun was purchased last month at a pawn shop.
"I do not believe he expected to leave there alive," Owen says.
Owen says officers were at the church within minutes of receiving a call for assistance.
The FBI and ATF are assisting with the investigation.
Knoxville News Sentinel reports that the four-page letter that investigators recovered from Adkisson's truck "indicates he had been planning the shooting for about a week."
"It appears he did choose that church intentionally," Owen says.
Here's our earlier story.
Update at 2:15 p.m. ET: The News Sentinel reports that Adkisson's ex-wife was once a member of the church. A longtime friend tells the paper "he needed help a long time ago and never got it.""He always had the attitude the government was trying to get him,'' Carol Smallwood says. "He disliked blacks, gays, anyone who was a different color or just different from him."

Here is the poignant statement today from the church's website:

The Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church thanks you for your thoughts and prayers and many expressions of support. As you might imagine, we are only beginning the process of accepting and grieving this tragedy. Our process continues this evening with a series of events, beginning at 5 p.m. with a debriefing for those members and friends of our community who were most directly affected by the shooting. We respectfully ask that the larger Knoxville community respect the privacy of these individuals and not attend these debriefing sessions, so that the survivors of this traumatic event might begin the work of healing.


If you watch this UU video, you will become convinced that the guy that did this shooting was not buying into any ideas that Unitarian Universalists stand for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15R3EFI3BJU