The loving wrath of God

           "It is hard for people to accept that their Good God is responsible for a great deal of their pain. Though this is not done in malice, but rather like a parent who watches their child run out into busy traffic time after time, even though the child is told continually not to do it, until finally the parent realizes that if this behavior continues, the child will eventually be hit and killed, and so it is better to take out the whip and the cane and beat them until they’ll never do it again rather than let them die because you didn’t care enough to hurt them.  ..."

 

Excerpted from IN AND OF, by Jack Haas