{"id":23969,"date":"2011-01-13T16:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/julia_duin-arizona_shootings_why_did_god_allow_it\/"},"modified":"2011-01-13T16:00:03","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T16:00:03","slug":"julia_duin-arizona_shootings_why_did_god_allow_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23969","title":{"rendered":"Julia Duin&#8211;Arizona shootings: Why did God allow it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I scanned Twitter, that great marketplace of ideas and current thought, to see what the grassroots are saying. &#8220;Stay focused,&#8221; one person wrote. &#8220;No matter wht comes ur way; opinions, doubt, fear, anxieties, etc. God is in control. Trust .&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trust is very hard. Then I stumbled across a blog by Orthodox Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (on an unrelated topic) where he asks why some children are abandoned in this world and others are not; why evil falls in one place but not another. Like the rest of us, he doesn&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Creator chooses, for reasons unknown to us,&#8221; he writes, &#8220;to hide behind the veil of nature and it is we humans who must fill in the seemingly empty spaces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onfaith.washingtonpost.com\/onfaith\/undergod\/2011\/01\/arizona_shootings_why_did_god_allow_it.html#more\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I scanned Twitter, that great marketplace of ideas and current thought, to see what the grassroots are saying. &#8220;Stay focused,&#8221; one person wrote. &#8220;No matter wht comes ur way; opinions, doubt, fear, anxieties, etc. God is in control. Trust<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23969\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,209,108,165,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-religion-culture","category-theodicy","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}