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What's this? It turns out God's a cherry-picker too?

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What's this? It turns out God's a cherry-picker too?

You don't say?

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"I hoped my mother would recover from cancer, and she did. In Uganda, thousands of babies are born with AIDS. Share my inspirational story."

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"I hoped my mother would recover from cancer, and she did. In Uganda, thousands of babies are born with AIDS. Share my inspirational story."

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It's very sinister to think that there are people making such things up and others believing them. And even when it's a true story, to mix it with such bullshit in the face of a tragedy is unthinkable.

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A man from Norfolk , VA called a local radio station to share this on Sept 11th, 2003, TWO YEARS AFTER THE TRAGEDIES OF 9/11/2001.

His name was Robert Matthews. These are his words:

A few weeks before Sept. 11th, my wife and I found out we were going to have our first child. She planned a trip out to California to visit her sister. On our way to the airport, we prayed that God would grant my wife a safe trip and be with her. Shortly after I said 'amen,' we both heard a loud pop and the car shook violently. We had blown out a tire. I replaced the tire as quickly as I could, but we still missed her flight. Both very upset we drove home.

I received a call from my father who was retired NYFD. He asked what my wife's flight number was, but I explained that we missed the flight.

My father informed me that her flight was the one that crashed into the southern tower. I was too shocked to speak. My father also had more news for me; he was going to help. 'This is not something I can't just sit by for; I have to do something.'

I was concerned for his safety, of course, but more because he had never given his life to Christ. After a brief debate, I knew his mind was made up. Before he got off of the phone, he said, 'take good care of my grandchild.' Those were the last words I ever heard my father say; he died while helping in the rescue effort.

My joy that my prayer of safety for my wife had been answered quickly became anger. I was angry at God, at my father, and at myself. I had gone for nearly two years blaming God for taking my father away. My son would never know his grandfather, my father had never accepted Christ, and I never got to say good-bye.

Then something happened. About two months ago, I was sitting at home with my wife and my son, when there was a knock on the door. I looked at my wife, but I could tell she wasn't expecting anyone. I opened the door to a couple with a small child.

The man looked at me and asked if my father's name was Jake Matthews. I told him it was. He quickly grabbed my hand and said, 'I never got the chance to meet your father, but it is an honor to meet his son.'

He explained to me that his wife had worked in the WorldTrade Center and had been caught inside after the attack. She was pregnant and had been caught under debris. He then explained that my father had been the one to find his wife and free her. My eyes welled up with tears as I thought of my father giving his life for people like this. He then said, 'there is something else you need to know.'

His wife then told me that as my father worked to free her, she talked to him and led him to Christ. I began sobbing at the news.

Now I know that when I get to Heaven, my father will be standing beside Jesus to welcome me, and that this family would be able to thank him themselves ..

When their baby boy was born, they named him Jacob Matthew, in honor of the man who gave his life so that a mother and baby could live.

Please take time to share this amazing story. You may never know the impact it may have on someone. God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called

Now lets turn this around.
If one of us had gone into a disaster area and started saying to struggling victims "You know there's no god don't you!" we'd be seen as dicks, but it is the same thing!!

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Now lets turn this around.
If one of us had gone into a disaster area and started saying to struggling victims "You know there's no god don't you!" we'd be seen as dicks, but it is the same thing!!

It's not really the same. In that scenario, an atheist telling a believer that there's no God and presumably convincing him a little bit, for otherwise it wouldn't matter, would have the potential of being devastating, psychologically speaking. Now turn it around and have the odd atheist in that situation being preached to by a believer and you've got nothing more but annoyance at the idiocy and tactlessness of the other, no matter how vitriolic the deliverance. In the grander scheme of things the believer, of course, could potentially provoke an enormous amount of harm by this action whereas the other couldn't possibly ( after all he would be merely exposing far-fetched fantasies about the world for what they are). But there's a time and place for everything. We shouldn't even think to stoop so low just because some of our ideological opponents do so on a regular basis.

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