tragedy and horror for little kids who saw the bodies fall

[dogindia]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/20/in-the-killing-fields-of-ukraine-with-children-who-saw-the-mh17-horror.html

[Arugula Latte]

1. Horrific. Those poor kids, both in the air and on land.

As for the "holy protection" remark -- if her god has the ability to protect her kids on the ground, why didn't that deity do the same for the kids on the plane? I'll never understand this line of thinking.

[hlthe2b]

2. Indeed. But in such horror, I really can't fault her for grasphing at whatever brings her peace

even if it makes no sense....

[CBGLuthier]

3. Me, I will never understand people who can never understand the faithful.

And have to be kind of cruel about it as if it helps somehow.

[easttexaslefty]

4. Exactly. n/t

[catbyte]

5. What exactly was cruel about what s/he said? I'm curious.

[abelenkpe]

6. Nothing. Nt

[Arugula Latte]

7. She's basically saying:

"My deity thought that these kids here from the orphanage were worthy of protecting, while those kids in the plane who died were not."

It's disrespectful to the people who die when people insinuate that others were special enough to receive protection from the deity, but those who died were not.