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Clarity about God when innocents are killed
First appeared as a Web original on August 22, 2012
Courtesy photo Sensibilities are shaken when congregants gathered in prayer become victims of a gunman’s malice, killing six, wounding and terrorizing others as happened at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin recently. It feels like an eerie echo of the 12 people who died and 58 who were wounded while watching a movie only weeks before in Aurora, Colorado.
But this I know: Despite the aggressive attempts of some religionists to claim otherwise, God does not kill certain people as punishment for other people’s sins. People who claim so in the name of Christ are misinformed about Christ.
About the author
Lois Carlson is a practitioner and teacher of Christian Science in Chicago, Illinois.

October 1, 2012 issue
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Letters
Candace Gibson, Harriett Porch, Norman C. Hutchinson, Bill Marlowe
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God does exist!
Dorothy Estes, Editor, Journal, Sentinel, Herald
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Proof that God exists
Nate Talbot
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A way out of drug addiction
David Fowler
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Prayer for the heart that rejects God
Mark Swinney
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Changing windowpanes
Julie Foskett
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Recharged and rejuvenated
Paul Grimes
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Every child of God is useful
Valerie Minard
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Never homeless in God's care
Deb Hensley
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Home away from home
Logan Landry
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You are what you think
Susan MacFarlane
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My most important decision
Jen McLaughlin
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Clarity about God when innocents are killed
Lois Carlson
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Answers to a key question
Abby Fuller Innes
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To pass by...or not
Patti Kadick
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Spiritual awakening heals injured foot
D' Onna Price
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A church-related healing
Yvonne Renoult
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Cuts from car crash healed without a trace
Tara Darlene Talbot
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Join the march of Mind
The Editors