I have also decided, though, that it does not really matter to me whether God does intervene in such events – I cannot know either when or why such an intervention would occur. Such an action would serve God’s purposes, not mine, and I cannot possibly understand those purposes – I am not God, I am limited by time and space and intelligence and perspective. Maybe there is a perfectly good reason why thousands of human babies had to die on the planet Earth on the day after Christmas 2004; why entire families had to be wiped out. I cannot know it. Any attempt by me to “create” a purpose would be at best pure speculation and at worst wishful thinking. I am sure that it is no coincidence that those who are quickest to attribute motives to an infinite deity appear to be those most likely to adopt the most mean-spirited motives possible to vindicate their own pre-existing views.

[via A Progressive Christian]