I looked at the Gene Simmons clip and I have to say I have had the same thoughts.

As thinking, aware humans who are able to see what injustice, unfairness and abhorrent behaviour looks like, and as a species that is capable of inflicting lots of it, I want to ask God some questions on Judgement Day if it indeed arrives. It may be sacrilegious thinking, but there are some things so horrifying that I feel even "God's Mysterious Ways" must be held under a microscope

This is especially keen in my mind these days as Canada is stunned by the find of the graves of 215 Indigenous children at a residential school in Kamloops BC

For background, Canada, in implemeting a policy of integrating Indigenous peoples into society, set up residential schools for Indigenous children in 1883 ...to be run by various religious insitutions and some private interests

What happened thereafter to these children is horrible. First they were simply scooped up from their families who had no choice as authorities removed these children from their homes.

Second, many Canadians did not know until our Truth And Reconciliation Commission report about 5 years ago about what really happened in those places...and now this latest news, and the likelihood now that more will be uncovered at other school sites is horrifying.

Children died at these schools for various reasons ...illness, neglect, suicide...even reports of murder ....but what is most horrifying is that these children simply "disappeared". Their parents were not notified. There were no marked graves with crosses....their bodies appear to have been simply "disposed of". There was also physical and sexual abuse and tremendous trauma was experienced by students, the dead, survivors and all Indigenous families with children in that system...and the latest news must be tearing at the hearts of those whose children simply disappeared

And the worst part? The religious insitutions and bastions of morality that were behind it all initially resisted calls for accountability....advised by reams of lawyers

So God, how could you let this happen to children...and have it caused by priests and ministers and lay people of the church? Moreover, the Catholic Popes, claiming infallibility due to their direct channel to You, ignored things and tried to sweep things under the rug for as long as possible. That has only begun to change in recent years, and just the other day Pope Francis ( a good one IMO) changed Canon Law to criminalize all instances where its priests or lay people (including school principals) use their positions of authority for sexual purposes.

But it had to be forced on them. It did not come about because of their faith, basic human decency etc. In fact it was probably more due to the many lawsuits the church faced because of the sexually predatory behaviour of some of its priests and the bishops who sheltered them

Now we find 215 and counting innocent children dead, supposedly in the care of God fearing Christian people who claimed moral superiority because of their position...who expected to go the Heaven because of their faith...mistreated their charges and simply disposed of their bodies like refuse if they died in their care

Where is the lesson God, and why use innocent children to send it?

If faith is the means to Heaven and everlasting life, how do You overlook their egregious sins?




If writing ever becomes work I think I'm going to have to stop