Boston

I'm sure that thousands of blog postings today will focus on the bombings in the city of Boston.  That is only right, as blogs are the voices of those who write them, and there is little else absorbing the thoughts, fears, and concerns of people today than the vicious attack that took place by incredibly cowardly people at the end of the Boston Marathon.

Amazingly, it was my wife who posed the most pertinent question to my mind: What did they hope to accomplish?

Basically, that's another way of asking, "Why?"

Why would anyone attack innocent people who were running a race that demanded courage and strength?  Why would anyone attack civilians?  Why would they use devices designed, not just to kill, but to maim and mutilate?

These are people who are too cowardly to attack military targets.  These are people who are out to kill and hurt for no reason other than their belief that they are justified in doing so.

Look at the list of those murdered (yes... I chose that word on purpose) and injured.  What possible excuse could anyone have for killing an 8-year-old boy?  On top of that, they timed their attack to murder, not the race winners, but the bigger crowd who would be coming in later; the average runner thrilled to be finishing a marathon.

Some might try to blame God for looking the other way.  This isn't God's fault.  He isn't the one who used his free will to disobey a simple rule.  Men did that.  Just as men (or women) committed this heinous act.  This isn't God turning away from man.  This is man turning away from God.  This is humans seeking to justify their acts through one excuse or another.  I can only imagine what Fox News is saying today.  Whether one believes in a loving God or not, there is still the basic internal knowledge that murder is wrong.  In every country on earth, murder is illegal.  Nowhere do they say that you can kill as you wish.  Thus, even the most uneducated person carries within them the understanding that killing is bad.  But people like this ignore that voice within.  They push it aside in favor of the evil that moves them to take another life.

This isn't God's fault.  Jehovah had nothing to do with this.

If you want the one responsible for influencing evil like this, look to the one who encouraged ignoring rules in the first place.

My heart goes out to those injured, and the families of those killed in Boston.  May they somehow find the peace they will so desperately need.