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The wrath of God: Fire breaks out in Mormon church in Cambridge
May 18, 2009 by Giuseppe Martinengo Leave a Comment | Filed in Italiano, News & Politics
My son Luca is a Mormon missionary in the area (Cambridge) where a Mormon Church was burned down yesterday. In his weekly email to us, this morning, he wrote, among other things:
we had an investigator at the stake conference where we had a church building burn down, it was really sad, probably people will start saying that God burned it because it was not the true church…..
Luca is right. In fact, I was reading some of the comments to an article reporting what happened in Cambridge, and I found this comment:
God hath casted his awful verdict upon the heads of heretic! Repent or be astonished by his terrible anger, o you heathen!
And another:
How many signs do those people need?
I do not think they know yet the cause of the fire, but some people attribute to many things to God. The most probable reason was an accident, the second most probable reason was that someone -not God- did it on purpose.
To explain this kind of facts by saying that the wrath of God is on the Mormons, is the same like saying that God is responsible for killing thousands of innocent children every year around the world because of natural disasters or wars.
Probably there is another and more natural explanation.
