Where was God on 9/11?

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Father Mychal Judge was in close communication with Him that day, from what I have read.

Edited to add, as I was trying to get out of DC before they shut the city down and sent in the Guard, I seem to recall being in touch with Him myself as I was hurrying through the streets with the masses.
 
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Luke 13 seems relevant:

13:1 And there were present, at that very time, some that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
2 And he answering, said to them: Think you that these Galileans were sinners above all the men of Galilee, because they suffered such things?
3 No, I say to you: but unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish.
4 Or those eighteen upon whom the tower fell in Siloe, and slew them: think you, that they also were debtors above all the men that dwelt in Jerusalem?
5 No, I say to you; but except you do penance, you shall all likewise perish.
 
thephilosopher711 said:
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Of what age, under what circumstances?
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Any age, any circumstance.
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PluniaZ said:
Luke 13 seems relevant:

13:1 And there were present, at that very time, some that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

2 And he answering, said to them: Think you that these Galileans were sinners above all the men of Galilee, because they suffered such things?

3 No, I say to you: but unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish.

4 Or those eighteen upon whom the tower fell in Siloe, and slew them: think you, that they also were debtors above all the men that dwelt in Jerusalem?

5 No, I say to you; but except you do penance, you shall all likewise perish.
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See…this is a perfect example. A child would not understand this. Nor would an atheist. Heck, I’m not sure if I get it.
 
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thephilosopher711 said:
How do we answer someone who asks this?
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Here’s one possible approach:
Do you think we Christians are ignorant of all the evil that happens in the world? That you will point at 9/11 and we will be astonished? What about the Holocaust? What about all the massacres and wars of conquest all through history? What about rapes and serial murders and spree shootings and famines and religious persecutions and all the other horrible things that happen?
Yes, the world is full of evil. And 99% of it is done by us, by the human race. My sin is not God’s fault. Your sin is not God’s fault. The horrors Hitler inflicted on others were not God’s fault. And 9/11 is not God’s fault.
Now if you would like to talk about why God hasn’t stopped all the horrors (as opposed to throwing it up to us and expecting us to fall back in confusion), well we can discuss the matter.
 
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God was with the passengers on Flight 93.
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And the people who were trapped on the top floors of the WTC. Including my friend who was up on the roof with one of the heads of his firm trying in vain to find a way for the trapped employees to get out. Needless to say he and the others didn’t make it out and we were all at his funeral a couple weeks later.

In addition to being a very smart guy, which is how he got the job working there, he was a very good, kind, Catholic young man who was one of the most well-liked people in my class at our grad school program. The good die young. I am sure God was with him, and all his colleagues.
 
Where is God today? On 9/11, about 3000 Americans died. Today (and everyday) in the United States, about 2500 Americans die from abortion. God is with each one of us as we suffer. An untimely death that makes the headlines is just as sad as one that does not.
 
Did you listen to some of the calls that were made before the planes hit? There was one lady that was saying a “Hail Mary”. To me, that’s beautiful. Her death was horrible and avoidable, but if I thought it was my last minutes, I’d probably be doing something similar.
 
I’d like to think I would be doing the same in that situation. Said quite a few walking from my office past the Capitol to the train station, where the station itself had been evacuated and we were all placed en masse on the lawn. I was thinking if another plane was headed our way, then the large crowd of several hundred people on a lawn would certainly be sitting ducks.

Had another friend who was in the NY subway a couple blocks from WTC when all hell broke loose - her train was stopped - and a third guy who barely made it out of one of the shorter WTC buildings and basically fled down the street until he and a bunch of others were taken into some apartment by some rich person where they all spent the rest of the day until things calmed down.

Could happen at any time anywhere. I have another friend who was in the Brussels airport recently when it bombed, took the cell phone footage that was beamed all over the world and was interviewed and badgered by news media until he pretty much had to turn off his twitter.

C’est la vie, and not even so bad compared with what people go through daily in places like Aleppo. God is always with us. Thank God.
 
I remember having to comfort a French girl after the Paris attacks. I even got a smile out of her. I was going to college at the time, and a bunch of people signed a French flag. Some people did put prayers on it. I wrote my favourite Bible verse (Rev 21:4) in French. I was at something my French professor sat up to try to help cheer them up. I remember going to a Melkite church and the priest there (awesome guy, by the way), started crying when he was praying for persecuted Christians in the Middle East (he is not Arab, but most Melkites are), I remember, I think a priest he knew was actually killed, and he started crying. I don’t think I’d ever seen a priest cry before. He didn’t breakdown, he still said the Liturgy, but it was amazing. God is a just God, this is something we tend to forget in these situations. Yes, these people were killed unjustly, but it was not God that was setting off bombs or pulling the trigger. He gives us free will, and unfortunately, that is the way some people chose to use it.
 
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“Where He always is. Always at the center of things. Always in the acts of love and generosity that people give to each other in times of crisis.”
-Archbishop of Canterbury

Thanks for the link thephilosopher771. That’s an answer that just about anyone can understand.
 
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9/11 taught America an important lesson. There is stil evil in the world and we must stop it. How can we be prepared to serve God if all we do is whine about him not stepping in and saving us? He has given us the tools, he expects us to use them. That is how he has delivered us from evil!
 
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