My heart goes out for the families of the dead amish girls..

[RichardT]

why did he go after the amish... what have they done to him....

[TwinCrier]

I guess we'll never know now. :cry:

[mlqurgw]

why did he go after the amish... what have they done to him....
As does all who have a heart. People who do such things usually go after easy targets. He will be judged by Him who judge righteously.

[Jim1927]

First, my heart also goes out to these people who lost so much, and yet, the keynote was "forgive"...Would to God that I could be so gracious given the events.

His wife gave a clue as to why he went after the Amish. He was angry with God for taking his child. What better target than to attack the innocent children of God-fearing people?

"There God, take that!" if you kow what I am saying.

Cheers,

Jim

[RED that's ME]

My heart goes out to the Amish families too.

What do we learn from when bad things happen to good people?

We don't always know/understand God's will for allowing certain things to happen.

When bad things happen to Godly people...God can/will use it for good. :) One of the things that had stood out to me is the *forgiveness* the Amish families has given even when they are hurting. To me they're a picture of God and that's what christians should be. Even though they're a private community, they have been put under a microscope to the world. We can also see their "faith" in God will get them through the bad times in their lives. Others should see the same in us when bad things happen.
If you think about it we're either going through something, just came out of something or fixing to go into something in our lives that needs a higher power & strength to get us through.

Life issues should draw us closer to God.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f4/redgifs/Spiritual signs/A8758A-md.jpg

[chris777]

Dozens of Amish neighbors came out Saturday tomourn the quiet milkman who killed five of their young girls and wounded five more in a brief, unfathomable rampage.

About half of perhaps 75 mourners on hand were Amish.
"It's the love, the forgiveness, the heartfelt forgiveness they have toward the family. I broke down and cried seeing it displayed," said Bruce Porter, a fire department chaplain from Morrison, Colo., who had come to Pennsylvania to offer what help he could and attended the burial. He said Marie Roberts was also touched.
"She was absolutely deeply moved, by just the love shown," Porter said.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,218511,00.html

Two of the survivors of the shooting told their parents that 13-year-old Marian Fisher, one of the slain girls, asked to be shot first, apparently hoping the younger girls would be let go, according to Leroy Zook, an Amish dairy farmer.

"Shoot me and leave the other ones loose," Marian has been quoted as saying, Zook said.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,218459,00.html

These people are demonstrating something we don' t often see

[Abbadon]

why did he go after the amish... what have they done to him....

There are some people in the world that are just crazy, stupid, and evil. Though those things aren't necessarily related, the three together is just upsetting to us folks that are only one or two of those things.

However, as others have pointed out, it gave the Amish the spotlight and an opportunity to show us what we should be doing.