Faith

Okay, I have to say this. I'm sorry if anyone is offended but I really don't understand this. I'm watching a news video about a young man who, on the way home from his graduation with his Dad, was sucked out of their car through the sunroof by a tornado. The car was lifted and tossed by the tornado. The father was very badly injured and is still in the hospital. They have yet to find the young man's body. I cannot even fathom the horror this family is suffering. I don't want to even imagine it. So the aunt is being interviewed and the interviewer says that he hopes the family can find the strength to get through this... words to that effect, and the woman say, "Well, our family has a lot of faith in God... I don't know what came after that. I was too upset to let it continue.


Now, someone please explain to me... I don't even know how to phrase it... Your loved one has just been brutally killed. You can't even find his body. Another loved one is horribly injured. You don't even know if he'll survive. Not to mention that this was all on a day that should have been special to the family. And your entire community has been devastated. Please someone explain to me how a person could have faith in God? That He'll do what? Help you find the body? It would seem to me that the time for Him to help would be BEFORE the tornado. Wouldn't you say?

Is it just the "faith" that holds a person together through such an experience? Not actually a god but just the faith? I can understand that it would help to have something on which to focus to keep a person from falling apart. Like a form of self-hypnosis. But what is it the person is expecting? Are they expecting their god to do something? Do they believe there is an actual personal god who can and will help them? Or is it just what people say? I mean, I would hardly expect or even accept comfort from someone who could have easily prevented the tragedy. I really want to know how this works. I don't remember. Maybe it's different for different people. I'd really like everyone's take on this; Christian or not. Or any other religion.


Now, I'm beyond any preaching here so I just want an answer. I'm not going to change my mind on my own beliefs. I've been all through it. Anyone who has known me for long knows how serious I was about God and being a Christian. I'll never go back to that. I manage a lot better on what I believe now instead of having bad things happen and wondering why and waiting for a supernatural being to somehow help me and wondering why He won't answer. And don't tell me the silence means "no" or "wait" either. Silence is silence.


I appreciate and look forward to your honest and thought-filled response.

Sean Keefe: A Case of Paternity Fraud

To anyone with any sense of justice and morality, the fact that this injustice must be corrected and now is obvious. I don't see how any logical and reasonable person could see otherwise. Sean Keefe is the uncle of a friend of mine. I'll let him tell his own story in the video below--and I recommend clicking through to youtube to read more details--but this situation has touched me in such a way that I must comment. Not only comment but do whatever I can to spread the facts of this miscarriage of justice so that perhaps others will stand up for the liberty and justice for all of which America is supposed to represent.


What has been done to this young man, while not the first case of injustice I've seen, and not even the worst, strikes me hard when I think this could be my own son going through this. While I support Sean and his efforts, and while I respect him and hope this all works out for him, this is not about Sean. This is about what's right and what's wrong. This is happening to men all over the country. The details of this are told on Sean's Facebook page and his Youtube page so I'll not repeat it here but PLEASE go to those sites and read about it. There are 38 states with no paternity fraud laws. If your state is among them, and West Virgina IS, then PLEASE do what you can help us bring about laws that will protect people from that harm that is brought about by dishonest people who are willing to use their own child to extract money deceitfully from innocent people.


Please watch this video and then check the links below for more information and actions that you can take to help Sean and to correct this injustice for others.











Sean's Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/WV.Paternity.Fraud?sk=info [If you read through the comments, you will find contact information. Please write to these media outlets and government agencies to get more attention to the matter and get help from anyone who is able.] Please do what you can to help get this information out. Thanks.


Sean's Youtube page: http://www.youtube.com/user/SPKCEK
West Virginia Senate Bill 502: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb502+intr.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=502 [Paternity Justice Act of 2011]
West Virginia Senate Bill 503: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb503+intr.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=503 [Why on earth should a person have to support a former spouse who cheated on him? That's absurd. The cheater should be paying, if anyone.]


In researching this matter, I have found the following links of interest:


http://www.ejfi.org/family/family-78.htm#paternity [Such are the injustices of our laws and courts.]