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Beatified by an Assassin’s Bullet?
Providence or random chance? Which was it that saved Donald Trump? And, if providence, are we to attribute it to the Lord God Almighty of the Christian and Jewish Bible? To satisfy the mob, my inclination is to say, I don’t know. But that would not be true. I do know. God determined it. He is not about to leave things to chance. Where might that lead? It makes no sense to me to think otherwise. But, then again, many think the whole thing from the dawn of time is down to blind chance. Deus non est.
So, what am I saying? Is the Secret Service off the hook because God made them inept on the day? No, as a Christian of the Anglican persuasion, I accept the conundrum of predetermination and free will coexisting. Mind you, how that works is beyond my puny brain. And, much more notably, beyond the comprehension of any number of learned theologians. See, for example, Predestination and Free Will (1986) in which four theologians of repute debate their different approaches to solving the…
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