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From St Petersburg Times Sep 13, 2010:

TAMPA — Officers are looking into the death of a 3-year-old girl after she was left in a car Sunday afternoon while her cousin was at church, according to police.

Rozin Ruebensa, of Tampa, was found unconscious after being left in the car for 90 minutes outside the Ebenezer Baptist Haitian Church, 2706 9th St. N, according to police.

Parishioners rushed Rozin inside and attempted CPR before Tampa Fire Rescue transported the girl to Tampa General Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Rozin’s cousin, Rodline Rigby, 25, had driven the toddler and two other children to church. A 12-year-old boy carried a one-year-old into the church, but Rozin was left inside the 1994 Nissan Pathfinder.

Rigby also was taken to Tampa General Hospital due to the stress of the incident, according to police.

An autopsy on Rozin will be conducted Monday.

Where was God? Maybe he was watching football while this girl was sitting in the car dying.

Somewhere in the world a man has abducted a little girl. Soon he will rape, torture, and kill her. If an atrocity of this kind not occurring at precisely this moment, it will happen in a few hours, or days at most. Such is the confidence we can draw from the statistical laws that govern the lives of six billion human beings. The same statistics also suggest that this girl’s parents believe — at this very moment — that an all-powerful and all-loving God is watching over them and their family. Are they right to believe this? Is it good that they believe this?

No.
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MONROE, Ohio - The famous King of Kings statue at the Solid Rock Church in Monroe is no longer after a fire destroyed the popular landmark Monday night.


The 62-foot tall statue of Jesus constructed out of styrofoam, wood and fiberglass resin caught on fire after the right hand of the statue was struck by lightning during the severe thunderstorms around 11:15 p.m.


The only thing left of the 16,000 pound statue is the metal frame.

Monroe Fire Chief Mark Neu said the statue was fully involved in fire when crews arrived.


Crews were able to use water from the pond in front of the statue, however, the fire burned very quickly, according to police.


The statue was grounded, but for some reason it did not absorb the lightning strike.


“I never thought this would be vulnerable, it was a real tragedy,” Chief Neu said.
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Via Hemant Mehta comes this story that could not have happened at a more appropriate time.


One of the most basic principles of the United States, written out in the very first Amendment of the Bill of Rights, is that the government will neither endorse nor deny any specific religion, or interfere with anyone’s ability to worship or not.

This is pretty straightforward. You have the right to your religion, and I have the right to mine. You even have the right to not have a religion. But no matter what, you have the right to not have your religion interfered with.

Eric Workman, a (now-graduated) high school student in Greenwood, Indiana, understood this. That’s why, when his school administration decided to let the seniors vote on whether they wanted to have an official school-sanctioned prayer at graduation, he tried to get it stopped. He wound up having to take the case to the ACLU, and a judge ordered that no school-sanctioned prayer could be held at the ceremony.
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