Why doesn’t God prevent innocent children from being harmed?<\/a><\/p>\nI’ll admit, I was ready to fight at first, but by the end of the entire response, I felt that you detailed and answered all of my grievances that not only that person was feeling, and where so many other people and priests failed.<\/p>\n\t
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I’m glad it helped answer your concerns.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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