For all those who feel or feign outrage at Richard Mourdock’s abortion/rape theodicy, a few sage words from a guy who’d have been called “Joe” were he not second in command to a guy called “Pharoah.”
Talking to his brothers, who had sold him into slavery and told their dad he’d been eaten by a lion, in circumstance where the brothers were thinking “We are soooooo screwed,” he said:
But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
(Genesis 50:20, King James version)
Tipsy Teetotaler ن 