Why God Why?
News such as this firmly resolve my view that I should really assail a determined position to come out and share my views and have a louder voice in saying that the world makes perfect sense without a God. We should focus more on humanity and the pursuit of changing our lives for the better instead of wasting our time worshipping an imaginary god. I do not know how to feel when I heard about the stampede in India. Call it apathy on religion, indifference on belief or anger on fanatics, the only thing I can do is sigh....
Rumors of a landslide apparently started the panic at the shrine in the foothills of the Himalayas, said C.P. Verma, a senior government official in the Bilaspur district. Pilgrims already at the Naina Devi Temple began running down the narrow path leading from the peak. There, they collided with devotees winding their way up. With a concrete wall on one side and a precipice on the other, there was nowhere to escape and they were crushed. At one point a guard rail broke and dozens of people fell to their deaths. The bodies of the devotees — many dressed in brightly colored holiday clothes — carpeted the path, intertwined with flattened iron railings. Many still held the flowers and food they planned to offer at the temple. Police said they used a cable car at the shrine to ferry some of the bodies down, and helicopters flew in to take the wounded to hospitals. CNN News.
It's the third deadly stampede to occur during a religious festival this year in India, though death tolls were a fraction of today's grim tally. One of the worshippers said, ""I fail to understand why God was so cruel to us."