Presidential candidate Marco Rubio spoke at a Rally last week in Iowa where he proclaimed that events like 9/11 and the Paris Massacre were all a part of God’s plan.
Rubio is certainly not the first evangelical to invoke God’s plan as a way of explaining tragedy. When many people question their faith based on the idea that a loving God would not allow such suffering and pain in the world, many like Rubio instead go in the opposite direction and argue that God orchestrated terrible events like 9/11 in some sort of fatherly goal of protecting humanity from some worse fate (that he would also orchestrate).
Rubio then went on to compare human tragedy to a child receiving a vaccination, at which point he effectively insulted the memory of anyone who has died in these catastrophes.
Watch.
