Here is my premise,
this is my belief based upon my scriptures.
God not only allows children to die, He has pre-ordained them to die. Hard for us to fathom, granted, but True nevertheless in Scripture. If we say he did not cause it and only allowed it to happen then God would be reacting to free will of man to accomplish their own destruction, thus putting too much power in men and essentially tying God's hands. God ordained for this latest tragedy for his own purposes, we cannot know them, we are not our creator, so The bible tells us we must accept that their is a divine plan and God is in control completely.
If you truly believe that God is all powerful, all knowing, and omnipotent, then you must also believe that every child that dies on this planet dies because God chooses to let it die.
Whether it be by lunatic gunman or by tornado or by "crib death".
God kills children, or at least lets children die when he/she could prevent it.
I say that if the only way God can convey the message, or the only way God can make his/her point, is by killing children, then he/she really isn't that powerful of a God.
In fact, I would make him/her appear to be weak or stupid or both.
So you have asked, where is the comfort in that? Why do religious peoples comfort families of these tragedies with this premise of a God in control? Well let me ask you Atheists would you attempt to comfort these mothers with your precept that there is no God? No heaven and no hell? That their children are reduced to dust as they came? That the man who murdered them who took his life is also Dust and there is no justice for them either? Both parties cease to exist, one guilty, one innocent, both have the same fate in the end.
How do you comfort a parent who has just lost his/her child to a disease? Or to a hurricane? Or to a car wreck? Or to a fall down the stairs?
There is no comfort.
People die and that is the only certain truth.
Or could it be more comforting that a God in control is with their babies now, that they know no suffering,feel no pain have no more tears and the man that took their life will be punished by a Just and perfect God.
Parents can choose to believe a lie if they wish, but no one can honestly say with any certainty what happens to dead children.
And what if God himself/herself killed the children (tornado, tsunami, disease)?
Will God be punished?
Where is the evil in my premise and the lack of evil in yours? I find evil in evildoing going unpunished.I find evil in a life given for no purpose but to die and cease to exist.
What say you?
There can be no other conclusion:
God kills children, or allows children to be killed, which is evil.
Or God cannot control such things, which makes him/her less than a God.
