4 Christian Leaders Offer Perspectives on the Las Vegas Massacre

By Brandon Showalter, Opinion writer and social commentator
A woman looks at a makeshift memorial on the Las Vegas Strip for victims of the Route 91 music festival mass shooting next to the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. October 3, 2017.
A woman looks at a makeshift memorial on the Las Vegas Strip for victims of the Route 91 music festival mass shooting next to the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. October 3, 2017. | (Photo: REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson)

In what is being called the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history, the slaughter of 59 people at the Route 91 music festival in Las Vegas Sunday night has gripped the United States with sorrow and horror.

Amid growing frustration and the creeping feeling that these kinds of violent events constitute a new normal as several have happened in recent years, questions such as "Where was God?" and "Why does God allow suffering?" are being raised again.

Here are the responses of four Christian leaders and writers. (Click arrow above image)

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