I sure hope no one is giving the surviving kids the impression that they were saved and others weren't because of some kind of favoritism by their god....that would REALLY mess them up.I'm sure there wasn't time to teach them that......sounds like they may have all know Jesus Loves me. Wonder why?
That's easy.
Brain washing and indoctrination.
What about the innocent children who were killed? Are they in heaven right now, waiting in a long line to complain to the god they prayed to?
I have no doubt that prayer comforts the weak minded or, as with these children, the innocent but that doesn't make it any less brainless.
As others have noted, those meek followers that survive disasters will say that dog saved them. **shrug**
That doesn't make it true.
Does anyone have the courage to tell the survivors that the gods were out to get them - but missed?