The minister responded to the bereaved daughter's anger: "god doesn't give us diseases." Then who gave the dead woman the lethal pathogen and the imperfect immune system that together killed her?

My friend's brand-new grandbaby is in the hospital with meningitis. Now might not be a good time to argue the merits of your all-powerful, loving god.

No self-respecting god would tolerate so many hackneyed, gratuitous apologies offered on his behalf; he would smite the presumptuous apologists.