"The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God’s infinite love. That’s the message we’re brought up with, isn’t it? Believe or die! .....Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options."
Police say there has been a second blast inside the New Zealand mine where 29 workers are missing and that no one could have survived.
Police superintendent Gary Knowles said the second explosion occurred Wednesday afternoon.
Potentially explosive methane gas had been swirling in the Pike River mine since the initial blast last Friday.
A drilling team on Wednesday broke a narrow shaft through to the section of a New Zealand coal mine where 29 workers have been missing for almost six days, and was greeted by a blast of potentially deadly gases from inside.
Nothing has been heard from the missing miners since the blast. Toxic and potentially explosive gases have kept rescuers from entering the mine, though an army bomb disposal robot crawled two-thirds of a mile (1 kilometer) into the tunnel on Wednesday and found a miner's helmet with its fixed light still glowing.
Hot air and gas rushed the hole when the chamber roof was punctured, and Pike River Coal Ltd. chief Peter Whittall said initial tests showed it was "extremely high in carbon monoxide, very high in methane and fairly low in oxygen." Carbon monoxide - the polluting gas from car exhausts - is extremely poisonous, while explosive methane is the gas believed to have ignited in Friday's blast.
North Korea fired dozens of artillery shells onto a South Korean island on Tuesday, killing two people, setting homes ablaze and triggering an exchange of fire as the South's military went on top alert.
In what appeared to be one of the most serious border incidents since the 1950-53 war, South Korean troops fired back with cannon, the government convened in an underground war room and "multiple" air force jets scrambled.
North Korea's military supreme command, however, accused South Korea of firing first and vowed "to quell provocative actions with a merciless thunderbolt".
The shelling began at 2.34pm local time on Tuesday (1634 AEDT) after the North sent several messages protesting about South Korean naval, air force and army training exercises being staged close to the border, a presidential spokesman said.
South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak convened an emergency meeting of ministers and national security advisers in an underground war room, a presidential spokesman said.
Lee urged the officials "to prevent further escalation", but his office also warned that South Korea would "sternly retaliate" for any further provocations.
Inter-Korean talks scheduled for Thursday, aimed at arranging further reunions of families separated by the war, have been delayed indefinitely, Seoul's unification ministry said.
Yes damn us atheists for all the blood and loss of lives in those horrible wars over the centurys. Who could forget the atheist wars such as the terrible Crusades, the 30 year war, Taiping Rebellion or the...............oh wait a second
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things. But for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.”
Get your dog and your lover and lock them both in the boot of your car and leave them there for a few hours. Now after you open the boot, which one will be happy to see you?
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RE: death
The beginning...of a zombie apocalypse.....