If God saved Trump from a shooting, what about the man who died?

It puzzles me when people make out God to be an idiot. Or worse.

That’s pretty much what Donald Trump and many of his supporters – including pastors – have done following the assassination attempt on Trump.

During his speech before the Republican National Convention on Thursday Trump said, “I had God on my side.”

This was echoed again and again.

Former Fox News host and Trump devotee Tucker Carlson said, “I think it was divine intervention.”

Was Trump truly 'blessed by the hand of God'?

Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina said, “If you didn't believe in miracles before Saturday, you better be believing right now … Our God still saves.”

Pastor Robert Jeffress of the First Baptist Dallas said, “What happened yesterday is also a demonstration of the power of almighty God.”

Failed Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said, “I personally believe that God intervened today, not just on behalf of President Trump but on behalf of our country.”

Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott said, “Trump is truly blessed by the hand of God — being able to evade being assassinated.”

It went on and on.

If true, what questions should we ask of Corey Comperatore?

Always forgetting the other guy.

The shots fired by the clearly disturbed Matthew Thomas Crooks may only have grazed Trump’s ear, but they took the life of 50-year-old firefighter Corey Comperatore. A good man. A worthy man.

If Trump, as Gov. Abbott said, was “blessed by the hand of God,” was Comperatore not?

If “divine intervention” saved Trump, as Tucker Carlson said, was Comperatore not worthy of similar relief?

If God, as Trump said, was “on my side,” was the Almighty not on the side of Comperatore?

Or is it even worse than that?

Are they talking about a God more bumbling than all powerful, capable of saving one man from a bullet but not organized or aware enough to keep the bullets from harming anyone else?

I prefer a version of the God I was told about in parochial school. A God who loved and cared about each of us, and who imbues each of us – all of us, the good and the bad – with free will.

A God who loves Donald Trump and Corey Comperatore equally, and who had no part in saving one or allowing the other to be killed.

Reach Montini at ed.montini@arizonarepublic.com.

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