Do you think any divine intervention played a roll in this?
(CNN) -- Hundreds of homeless people in Nashville, Tennessee, ate well Wednesday evening -- all in the name of a man who the state put to death just hours earlier.
Philip Workman, 53, requested that his final meal be a vegetarian pizza donated to any homeless person located near Riverbend Maximum Security Institution.
He was executed there at 2 a.m. ET Wednesday.
But prison officials refused to honor his request, saying that they do not donate to charities.
That apparently upset a few people willing to pay for and deliver a lot of pies themselves.
Homeless shelters across Nashville were inundated with donated pizzas all Wednesday.
Full story:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/09/execution.pizza/index.html
2007-06-25 09:22:55 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
An act of sheer human compassion. Why is it so hard for some people to believe that somebody could change without a god doing it for them?
2007-06-25 09:45:28 · answer #1 · answered by Becca 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Really anyone that is good to people now is a miracle in the days we live in.I believe that God has complete control of all acts of kindness,He put it in us in the first place! He is love ,kindness ,joy,happiness,merciful,compassionate and we were all created in His image.Some choose to let His greatness abound from them and others dont. This was an act of a man doing what God would do.
God Bless
2007-06-25 09:31:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excellent last request...but no divine intervention involved, just people with an appreciation for irony. I mean, the state spent how much to feed, clothe, house, and kill him, including the last meal (some of which have been pretty extravagant), but can't give that final meal to someone who will live to digest it? That's priceless.
2007-06-25 09:26:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
I have to disagree with "Godless". there was LOTS of divine intervention involved in this story. It was divine inspiration (a form of intervention) that inspired the condemned man to make a request not for himself, but for another person. It was then divine intervention to inspire others to take up the cause of the condemned man and pay for and deliver the pizzas to give the homeless something to eat.
2007-06-25 09:31:50 · answer #4 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
God works in mysterious ways. And there is always a miracle when someone cares for another, dispite of their belief system.
2007-06-25 11:59:59 · answer #5 · answered by Nina, BaC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There have been times in all our lives where an act of compassion was truly an unexpected miracle.
2007-06-25 09:27:18 · answer #6 · answered by Graham 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The terms "miracle" and "acts of human compassion" are not mutually exclusive.
:)
2007-06-25 09:26:27 · answer #7 · answered by Oogglebooggle 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Human compassion.
2007-06-25 09:46:57 · answer #8 · answered by snowwatcher 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i would say that was God showing his glory in what seem to be a sad outcome of the family of the man on death row. he was willing to make his last request a selfishless one and look at the outcome of it.
2007-06-25 09:28:54 · answer #9 · answered by warrior*in*the*making 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
So he got his last wish anyway?! That is nice! I always feel so sad when someone is executed...
2007-06-25 09:26:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋