Many of the same people shouting out in complaint to God would be among the first to cry foul if His solution was an infringment upon their 'rights' and 'free will' - especially if that meant taking away their children so those children would no longer be taught their parents' lies.
Okaaayyy, dear tec (the greatest of love and peace to you and yours, dear one!)? I marvel that so many who claim to "know" have absolutely NO idea what the word "hypocrite" REALLY means! Each side clamors for the SAME thing: let me choose my own path (and that of my children), run my own life (and that of my children), make my own choices (and that of my children), and do what I want to do (for and with regard to my children)... and then blame God FOR such choices!
Your god is responsible for tsunamis, earthquakes and disease - even you can't pin those on people not 'believing'.
All of these are results of and unique to the physical world, indeed the planet we live on, or the flesh, dear Q (as always, peace to you!). Since "we" want to govern ourselves, is it not also up to us to control our environment, to either tame it or learn about it... as well as make choices (including, perhaps, where to safely habitate, how to control disease... when, where, and how to help our fellowman, etc.) so that it does not destroy us? And shouldn't such concerns be with regard to ALL of us... AS A SPECIES/GENUS... versus only SOME of us? But isn't our tendency to look after our own flesh FIRST... so that, for a great part, what you see overcoming people detrimentally IS the result?
Earthquakes and tsunamis are NATURAL events - belonging to and the rsult of the NATURE of this world. Yet, we build on shorelines and faults. We habitate flood plains and volcano bases. We occupy tornado "alleys".
God also really hates the illiterate, the feeble, the young, old and infirm since his disasters always get them first.
That apparently isn't the case in California (or much of the US). Here, it's been the ritzy parts of SF and LA (the Loma Prieta and Northridge quakes), or the fancy homes built on the side of cliffs or near forests (that succumb to mudslides or fire)... or built in remote areas along creeks and canals that historically flood. Even so, God isn't the one who places a high price on education. He isn't the one closing schools while fighting wars. He isn't the one paying internet moguls more than teachers. He isn't the one trying to do away with government assistance, medicare, social security, better health benefits. He isn't the one who won't see a patient because they don't have [enough] insurance and He has that Audi payment to make. He isn't the one who builds their houses on faults, near railroad tracks, out of inferior materials in shabby forms. He isn't the one that makes the COST of housing... of food... of medicine/health care... so expensive. HIS law is that such things are to be GIVEN... WITHOUT cost... to "any" who ask for it... by those who have it.
WE throw away an abundance of food... or let it sit rotting on docks... while babies are starving, perhaps even within miles of us. We have closets full of shoes... while some have none at all. In this country alone WE throw away food, clothing... even medical supplies/apparatuses, medication, and more... while people within hours could be saved with such. WE do this. Do we HAVE to? Nope.
But rather than look in the mirror, rather than say, "I do/did this" or "WE do/did this"... we look outside... through the window. At God... whom we attempt to blame. Why? Because He doesn't answer you back the way your fellowman would. And how would your fellowman answer? He would either tell you to F-off, mind your OWN business and quit worrying about HIM... or ask you what it is the YOU'RE doing and demand that YOU prove it (which you most probably can't). So, rather than blame him (man), or yourself... you turn to One who you THINK will not answer you back. You are mistaken, though. In His due time, He will certainly respond.
In the meantime, do you not see how COWARDLY it is to blame Him... how unaccountable and unresponsible it is? Okay, so YOUR life sucks. Or yo look around and see that others' sucks. At what point do you look IN THE MIRROR... and take responsibility for that? At what point do you ADMIT that it IS the result of our choices... and our inability to govern ourselves... because, while SOME will do all they can to look after their brother and/or fellowman, MOST will do absolutely NOTHING? Indeed, most will TAKE from others, if it means more for them and theirs? At what point do we acknowledge that? At what point do we acknowledge that people are killed/tribes are wiped out... NOT for food, NOT for medicine... but for GOLD, DIAMONDS, OIL... and things like these?
A funny thought just occurred to me: where the little children in Africa truly starving... before the man of the "civilized" world and its "religion" got there? Were the little children of the Amazon suffering from disease? Were the aboriginies of Australia refugees fleeing from war-torn cities? I think that if you took a TRUTHFUL look at these things, you would see than man is a HECKUVA lot more responsible for what many of these "poor" people have undergone and undergo... than God ever was or ever could be.
Start with the man in the mirror, Q. Then the ones outside your window that you can see. THEN perhaps you can look to God. I don't think you will (as to the first) or, if you do, can (as to the last).
A slave of Christ,
SA
