So, Apparently God Is An Insecure, Vindicticve Asshole

Natural disasters are just that, natural. Hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes and tornadoes happen because of plate tectonics or atmospheric conditions, not because god is pissed.

SENDAI, Japan (March 12, 2011) An SH-60B helicopter assigned to the Chargers of Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron (HS) 14 from Naval Air Facility Atsugi flies over the city of Sendai to deliver more than 1,500 pounds of food to survivors of an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and a tsunami. The citizens of Ebina City, Japan, donated the food, and HS-14 is supporting earthquake and tsunami relief operations in Japan as directed. (U.S. Navy photo/Released)
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I get disgusted when I hear religious people spouting off that some horrible natural disaster that costs human life is all the result of sin. Just in recent memory I've heard sinners (often the gays, but sometimes sinners in general) are the cause of earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, Japan, New Zealand and China; tsunamis in Sri Lanka and Japan; Hurricanes in North and Central America and countless other natural disasters.

This bullshit abounds after every natural disaster from all corners, the televangelists, the cable news sociopaths, even Facebook has this inaccurate pile of crap floating around.

"Sept 11th (NewYork) Jan 11th (Haiti) and March 11th (Japan)........Luke 21:10-11 Then Jesus said to his disciples : "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes', famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven. 'Jesus says for behold I come quickly,' So ask yourself r u ready? Sad to say, many won't repost this message"

Assuming that all of these things occurred on the 11th day of a month (they didn't), they all occurred in different months and in different years, with no noticeable pattern, what does that have to do with the passage quoted? Luke isn't the 11th book of the Bible, it's the third in the New Testament. It isn't the 11th chapter of Luke, it's the 21st. The only correlation is that the 11th verse references bad things. Grasping at straws much?

There are two things that piss me off so much about hearing this every time something bad happens. The first one is he basic principle of it. God is pissed off at one group of people, and instead of punishing those people, he kills innocents? Does he just have bad aim? Is he that petty? Every one of his attempts to "send a message" fails and the world hasn't ended yet. I thought god was supposed to love all of his children, why does he keep trying to kill them off?

The second is the insensitivity of it all. At the time these asinine statements come out, there are usually thousands of people dead and more homeless and without the basic necessities of life. Instead of worrying about ways to connect the people you hate with horrible disasters, you "love thy neighbor" which I'm told is a lesson from Jesus, and have some compassion and decency.