[txradioguy]

Go back and start reading this thread from the early 200's.

People were talking about this being "God's Justice".

Yes there have been people talking about this in Biblical Proportions.

[petitfour]

Well, now, I skipped over the middle posts. I can understand why some might find posts like that a little kooky. As for the veracity of the initial report, I expect that it will be confirmed within the next few days.

[Steve_Seattle]

"People were talking about this being "God's Justice". Yes there have been people talking about this in Biblical Proportions."

I don't know what the threshhold is for an event being of "Biblical proportions," but in my book, this qualifies. As for this being a sign of "God's justice," it's natural for people who believe in Divine Providence to try to interpret events according to that belief, and a disaster such as this is obviously more likely to be interpreted as punishment rather than reward. (In fact, even agnostics and atheists often tend to interpret events as involving some kind of "karma" or impersonal justice.) In the Old Testament, catastrophic events were typically interpreted as signs of God's disfavor. Jesus, however, said that God let's the rain fall on the just and the unjust alike. So even within the Judeo-Christian tradition, there is more than one way of looking at it.