[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.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

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.

Excellent observations.

[DJ MacWoW]

God also gave us a rainbow.

I get upset when people refer to catastrophic storms as an act of God when they are not. There's definately a "blame Bush" crowd but there's an older group......."blame God". ;)