Therein might lie the problem, said psychologist Harald Graning of Confidential Counseling of Westminster.
While the Browns might look like the ultimate ingrates, their response is not unnatural, he said.
"Suppose that you were living your life," he said, "and all of a sudden God came down and destroyed your house? You'd probably be pissed."
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Suppose that you were living your life, and a deadly hurricane began tracking toward your house? You made unwise choices for whatever reasons, and suffered devastating consequences, but you and your family escaped with your lives, and God provided a way out of the devastation, and a home for you and your family with all of the necessities of life. Those provisions were free, with only the expectation that you would bear the responsibilty of maintaining them, and leaving them in the condition in which you found them for the next family that might be in need of them. Wouldn't you be thankful? Wouldn't you be appreciative enough to meet those expectations because you would want to help someone else the way you had been helped?
However, you could follow the counsel of the "psychologist" - or, perhaps your "natural" instincts - and blame good, and excuse evil, and be offended that the provisions were too little, and too late. He would say that is "not unnatural", and he is a psychologist, so he must know - right?
Well stated.