Certainly for Christians there's truth in that Fru. But I think for the rest of the world it goes beyond that.
While it's not articulated, I think there's an underlying knowledged that those who believe in other "deities" know their guys don't have this much power or this much control over the forces of nature.
True, but often even we Christians fail to accept that we are chastened, sometimes even to the point of death. Like children we often to not see temporal judgement and chastening as being God's will for us, but rather events that were reluctantly allowed to happen and "hurt Him more than it hurt us." And that's just as it relates to tragedies which befall us believers.
What I see from Dr Rowan is what I see from a lot of other Christians I talk to...the struggle to comprehend how a "God of love" can allow such "horrible tragedies" to occur to "innocent people."