[aruanan]

The Asian tsunami disaster should make all Christians question the existence of God, Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, writes in The Telegraph today.

What a dolt. What it should make everybody wonder is whether or not human insistence on continued individual existence as the be-all and end-all of existence isn't another form of idolatry.

People have looked at the accounts of God using the Israelites to wipe out entire city states as adequate reason to question the existence of God. Why not, rather, ask whether people don't have too easy-going an attitude toward sin that causes them to judge God harshly who may very well have been doing the most merciful thing he could do under the circumstances?

Man to God; "Ooooh, I wouldn't have done things this way if I were you! Therefore, I have good reason to believe you don't exist."

As far as the tsunami being divine retribution: God makes the rain fall on the good and the evil; the same is true of natural disaster. We live in a real world with real consequences, some of them deadly. Water is good, but not if you try to breathe it. Air is good, but not if you inject a large amount into an artery. A common orifice for esophagus and larynx is pretty good, unless you try to inhale food. But the fact that you can die if you step in front of a truck doesn't mean that God doesn't exist.

[Piers-the-Ploughman]

I like your analysis. It is a fallen world too, and it does rain on the good and evil.

"And why do you suppose that tower fell and killed 18 people? Was it because they were more guilty than the rest? Not in the least!" a paraphrase from the Gospels