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I read somewhere that 1.8 people die every second. That's 150,000 a day. Earthly life is short, folks. So, 300,000 die that day instead of the usual 150,000 and people start questioning God? This may sound crass but if doubling the death rate for a single day puts God on someone's radar screen, something good will come out of this. God uses all things for good, even that meant for evil.

Actually, given that your 1.8 p/second figure is an average, this temporary spike in mortality due to the Asian disaster is actually already figured into it as such numbers are a rolling average. Think of it as a statistical speed bump.

Were it not for a global media, hungry for every story to draw viewers in order to maintain its rates for commercial advertising, we would hear a great deal less of such matters.

It raises the question of whether such a disaster would even exist if we did not have a profit-oriented mass media hawking this product (Asian disaster) to us. After all, if a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, then did it really make a sound? Essentially, the physical phenomenon of sound was propagated regardless of whether anyone was present to perceive it but from a human perspective, if no one heard the sound and was able to carry the news to others and communicate it, the event simply did not occur.

Anyway, we do have such a mass media who enjoys moralizing endlessly from a liberal political perspective to hand down guilt to us because we are so evil as to fail to share every noble sentiment and heart-rending bit of anguish they so love to parade as their most esteemed professional credential. There is literally a competition among these crying liberal slobs of who can write the most maudlin liberal drivel in concise prose to hawk to the general public.

As far as the pagan bishop of Canterbury, it is clear he worships the flesh. He should be far less concerned that these people died, as far more do every day from other causes, but that they lived and died without Christ and under the sway of false religions or dwelling in godlessness. Again, he is concerned with the flesh and not with a person's eternal spiritual destination. In short, he holds no confidence in eternal life in Christ and his every word makes it apparent.

The false bishop is an anti-Christ and his own words convict him of heresy and usurpation of his post under false pretence.