“Sometimes a disease is just a disease.”
Ditto! While there’s always plenty of evil to go around in this world, it’s rather a stretch to connect moral misbehavior to natural disasters. Now supernatural disasters are a completely different thing, but I haven’t noted any of those recently. Plenty of natural ones. No supernatural ones.
All the same, the author recounts the plague years in a rather interesting fashion. It’s certainly worthwhile knowing the history of these epidemics, just as it is useful to study the characteristics of the influenza epidemic of the early 20th century. That century had no shortage of disasters. There were epidemics, wars, attempted mass annihalations of entire races, even tens/hundreds of millions exterminated by the various flavors of Socialism (Communism, National Socialism etc. excercising their wiles upon their own populations). The “body count” in the 20th century was nothing to sniff at, and every bit of it was caused by man or natural disasters. Again, no supernatural disasters that I’m aware of.
Now, having said that, I’ll be interested to see if the author can make a credible case for supernatural disasters in his/her next installment. God can certainly get directly involved if he wishes. I’m certainly not one to stop him. The point is, that the natural Universe and the disfunctional elements within the world’s population, do a swell job of tearing things up as it is.
I want a front row seat when God gets directly involved. As a recipient of certain small, but not insignificant interventions by God on behalf of my family, I can spot supernatural events easier than most. I would be fascinated in seeing a global intervention on the part of God. Setting the matter of faith aside, it would be inspiring to see a sublime supernatural act. I don’t need it to believe, but it might be useful to those whose faith and situational awareness is poor. As of yet, I haven’t seen a big ‘un, but I appreciate whats come my way already.
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That has an underlying current that says such are not allowed by God to correct evils. A disease, as all things, are in His hands regardless of how we decide to define such.
All things are God's, I don't see the difference if He should desire to do something directly which is possible or indirectly which of course is also possible.
I believe that AIDS (just a disease) was allowed as an act of mercy.
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