A good natural disaster like the Haiti earthquake always brings them out. People who question whether God cares, or whether there is a God at all. Then there are the ones, as in Pat Robertson, who says God is punishing people for their transgressions. Atheist religion leader, Richard Dawkins, in a USA today blog says he’s helping Haiti to prove that non-believers are just as good as those who believe in God. Really, Richard! That’s your proof?
Doesn’t leave much room for those of us who believe in God, but also believe the earth and the universe work in natural ways established in the beginning.
Some remember Superman, in a movie, flying around the earth so fast that he reversed its rotation. That took us back in time a whole day and brought back the life of his girl friend who had been killed the day before. Imagine God doing that. Even the All-Powerful would have a problem. That trick would totally upset the balance of the solar system and probably the universe. And who knows what unintended consequences would come from interfering with earth’s natural processes such as earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes and such?
And if God did decide to change the way the universe works just to spare humans from getting hurt, how much hurt should he stop? Would that include reaching down and picking up rocks from playgrounds so no child’s toe ever got stubbed? If you consider that ridiculous, where in the line between tsunami and toe stubbing do you think God should cease interfering in natural processes? And if you pick a point for that, what makes you think your’re so smart?
God as Superman? Jumping in minute by minute to abolish all the stuff some humans consider bad? If he constantly tinkered with the way things work, how could we count on anything happening the same way twice? And how chaotic would that be?
