I’ve seen some opinion, blaming God for the deaths in Indonesia.

I’m far from qualified to stand as an apologist for the Almighty, but do you really think God wipes out people with Tsunamis? If He wanted them dead, they’d be dead. No big wet drama required. There are earthquakes, they displace the mass of water. So it goes. Life on our little blue ball is inherently dangerous.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the

children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the

long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

– Helen Keller

The destruction is the fault of diastrophism; plate tectonics. The deaths are the result. And if we weren’t so damn busy as a species making war and documenting the sexual cavorting of the hour’s celebrities, maybe the region would have had a warning system. Blaming God is, in a word, absurd.