Or are they just super unlucky?
2006-07-17 18:40:29 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In case someone didn't know, I was referring to the various recent natural disasters that have plagued the country. There was another tsunami in that area today which claimed the lives of hundreds of people.
2006-07-17 19:01:56 · update #1
God may not hate anyone but some of you a**holes sure do. No need to get so offensive.
2006-07-19 03:14:07 · update #2
god isn't about hate, he's about love.
2006-07-17 18:43:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
For the same reasons he "hated" the New Orleaneans, or Floridians or the people of the Midwest who get their share of toranados. If you are mature, you do not jump to such conclusions.
For centuries the Indonesians were fine as practicing Muslims. May be they are getting more lax, may be they are allowing all kinds of dirty business take place on their shores. May be their government is not followig ISLAM as it should. Saudi Arabia is blessed with a lot of oil. ... See, how you can distort or tilt any argument in any which way you want.
Natural disasters happen so humanity can come together and address the issues as one large human family. Let us get together and work for peace, all of us.
2006-07-17 19:00:48 · answer #2 · answered by NQV 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes that's right, there are so many disasters that struck Indonesia lately. Some were caused by natural events, but some other were actually caused by human being. People have over exploited the land and sea, and in turn the over exploitation caused so many "natural disasters".
In short, people are also responsible by taking a huge participation in the making of "natural" disasters.
2006-07-17 19:10:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God doesn't hate at all...but..because they live on the islands which have a lot of volcanic mountains, surrounded by sea, ocean...so whenever the natural disaster strucks..they are hit hard...like Philippines, Japan
2006-07-17 19:00:57 · answer #4 · answered by khutswe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that God hates them. But I know that it has the largest population of Muslims. It might be that God could hate the persecution of Christians in Indonesia by Muslim extremists (i.e. the 3 teenage Christian school girls who were chased down by Muslim extremists and beheaded with a machete blade while they tried to escape). But that wouldn't necessarily mean that God sent natural disasters to Indonesia.
By the way, the news story was given a dead link by Yahoo (unlike if it had been about a scandal in the Catholic Church). But, I foresaw that they would not keep the news story for long, so here it is:
Three Indonesian students beheaded - police
By Tomi Soetjipto and Telly Nathalia Sat Oct 29, 4:41 AM ET
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Three teenage Christian women were beheaded on Saturday by two assailants wearing helmets in eastern Indonesia as they walked to school near the Muslim town of Poso, officials said.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono condemned the killings, which he described as "sadist and inhuman crimes," and called an emergency security meeting with his vice-president, as well as military officials and police.
Two men on a motorcycle and armed with machetes attacked the 16-year-old students on the eastern island of Sulawese, a police official in Poso told Reuters.
"The men slashed and chopped off their heads. One of the students managed to escape and jumped into the bushes in a ravine and the assailants stopped chasing her," said the official who declined to be identified.
Poso, 1,500 km (900 miles) northeast of Jakarta, is in an area where three years of Muslim-Christian clashes have killed 2,000 people until a peace deal was agreed in late 2001.
Although religious fighting has largely subsided, tension is still running high in the region following bombings in the neighboring Christian town of Tentena which killed 22 people in May.
Security experts have said local Islamic radicals may have been responsible for the bombings in Tentena but police said they had no information on who was responsible for Saturday's attacks.
The official Antara news agency said police were searching the area but so far no one had been detained.
Police said the student who escaped said the attackers wore helmets and carried a two-way radio.
The three headless bodies of the high school students, dressed in brown uniforms, were left at the site of the attack. Three heads were found at separate locations two hours later by residents.
"One was found about 100 metres away from a church," said police.
The wounded student was treated for cuts to her face at a local hospital.
About 85 percent of Indonesia's 220 million people are Muslim. But in some eastern parts, Christian and Muslim populations are about equal.
2006-07-17 18:43:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God hates no one. The Bible says that in every nation the man who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him. It also says that time and unforseen occurance befall us all.
2006-07-17 18:53:26 · answer #6 · answered by Sparkle1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God hates everyone except Jews. Read your Bible. Philistines, Caananites, Midianites, the list goes on and on.
-SD-
2006-07-17 18:46:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God takes pleasure in the death of NO man (Holy Bible).
Grace and Peace to you
2006-07-17 18:45:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God just wanna teach them about morale, not all religious
2006-07-17 18:43:56 · answer #9 · answered by Dark Angel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God does not hate that is the devil who does that GOD is LOVE
2006-07-17 18:47:13 · answer #10 · answered by jamnjims 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well because they get too many children and their islands are overcrowded now so any natural event would wipe some of them
2006-07-17 18:44:00 · answer #11 · answered by Karim M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋