Like tsunamis and earthquakes.
Is it a sign God (not Allah) is starting to get pi$$ed at them?
2006-09-26 17:51:34 · 18 answers · asked by managuense 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Don't compare KAtrina, where a few people who refused to leave died to the tsunami where 100,000+ died. It's absurd.
How about the big quakes in Turkey, Iran and Pakistan? They were all in fact biblical compared to SF, both in magnitude and loss of life.
2006-09-26 17:58:40 · update #1
If you serve allah then you deserve get smacked down by biblical size disasters if you are a muslim.
=0p
2006-09-26 17:55:24 · answer #1 · answered by Pashur 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Do not speak so soon out of turn. Vanity goes before the fall.
Everyone get their share. Katrina, Hugo, etc. hurricanes and other meterlogical phenomena are small examples. of what happens to Christian nations.
Christians have hosted wars that have killed many of their own numbers, and have sunk their nations into moral depravity. Christians have impovershed many of their own numbers and those of others. They have not acted like Christ.
Christians bombed a town 98% Christians with the A-bomb, in 1945. Christians commited genocide in Europe several times. The founding of USA was based on genocide, that in covert ways are still present.
"If more Christians acted like Christ, the whole world be Christians." - Ghandi
It is on the way. "You do not always get what you pay for, but you definitely pay for what you get." - F. Douglass.
2006-09-27 01:07:42 · answer #2 · answered by LeBlanc 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Was or is New Orleans Muslim? Where the occupants of the Twin Towers Muslim? Is the vast area of America in serious drought Muslim? Is the epidemic of mental and physical illness, the fat-diabetic plague and economic disintegration a Muslim problem in "Christian" nations?
Want to see some quakes, etc., or so-called acts of god as termed by insurance companies? The turn is coming for so-called Christians.
2006-09-27 01:12:58 · answer #3 · answered by Tommy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess it's safe to say we have had our fair share of 'Biblical sized disasters' over the years.
You know, plagues, floods and the like.
Still, I'm quite sure we got a kicking in the tsunami like you lot, though maybe not as hard.
9/11, bit of a kick in the teeth.
Aid to the 3rd world, financially punishing.
Looking over our shoulder all the time, annoying.
Yeah, fcuk it, I hope we get the good weather in the Global Warming Stakes too.
2006-09-27 01:03:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Katrina?
Hello?
We have building codes here so earthquakes do not kill very many people. Tsunami warning systems, too. Plus, people don't live in grass huts on the beach in the USA. A lot of people die in Central America from those two causes and they are mostly Catholic.
2006-09-27 01:00:29 · answer #5 · answered by Mai Tai Mike 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The rain falls on the just ans the unjust.
We just had an earthquake a few nights ago. Further, look at WTC, Rita, Katrina, etc.
We get smacked down just like everyone else. Difference is, we have faith that everyhting will work out for the best, we don't get disouraged.
2006-09-27 00:56:48 · answer #6 · answered by azar_and_bath 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
1 Cor 10:26 For the earth is the Lord's KJV
The earth responds to the inhabitants upon it. If you recall, part of the curse upon Cain was "When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength"
Following that incident, not a single descendant of Cain went into agriculture or animal husbandry.
Men do significant damage themselves with poor farming practices, deforestation, pollution, forest fires, but I think there's more than meets the eye when it comes to the earth itself.
God told them in Lev 20:22 "Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out."
There's also Rev 11:18 "And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth." KJV
God is a jealous God. We should be more mindful of 1 Peter 4:18 where it says "And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?" KJV
The answer to this rhetorical question is "They won't."
2006-09-27 00:54:50 · answer #7 · answered by s2scrm 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What are you talking about? Natural disasters happen everywhere and to everyone and they don't tend to discriminate against any particular people. I'd have to say there were plenty of Christians living in New Orleans when that hurricane struck. You are just unlucky if you happen to be in the way.
God doesn't create natural disasters to harm us... these are natural occurrences in the weather or geology of the Earth, and would occur whether we were here on Earth or not... and if we believed in God or not.
2006-09-27 00:57:00 · answer #8 · answered by Stephanie S 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 3 Surah Ale-Imraan verses 185-186:
141 Allah's object also is to purge those that are true in faith, and to deprive of blessing those that resist faith.
142 Did ye (O Believers) think that ye would enter heaven without Allah testing those of you who strove hard (in His cause) and remained steadfast?
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 2 Surah Baqarah verse 214:
214 Or do ye (O Believers) think that ye shall enter the Gardens (of Bliss) without such (trials) as came to those who passed away before you? They encountered suffering, and adversity, and were so shaken in spirit that even the Messenger and the believers who were with him, cried out: "When (will come) the help of Allah?" Ah! Verily the help of Allah is (always) near!
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 7.548 Narrated by Abu Huraira
The Messenger of Allah (saws) said, "If Allah wants to do good to somebody, He afflicts him with trials."
2006-09-27 01:05:47 · answer #9 · answered by justmyinput 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Earthquakes happen all over but some countries like USA prepare for them in advance. Tsunamis only occur after earthquakes and if people don't prepare they are going to get smacked down.
2006-09-27 00:56:38 · answer #10 · answered by taurus 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't see any relationship to (super)natural disasters and religion. Look at Katrina, Mt St. Helens, San Fransico '89, Tornado Alley.
2006-09-27 00:55:28 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋