God lets 250,000 innocent people die in a tsunami?

Question

Is he evil or just inept?

Answer 1

I think neither. It is nature. Just as the animals are victims of nature every day in the wild. I think that the fact that we are civilized & at the top of the food chain doesn't change the fact that we are all at the mercy of nature & the earth.

Answer 2

Why stop at the tsunami? God lets every person on the planet die at some point in their life. Dying is the cost of living, and there has never been a guarantee that you or anyone else will live to a ripe old age. Even if there was a guarantee, people would still complain that death has to happen at all. If they are, in fact, "innocent", then death is merely a passage into paradise. So where's the problem?

And you have created a false dichotomy with God being either evil or inept.

Answer 3

Is that the choice - evil or inept

1. DID he let it happen or make it happen
2. Was he watching
3. Do things happen without god pushing the button -
4. once it has started can he stop it - should he stop it
5. What should he do - whisk all the people up to the top of a mountain.
6. were they all innocent - are you sure not one of them was guilty of anything
7. they were going to die one day anyway - or do you think god shouldn't allow anybody to die?
8. Maybe he needed some recruits for a move on Satan or some help redecorating the newly refurbed halls of vallahala - or maybe with so many suicide bomber needing 72 handmaidens each the store was empty
9 . I don't like questions that are so loaded - you only get loaded answers.

Answer 4

Don't be stupid how can you blame God for that? there are a number of reasons that happened, it could have just been down to the earth getting old, or man messing up the world, but no we mustn't blame man must we.
Just open your eyes and take a good look at what damage man has down not just to the world but to each other, and then people like you blame God, why should God interfere with things, you would not admit to God helping, and you say about 250,000 dieing, what about the ones that were saved??

Answer 5

Was he evil or inept when he asked Noah to build the Ark while he planned First Degree Genocide on the entire world?

One way to look at it /=|

Or maybe he did it as a test to the rest of the world to see how far our apathy had become for those of a different race color and wealth - much how the Africa situation has become - The First World does nothing about it because technically speaking they are still receiving loan repayments from Africa; the ones that are keeping Africa in extreme poverty.

So it seems like a real red flag on the rest of the world, to me, that we would help so vigorously with the tsunami when even a fraction of the effort spent in that disaster would have done so much for Africa on any day of the week.

In my opinion, such things are an experiment to see how far we have fallen into decadence.

Answer 6

God didn't let anyone die. This was due to environmental conditions. God cannot intervene in everything that goes on in the world. We have to make our own lives. It is the human race which probably caused the tsunami as we are destroying the planet and causing all the freak weather conditions, so you see God had nothing to do with it.

Answer 7

Everyone is going to die. You are. I am. The Titanic we're on is a classroom for moral learning. These people died horribly, painfully, and disgustingly. But it makes you think not of your own mortality and accountability, but of an evil or wicked supreme power rolling us like dice in his hand... I have a hard time accepting a "God" , to me it's more a force, like the wind. If "he" or "it" lets things happen, it's for a much higher purpose than our puny little brains can formulate. Maybe a survivor's son or daughter is a world saver someday, maybe the cure for disease comes from a child that survived and used that experience, that trauma, to persevere because she overcame that day. My friend, I digress from all the Lord of the Rings God vs. Devil crap, it's mythology to me, but if it helps you get through the night that some slirky demon creature is tantalizingly getting more and more people to move or vacation at resort areas that get obliterated by a rogue wave, then all hail the great Satan, who seemingly has God's nuts till ???
I choose to look at it like there's many choices in life, don't choose the ones that leave you feeling like a sinner at the end...Cause waves happen...

Answer 8

He did not because the powers that be knew about the tsunami, and did not warn the people in Sri Lanka and I can prove it.
All you have to do is get in touch with (MEP)
Nirj Devi he is Sri Lanka born educated in England and he will prove. That the people who can tell when a tsunami is coming did not know who to phone. They knew for six hours before it happened, I heard Nirj Devi
talking about it on the radio not long after it happened. And he was angry he has a web page e-mail and ask him. It was not GODs fault, he gets the blame for everthing that goes wrong.

Answer 9

That's a good question. I understand the stance religious people take on the existence of war and the destructive power of people (free will and so on) but natural disasters are another thing entirely. Surely their God has complete control over nature and so the only conclusion is that he is exceptionally cruel and likes to see people suffer.

Answer 10

That's just it, man. No one is innocent. Everyone should expect God to wipe you out because everyone has sinned. Then your really grateful he gives you another day to live. At least that's the idea behind the whole deal, ya know?