The Japanese did murder 10,000,000 people during WW2. Just sayin'.
Anyone here believe that God hates Nazis?
I won't pretend to know what's on God's mind or why He does what He does, but it is difficult to rationalize that a god of mercy would be so vendictive as to bring down retribution upon a people for their transgressions some 66 yrs later. If that's the case, America is screwed!!!
More to the point, what message was He sending for the hundreds who lost their lives from Hurricane Katrina? Or the people of Pompeii who died when Mount Vesuvious erupted? The people of Haiti? What were their crimes against humanity?
Pointing to man-made disasters, was 9/11 part of God's master plan to pay America back for its trangressions against the Arab world?
We can play this "holier than thou - spiritual walker" guessing game until the cows come home and never get an answer because quite frankly man can never know the truth as to why natural disaster happen. We can learn what causes a tornado or a hurricane to form or why the Earth tectonic plates shift, but we'll never know why they shift when they shift, why a tornado or hurricane forms and strikes precisely where it strikes as opposed to disappating or landing elsewhere.
The Earth is constantly in a state of flux. It's always moving beneath our feet in subtle ways. Earthquakes are the end result of our planet shifting, growing, changing, evoluving. To interject the climate change argument for a moment, I do believe in it. I just don't believe man is having that big of an impact on it. It's a naturally occuring event, nothing more, nothing less. Man may contribute to it, but I seriously doubt there's anything we can do to change it or stop it no more than man could have predicted that this earthquake would hit in Japan and cause so much damage and loss of life. It just happened and will happen again in other parts of the world just as unexpectedly, as unpredictable as this one.
But I don't think God sits up there (wherever He is) and thinks to Himself, "Hmmmm....I think I'll cause some devastation with the slant-eyed ones today...pay them back for all those allied forces they tortured and killed during the last world war. That oughta teach them a lesson."