“The clerics who are struggling to make sense of the tsunami must not have noticed that this is hardly the first display of God’s penchant for wanton, homicidal mischief. Leaving out man-made genocide, war, and even those “natural” disasters, like drought, and famine, to which “man” invariably contributes through his inept social arrangements, God has a lot to account for in the way of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, and plagues.” Barbara Ehrenreich in the Progressive magazine, March, 2005.
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