Post tagged with earthquake

  • Does God punish people through natural disasters?

    October 05th, 201110:48 PM ET
    By Randal Rauser
    By some counts more than three hundred thousand people were killed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake while an additional three hundred thousand were injured and one million rendered homeless. The scale of human suffering is truly unimaginable. And then, even as people were still struggling for their next breath while buried in ten tonnes of concrete, a...

  • How Haiti's earthquake has shaken us all

    January 26th, 201001:49 PM ET
    By Randal Rauser
    The horror of major disasters like the recent Haiti earthquake are best viewed from the air, or through the safe distance of an endless catalogue of mind-numbing statistics. As of today, Tuesday January 26, estimates are perhaps 200,000 dead, 250,000 injured, and 1.5 million homeless. The numbers simply transcend our ability to calculate the m...

  • How dare religious zealots blame Haiti for its misery

    January 18th, 201011:58 AM ET
    By Randal Rauser
    I took upon myself a most modest task. Critique the monstrous claim of Pat Robertson that the terrible earthquake that has decimated Haiti was a result of God's providential judgment on the nation. Apparently Robertson has more support among conservative Christians than I had wanted to believe. Four of the respondents in the thread came out actuall...

  • Is God behind the earthquake in Haiti?

    January 14th, 201010:50 PM ET
    By Randal Rauser
    I will not soon forget the image on the news last night. Arms desperately waving for help from between huge chunks of concrete. I thought with a shudder about the people inside, trapped, covered by several tons of rubble. How many would be saved, and how many more would die? Then as the world stood on in shocked horror, along came Pat Robertson an...
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