Did God Cause The Earthquake In Japan?
This is one of the most fascinating things I have seen on the internet about the devastating seismological events which just occurred in Japan. It starts slow but stay with it . . . http://www.japanquakemap.com/
I have also run across some idiotic comments to the effect that the quake was the heavy finger of God pushing our buttons down here on Earth. That he is sending us a message about our misuse of the planet, that he is fed up with all of the sinning going on down here, that he is punishing the Japanese (for what? making great automobiles? being Buddhists?).
Hey! Maybe they’re right!
Maybe His patience has run out. Maybe He has had it up to his God eyebrows, so He is putting us on notice . . . “Clean up your act down there, or you ain’t seen nothing yet!”
Humans have certainly mucked things up over the years. Wars, genocide, plunder, destruction, reality TV shows. Okay, we had done some good constructive things too. But then it seemed like we are always turning around and tearing down what we have painstakingly built, or at least what someone else has built, killing off a few million along the way.
So maybe God feels the need to teach us a lesson every now and then. Remind us of exactly Who is in charge. Just scare the bejesus out of us. That would explain the rumors hovering around all the time that the world is about to end. A little bogeyman-under-the-bed psychology from the Big Guy in the sky?
But hold on a minute.
This can’t be right.
Really stopping to think about it ___ stepping back and getting some perspective ___ how could anyone actually believe that God gave a flying fuck about what goes on around here?
If the Universe is as big as astronomers and astrophysicists claim, this little wet chunk of dirt in our solar system which we call Earth ___ but which He may not even have a name for ___ is one billionth of a trillionth of a quadrillionth of a gazillionth of the whole shebang.
It would be like us obsessing over a piece of lint at the bottom of the ocean.
Yes, if God is indeed God, the Guy thinks big. Really big! He certainly is not some sniveling micro-manager. What we mere humans do here on Earth wouldn’t even come up on his radar screen. We’re more like microbes clinging to a worthless piece of space rock ___ regardless of how many prayers we say, how many candles we burn, how many hymns we sing, how many services we conduct, how many churches and cathedrals we erect in His honor and to His greater glory.
There is only one conclusion . . .
God probably doesn’t even know about the 9.0 that devastated Japan.
Unless, of course, He watches CNN.
Do they get cable in Heaven?
[ The above comments about God are excerpted from my full-length novel 11-11-11, coming out June 1st, published by Melange Books. ]
