Why does God allow natural disasters?

I thought we all blamed gordon Brown for it

natural disasters. maintaining the natural balance within this illusory existence we call reality. it is a reflection of humanity's despair when they increase - hence i expect them to increase in number. by discussing disasters, airing hundreds of movies etc on the subject we are subconsicously encouraging this reality to unfold. but the subliminal suggestion of possibility is all that is needed - and these subliminals are found in all words images .. everywhere.

:p

cue "walof"

Jimbo747, I'm amazed they have not used the obvious....."He took his eye off the ball" ....................... cue Wenger

I saw that programme the other week about the Boxing Day Tsunami.
They quoted someone that said that gods way is to let man be man,allowing man to do what is natural to him.
God also allows tectonic plated to be tectonic plates,allowing them
to move and cause earthquakes.
It is an intersting point of view.

Don message for you on financials.

If God is in the heavens
How can this happen here?
In his name, they used the weapons
For the massacre

There is no god,get real.

i refer you to tony brokes thread. i have challenged his view about god.

religion is dogma. so is science.

If God is willing to prevent evil, but not able, then he is not omnipotent.
If He is able, but not willing, then he is malevolent.
If He is both able and willing, then whence cometh evil?
If He is neither able nor willing, then why call Him God?

-Epicurus, 341 BC, Athens

theres just been a quake in the cayman islands apparently. 15 mins ago.

good/evil is ultimately the same thing.

Because he was told that Stephen Baldwin was going to be on Haitian BB....

terrible as it is, natural disasters are only mainly disasters to us because we have built homes etc in that area. if same happened in middle of desert or miles from anyone not a lot would happen

This is one perspective which I read yesterday while browsing about the KLF

In 2002, Bill Drummond was involved in a controversial exhibition at the St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Liverpool. Drummond contributed a guestbook which asked visitors "Is God a '('C-word)?".Drummond himself said that he would answer "no" to his own question: "God is responsible for all the things I love, the speckles on a brown trout; the sound of Angus Young's guitar, the nape of my girlfriend's neck, the song of the blackcap when he returns in Spring. I never blame God for all the shyte, for the baby Rwandan slaughtered in a casual genocide, the ever-present wars, drudgery and misery that fills most of our lives."