Build a temple for the Red Cross

Folks,

This morning I heard a prayer. It went like this.

"Dear god, bless the victims of the recent tsunami in Indonesia, who lost their loved ones and belongings. Bring them comfort and hope that comes from knowing you. Bless the tsunami early warning system, which might ensure a reduction in future death tolls"

These guys just don't get it.

Why doesn't someone ask them these questions:

Why the hell did this "god" create that tsunami?

What the fuck does "god" know about tsunami early warning systems?!

Can anyone come up with a reasonable answer that also reconciles god's "goodness"?

What, god decided to do some interior designing and change the decor in JAva a little bit? That fucking island has been hit by two tsunamis, earthquakes and a fucking volcano within two years. A fucking trifecta of death if there ever was one. All it needs is a bloody meteorite and it would just sink into the damned Indian Ocean. What the fuck was this "god" of theirs doing?

Maybe this "god" doesn't exist. Maybe this god doesn't give a shit. HEll, maybe god was sick of so many people fucking up the planet that he went postal on some poor schmucks who just probably happened to piss him off extra that day.

Why the hell are we looking for anything but abuse from "god"? We build huge altars and places of worship for a being that can't even cure a fucking toothache. Fuck that. Let's get together and congratulate and worship the brave souls who went in there time and again after god's aborted little hissy-fits to clean up. Let us build temples for the fearless men and women who saved countless lives without counting the cost. It would be a much more worthwhile endeavour than building some altar for an imaginary creature with a strange blood-lust.

Let us support the engineers who come up with better warning systems, who are sick of trusting god with as much as a headache cure, much less a mammoth endeavour like an Indo-Pacific tsunami early warning system.

We need hands that help, not mouths that pray.

Human progress is only possible when we rely less on godly pipe-dreams and more on our own efforts and ingenuity.