The tsunami does raise a problem for my world view, especially because I am NOT a Biblical theist.
I am grateful for this forum--it allows for discussion. But it is obvious to me who am sickened at the tortured death of people in the tsunami that we are locked onto the computation of certain ideas of a biblical god's culpability to such a point that we can't move far past it. We are not able in this thread to ask ourselves if saving people is solely on a god and not on us.
If we fail to pass along the knowledge we have to live safely and protect others, that is HIS fault?. Those who died lacked--through no fault of their own--knowledge so basic that stone-age men possessed it for eons.
It is interesting to note that the islanders drive civilized humans away from their land with bows and arrows. Apparently they are content to deal with their ruthless sea-god on their own terms--and live.
Edit: Hello, tec! It is a wild ride to freedom. I am glad you recognize that I am not an atheist but as I mentioned before, not a biblical theist. I am more in the way of looking at the wild representation of the Job-god. Not even a reflection of the Hebrew god. Kinda strange. That Job story has a tacted on beginning and end, imo. But that is quite a bit what we all do to our natural observations. (Still love the Carpenter)
We fuss about a loving god --and die--scolding each other along the way.
It bothers my world view.