Not one person has explained how or why so many people could die beneath god's gaze. Anyone that has been in a position of seeing someone hurt or dying in front of them, knows the overwhelming, potent feelings of wanting to do everything in your power to save them. That makes humble humans the moral superior over the god of the bible, who not only turns his head away from disaster, but caused so many in the biblical accounts. Of course, to atheists this reaffirms his non existence, though it was a spanner in the works for me, long ago when i used to be a christian. I was a 'christian' when it happened and I did not dare try to explain away so many dead innocent people, with ignorance and bias. No doubt it is still a huge spanner for christians still who insist he listens to THEIR prayers, helped get a cheap car , helped pay for shopping last week, sent a tax rebate at the right time, 'answered prayers' about a third cousins tumor.
Why would god hear any ONE of the insignificant prayers yet watch hundreds of thousands of people simply die. Nobody here denies those people would have been petitioning him more than ever in their lives, good people. But he simply ignores them. With his alleged powers, I could not inore them, could you? Why ignore them? Due to some convoluted greater goal of 'sanctifying his name'? A cause long ago lost once the old testament and the atrocities within it were written!
the answer:
Planet earth has inevitible disasters because of how it was formed and how it functions. It is a very perilous planet evident by the several mass extinctions of all but few life in its history. The dangerous points of the earth are points where nature flourishes due to them being sources of fresh water, good soil and vegetation. There is no evidence for a god at all and such events reaffirm this.
That is the very simple answer.
Most christians dont like the idea of god being so shoddy in his earth designs, but that is your battle not ours. Some blame human causes! But the worst earthquake was centuries ago around 1550 near China. killing more people than any natural disaster in history, over 800,000. No bombs, no nukes, no 'end of times', no human interference.... Just how our planet functions.
Simple.
