I was just hitting the ye old 'next blog' button and I came upon a young "btrflywings.blogger.com". I know that as an educated woman I shouldn't be angry because someone has an opinion different, no no-radically different from my own...because that's how progress is made, through a give and take of opposing views. And I am calming myself down with that thought, BUT...(you knew there was a but coming, right?) This is what I read:
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
tsunami*

its starting again.

killer waves sweeps (if you noticed) non-christian nations.

i think its God's way of telling us that he's not happy - there's just too much sin in the world.

i really thank God my dad and his family is home in one piece - they were in penang for the weekend and i'm really glad my sis and i decided not to go in the end.

my dad said he saw a smaller wave come in while out jet-skiing with my bro and people at the shore were calling them to come back right away.

then the bigger wave came in.

i really really thank God my parents are safe and that i express my heartfelt condolences to victims of the earthquake measuring 9.0 on the ritcher scale.

death toll? right now its standing at 39,000.

How can you express "heartfelt condolences" to people after you've suggested that the reason why their loved ones died is because they were godless heathens? This is why I'm completely against organized religion-(this is where I need to change that statement as made clear to me from a very wise comment from JHM). I'm not against organized religion because for many this is their belief system and I'm sorry I made that stupid statement. I'm against stupid people who use their God as a crutch to unleash their ideas of moral superiority and divine right upon the Earth. The ideas of love, compassion, neighborliness (not a word but you know what I mean) go by the wayside and it becomes more of,"My God is better than yours." No wonder our world is fucked up. Sorry about the tirade but it angers me.