Dear "Reason for Earthquake is God" idiots.

Let me start this post by offering you a quick f**k you to to anyone who asserts that their chosen deitiy has been responsible for any natural disasters.  So let me repeat f**k you.

Whenever a natural disaster occurs, we wait for the usual religious zelots to pipe up with:

"The reason for this <Insert Disaster> is because of this <Group I Choose To Oppress>"

The oppressed groups usually include:

  • Atheists
  • The LGBT Community
  • Divorces
  • Women wearing revealing clothes
  • Anything non-white and non heterosexual.

So  after the awful happenings in Japan over the past week I sat with bated breath.  And on the whole none of the usual suspects have been making the usual claims.  Progress.  Perhaps we are progressing, or perhaps the zelots haven't crossed my news feed yet.

And then ... this...  This lady is thanking God for the disaster and the deaths of thousands of people.  Some may associate her with being extreme, immature, or needing of psychiatric treatment, but unfortunately her exclamations are fully justififed by her chosen religious text.  Luckily for her she is white and has chosen the correct religion, so she gets to make exclamations like this without fear of reprocussion.  Imagine a muslim man making the same exclamation about Katrina and I think we might see a different kind of reaction.