I love this response. You should turn it into an article. That’s what I do.
I not altogether infrequently end up turning ‘offline’ chats with Forrest the Great into full posts — they’re inspiring and I have to share them with the World:
I do actually address the issue of Morality in a surprising number of the thing I write and I’ve already done so on numerous occasions in the Past … not least here:
And, of course, most recently in the piece that started this particular thread.
But I’m not particularly inclined to explore it in any greater depth as a post right now and it’s more likely to arise as the result of a discussion like this one, where I end up saying/reading something that I’m motivated to elaborate upon in greater depth/detail as a result — my writing about certain topics tends to be ‘applied’ rather than theoretical.
Legally, they are acts of God, that is, without human causation. A more naturalistic way to say is would be that they are acts of nature or natural occurrences.
I think it would be best if we stopped calling them such, yes.
As much as anything else, I don’t understand why people who profess to themselves love an all-loving god would keep blaming him/her/it for everything negative in the World — it makes no sense whatsoever and the cognitive dissonance makes my brain hurt.
