THEOLOGY:

…In other words, what did those horrible people do to deserve the hurricane that God dropped on them? I’ve known too many good people who have suffered terrible things (look at the martyrs!), and too many rotten people who’ve sailed through life fairly unscathed, to believe that God metes out sure rewards and punishments in this life. That’s what heaven, hell, and purgatory are for. Rather, I agree with Jesus Christ that God sends rain upon the just and the unjust alike. People who sit around talking about divine punishment during natural disasters are like the ones who saw the blind man sitting in the street and asked Christ whether he was blind because of his own sins, or because of the sins of his parents. Neither, according to Christ.

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Of which a shorter version here. (That link doesn’t go where you might expect.)