{"id":1071,"date":"2013-11-13T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T09:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/11\/where-was-god-in-the-philippines.html"},"modified":"2013-11-13T09:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T09:14:00","slug":"where-was-god-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/11\/where-was-god-in-the-philippines.html","title":{"rendered":"Where was God in the Philippines?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
The disasters are always different and often devastating.\u00a0But the questions they raise are hauntingly familiar.\u00a0In the days since<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Super Typhoon Haiyan swept<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>through the Philippines on Thursday, survivors are frantically searching for lost family members and international aid groups are springing into action.\u00a0<\/span>Officials say the death toll may rise to 10,000 in the heavily Catholic country. Meanwhile, many people are asking:\u00a0How should we make sense of such senseless death and destruction?\u00a0Was God in the whirlwind itself, as the Bible hints, or present only in the aftermath, as people mobilize to provide food, water and shelter?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
These questions may not be new, but we keep asking them, perhaps because the answers remain so elusive.\u00a0For many Americans, a paradox sits at the heart of their thinking about natural disasters. According to a survey taken after 2011\u2019s earthquake and tsunami in Japan, most Americans (56%) believe that God is control of everything.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
But more Americans blame hurricanes, earthquakes and other storms on global warming (58%) than on an angry and punishing deity (38%), according to a 2011 poll by the Public Religion Research Institute.\u00a0<\/span>\u201cThese kind of questions about God being in control and there simultaneously being suffering are the kind of things that keep seminarians up at night,\u201d institute CEO Robert P. Jones said in 2011.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re thorny theological issues.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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