Tsunamis - Confronting this horror
In today's Age, the philosopher's view (a philosopher from the Australian Catholic University, actually).
The best line of argument that the Christian tradition has developed is that the suffering caused by natural events is not a means that God uses to achieve some good end - as if God were the Great Utilitarian - but, rather, is a necessary feature of our being bodily creatures capable of thought and compassion. We cannot enjoy the beach at Phuket without the kinds of bodies we have; but those bodies make us vulnerable when a tsunami strikes. We grieve over the death of our loved ones; but without that suffering there can be no compassion for those who mourn.
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