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Article: Disaster Ignites Debate: 'Was God In the Tsunami?'.(TheFrontPage)
- Article from:
- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- January 10, 2005
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Byline: Ron Rosenbaum
"Was God in the Tsunami?" I woke up to that question in my Yahoo inbox four days after the waves struck, a posting from Beliefnet, a popular discussion list I subscribe to. It was the morning when the death-toll estimates had gone into six figures for the first time. It would be interesting to calculate the number of deaths from a catastrophe that trigger the moment when people start asking "Where was God?" questions. But it seemed to me that morning marked the beginning. It was a week that would end with the Archbishop of Canterbury himself declaring that he had doubts about God.
As surely as the tsunami followed the earthquake, ...
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