A Great Human Tragedy

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It's just too much to comprehend.

The Haiyan typhoon that struck in the Philippine city of Tacloban has a death toll of at least 10,000.

Ten thousand human beings hanging from trees, buried in rubble, and basically unaccounted for.

It's incomprehensible.

What's left is just a pile of debris for the people who survived. They're running through the streets, searching for loved ones, looking for food, trying to find just something that will allow them to live another day.

I can't even imagine.

The winds hit about 147 MPH. The waters rose high, slamming and destroying whatever was in the path.

And at these times you'll hear about people questioning God.

Even blaming Him.

Pat Robertson or one of those goofy bastards who preach to take money from the desperate will blame it on the gays, or bad living by the people who live here. They will signal it as the end of times.

And there are moments when you have to shake your head in wonder.

Why?

I have a belief that there is a great struggle between good and evil. A video game of sorts between the all-powerful.

And that sometimes evil wins.

And what is righteous suffers and takes a hit.

That's the way I look at it.

God is saddened by it all.

I know.

I know.

That is simplistic and shortsighted, right?

But so is blaming the gays.

And the way I think about it, God is saddened.

You know how I know that to be true?

Because we are saddened.

And we are the little mini-mes that God put together for the purpose of helping one another here on the grounds where evil sometimes wins.

Despite our best efforts.

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