I felt Schadenfreude when I first heard of the earthquake in Japan because Parents and I had been watching Chinese WWII videos, but the second I saw the horrors on TV, I knew nobody deserved this. It's beyond me why people turn to religions in times of desperation, were people punished for making a pack with the Devil as Pat Robertson said about the Haiti earthquake? Even the governor of Tokyo is saying something similar that Japanese are punished by Heaven for being greedy.
Regardless of how severe are the punishments, Haiti is not going to return to French rule, Japanese are not going stop being greedy, the wrath of God is totally wasted on us. If you look at the numbers, the Haiti earthquake at magnitude 7.0, which is 100 times weaker than the one in Japan at 9.0, killed 200,000 people because they were caught unprepared. When a whole village got washed out, I imagine infants and babies are at risk and it's unlikely they are more sinful than the rest of us. It's obvious that goodness or faith doesn't matter, it's the readiness and the sound infrastructure of Japan that saved thousands of lives. Our Towers of Babel may be humble compared to Nature, but it's the only thing that makes a difference, any difference.
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