Half the population of Haiti practices voodoo, and that might give us pause to think there might be something to this thought that God has had enough of them and their awful pagan ways. But then, how different are they from us, really? I mean, Haiti’s majority identity is foundationally Christian, but U.S. statistics run almost neck-and-neck with Haiti in the way our people maintain a sort of Christian-by-default citizenry, but then practice religion that is very syncretistic with whatever spiritual views seem popular at the time.
When Katrina hit New Orleans, the fact that it was our nation’s murder capital made people wonder about the God question.
When the San Fernando Valley suffered some memorable quakes, it wasn’t long before its “porn capital of the country” moniker entered into the divine wrath discussion. We can only look upon the dark side with our heads shaking, but we can never know with any certainty whether God supernaturally intervened with a heavy hand, or if he simply allowed us to live as we always do, without him and suffer whatever naturally comes our way.
