Acts Of God

The rain falls and it falls on everyone, no matter what we do or how we live our lives. Tragedy too is arbitrary, showing that so-called ‘acts of god’ are nothing of the sort. The good as well as the bad, the innocent as well as the guilty are smitten as indiscriminately as the religious and non-religious, the old as well as those too young to have ever sinned against such a god.

This should be obvious enough, but there is something in the believers’ mindset, or – more probably – the lack of something in the mindset of believers that makes them either ignore such contradictions or fabricate elaborate explanations for such evidence that contradicts or shows up their belief for the absurdities it contains.

They are always making up excuses and rationalisations for any set of circumstances that questions their concept of a god involved in human affairs and controlling the world and yet the obvious answer – that no such being exists - is the one they seemingly and wilfully refuse to countenance.