Why God brought us Hurricane Rita

[PanTheMan]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I was thinking about this god-vengeance thing, and I really don't understand it at all. If one looks at the Biblical Sodom and Gommorah story (whether one believes it was done by God or not, there is a lot of very interesting acheological evidence of two cities completely destroyed by fire and never reinhabited, but that's another story), when God goes about destroying something, he doesn't mess around.

However, archiologists have argued that Sodom and Gommorah might be a "Which came first? The Chicken or the Egg" Story.

Back when the story was put into the Bible, EVERYTHING was by the hand of God. If you got a rash on your butt, you were being punished for something.
So the Story of an entire city being leveled and burning to the ground, would surely have been quite the story for a long time. The fact that the area is prone to Quakes and most innner city strutures would have been clay brick and wood, one good shake and the whole city would have been leveled and burned in the aftermath. Stories being what they are grow to legend etc, and thus you get the story of 2 cities being flattened, at the hand of God.

But, who knows. I do believe in God, and sometimes the "Sh*t Happens" argument just cant be explained.