Ranting

So, I'm looking at some comments after news reports here and there regarding the Japanese earthquake and there are more than a few people who use this disaster to proclaim that it's useless to pray and it proves there's no God. Which is pretty damn heartless, in my humble opinion. If someone's response to this horrible disaster is to pray, then let them if it gives them comfort and gives others comfort. I do not see the point of stripping people of what hope and comfort they can find when facing real horrors just because you don't believe the same as they do. If it gives them hope and if it helps them survive, then as far as I am concerned, let them believe what they want.

This also goes for people who are blaming the Japanese people for this disaster because of whatever so-called environmental "sins" they might have committed. That's no better than some fundamentalist blaming gays for hurricane Katrina.  Heartless? Yeah.

Drop the politics, people. Take up a donation instead and start helping. And praying, if that's your tradition (it's mine, by the way). It can't hurt to extend caring and benevolent feelings toward others.

Natural disasters happen. No one is to blame. They just happen. When disasters occur, the best response is to give comfort and aid in whatever way you can.

End of rant.