People today assume that a 'religious' view of life must address 'the problem of evil', the toughest part of which is so-called 'natural evil'. Evil isn't as bad as it seems, say some; or it's all someone's fault (or, with natural evil, Satan's fault); or it offers a chance for greater moral virtue (courage, and so on). One major tsunami does to theories like that what it does to buildings and people: it crushes them to matchwood.
This reminds me of Greg Boyd's discussion of the problem of evil in God at War. Our theories and explanations work well as long as evil is abstract. As soon as we wrestle with concrete evil it's a whole new ball game.
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