For this blog post, I chose to write on an article in the New York Times entitled Between God and a hard place by James Wood. In this article, James research concluded that back in the 1700’s preachers and men of religious background felt that natural disasters happened because God was either punishing the people or he was just trying to get through to them. Also in recent events when Obama gave a speech about what happened in Haiti, he basically said that since God was on his side and he had luck was the reason why this disaster did not affect him.
Being a devout Christian myself, I believe that everything happens 1) because it is in God’s plan and 2) because everything happens for a reason. I also think that the preachers and so called Holy men of the 1700’ s were way off the target when they put together sermons preaching that this natural disaster was the people’s fault because of their actions. God does put his followers through hard times but that is just to make our faith in him stronger.
Also Pat Robertson was way off in his beliefs that this earth quake was a blessing to the Haitians. I think that it does give the people of Haiti a fresh start however you can not over look that this was a tragedy in itself and completely put the casualties on the back burner. You do have to focus on the good things when tragedy occurs, however, because if you keep dwelling on the bad, the people as a whole will get more and more depressed and they will never see a way out of it.
Finally on the speech Obama made, I think in some ways he was right but in others he was way off. God defiantly did have his hand over us but at the same time luck has nothing to do with it. Sure there are scientific theories and evidence that this happened just because of science, but luck still doesn’t have anything to do with that either.
That's all for now!
~Ali
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