The gods must hate the U.S.

My father just informed me that a new hurricane is brewing with windspeeds up to 249mph north of New York. I checked with CNN.com and discovered that there was a new hurricane developing, though not at the speeds he reported — baredly about 75mph, and apparently only a danger to shipping interests as it’s expected that Hurricane Maria will turn north.

My father, ever the dissenter, remarked: “People can’t bomb America, so God does it for them”. This really, really annoyed me to no end. Firstly because it’s bloody mean to say something like that — and my dad actually sniggered — and secondly, because I don’t think it’s right to make natural events like these the fault of any deity or deities. It’s just sick.

I told him so, of course, but received a blank look; I’m supposed to hate American policies by default. I watched with horror when George Bush was re-elected, watched with horror when John Bolton was chosen to represent the U.S. in the UN, watched with horror when that neo-con Paul Wolfowitz was chosen to head the World Bank… but no one deserves the kind of death and destruction wreaked by Hurricane Katrina. No one.

And this was after I read this. My father needs to be going to church less often, is what I think.