Tsunami: Please Explain God's Wrathful Intent

I Christianity was a religion that did not promise an afterlife, or, better yet, promised a afterlife of toil and suffering, would there be many followers?If there wasn't a promise of reward or avoidance of punishment at the end of life, would there be as many believers?

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Yup, it was a very transient canvas for his signature, but isn't it all the more amazing because of it? Allah could have signed his name more permanently in a new sandbar created by the waves, or in a pile of rubble, but instead he signed the actual wave itself AND ensured a satellite/plane took a picture of it at that one and only moment, before it vanished forever.

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Fascinating.

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Yeah, it's a lot like the grilled cheese sandwich with the virgin mary on it.Or the tortilla.Or the face on mars.This message has been edited by schrafinator, 01-11-2005 22:35 AM

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Many skeptics of Biblical Christianity despise the implication that God, IF He exists, is so concerned with the wills of the humans on this dustspeck in His glorious and very large Universe.

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Actually, "despise" implies a great deal more interest and concern than is accurate.Most skeptics of Biblical Christianity are not particularly emotionally involved enough to "despise" it.