Tsunami: Please Explain God's Wrathful Intent

The similarity is, er, striking. Explain that away you infidel.

You guys will never be convinced.

However, if you move outside the box of the purely natural and try to superimpose yourself in the situation from a Biblical perspective, the events become explainable by the concept of sin.

1914 CE - Probably the single most important and hyped-to-hades date in the history of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, 1914 became the target for Charles T. Russell’s Armageddon almost immediately after the 1881 date went up in smoke...or rather, didn’t. Dropping pyramidology like a big, chiseled rock, Charlie fell back on the old End-Timer’s standby; He picked out odd quotes from the Book of Daniel, assigned them random numerical values, totaled them up and spat them back out again as the definitive date for the Big Good-bye. It was during this period that the JW’s really got themselves organized and their shiny, new Doomsdate helped them to win over oodles of followers.Probably the single best advertisement the sect ever got was the outbreak of World War I. Truly, nothing cheers the heart of an apocalypse fan more than hearing that millions of their fellow human beings are about to be slaughtered like pigs in an abattoir, and the JWs were simply twirling in ecstasy at the news. Unfortunately, 1914 insisted on turning over into 1915, then 1916, etc. Still, the war was coming along swimmingly. The death rate was just (if you’ll excuse the expression) rapturously high, and the atrocities, what with the trenches and the mustard gas and the attacks on civilians and all, were very nearly Biblical. Fortified by all this devastation, Charlie Russell gave one last try for a definitive cosmic kaboom.1918 CE - It was a date poor Charlie Russell never did get to see. Despite his bolted-to-the-baseboard belief that he would never, ever die,...die he most certainly did on October 31, (Halloween! Another holiday the JWs don’t celebrate) 1916. Before he went the way of all things, though, Charlie reset his apocalypse clock for 1918 and his followers dutifully fell in behind the re-drawn line. Hard as Charlie’s supposedly impossible death hit them, the reality of the times gave the flock reason to hold out hope.Besides the protracted nightmare of the war, 1917 also brought the Spanish Flu, a hideous disease that seemed to have come out of nowhere and perversely struck down those who were the most strong and vital. As the pandemic tore its fatal swath across the globe, killing some 30,000,000 people, the JWs took heart. It seemed they had good reason. I mean,...did all that calamity look like the signature blood-drenched, poxied hand of God, or what? Yet, before 1917 ran out, the flu ran its course and disappeared, and the only thing that came to an end in 1918 was the war. As the rest of the world celebrated the new peace, these became dark days indeed for the Doomsday deprived Witnesses...