Prager on the Tsunami & God

Dennis Prager did an hour on the tsunami and God today; unfortunately I only caught the last two minutes. Fortunately, even that was thought provoking.

First, he said that people who don't believe in God because they can't believe in a God who allows bad things happen have to ask themselves why good things happen. Why is there music? Why is there love?

There is love, and I love the way Prager uses the simple fundamentals of logic to turn seemingly difficult questions on their heads. For we believers, his question is so simplistic that it can be answered in just three letters: God. But how do non-believers answer the question, "How can I not believe in a God that allows Mozart, narrow escapes, second chances and love at first sight to happen?"

Second, he asked us to consider if there were no natural disasters; no hurricanes, no floods, no tsunami. He thought people would then decide they couldn't believe in a God who allowed, paraphrasing here, headcolds, hangnails or bad hair days.

Because committed non-believers must build walls between themselves and God -- to keep their sin life alive, to hold onto their shame or anger, to refuse to bend their knee to anyone but themselves -- then, yes, a hangnail would be enough to keep one of these people from a loving holy Father.

I'll be checking on Town Hall to see if this subject inspired Dennis enough that he writes a column on it. I hope so.