Another religious leader, Rev. Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church, claims that God sent the earthquake to kill 2,000 Swedish tourists because their country prosecuted a fundamentalist preacher for preaching against homosexuality. That would be a lot of collateral damage for a kind, loving God; though I suppose for Rev. Phelps' God, it makes perfect sense.
On a different note, the Ayn Rand Institute says that the US should not help tsunami victims, because (a) taxation is theft, and (b) altruism is evil.
Um, the linked article at Ayn Rand doesn't seem to mention the tsunami?
They seem to have moved it, or removed it.
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Mon Jan 3 22:39:46 2005
What remains scariest to me is when people start (collectively) to rationalise their psychotic understanding. These examples, again, emphatically foreground that "modernity" never has arrived completely, and maybe never will. Of course, come to think of it, those who instrumentalise people such as those of the examples above, are probably even scarier. For quite a number of years now I have had a sneaking suspicion that killing all of them simply won't suffice. Hach vell, back to teaching them reading and writing and basic empathy in primary schools eh ?