We again witness a disaster, in 2004, a terrified look in the Indian Ocean tsunami, after Haiti and Chile fell prey to an earthquake in February it fell to New Zealand, in March was the turn of China and now Japan.
The latter is one of the most educated of the world in this type of disaster, the design of its buildings, its people and its authorities Japan make society better prepared to face the catastrophic geologic However, the earthquake and tsunami were so violent that virtually wipe out entire coastal villages northeastern Honshu, the main island.
We've been terrified to see a dark wall of water and mud he was carrying, cars, houses, farms, boats and all things that you put in front of the television and the internet reported minute by minute what was happening, and sometimes saw frightened as vehicles trying to escape, obviously driven by a person, were made by the waves and disappeared in the rubble. Yet
dimension the magnitude of the catastrophe, which could complicate to levels never before imagined, especially the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima plant have been seriously affected by the earthquake, have so far Several explosions occurred in the reactor which have prompted the government to enact a total evacuation around the plant.
The initial fear followed a global alarm when international agencies warned of the possibility that the tsunami reached all the Pacific coast of the Americas and some Pacific islands, apparently only Ecuador, Chile and Hawaii had an increase in the level sea \u200b\u200bwhich damaged some structures on the beach, but people across the continent was alarmed.
On Friday, the tsunami was the theme of the day, the views of SNET (National Service of Territorial Studies) was the least, people started calling radio stations, religious views were the most, including psalms were read on the air, one of those an evangelical pastor said that the citizens of El Salvador should be quiet because it is proven that prayer has a direct power over natural events. Facebook profiles and publications Twitter invited to fasting and prayer for the tsunami did not affect us, and pray for the unfortunate way Japanese are suffering. Whether
whatever reason, the natural way to our shores, or Central America took the position in relation to the wave front, we do not hit this tsunami, and others will come, and have occurred in the past (there was one in 1902), sooner or later be our turn. For all who live in the Ring of Fire, we know one day we will reach the disaster in the form of earthquakes, as happened to Mexico in 1985 to El Salvador in 1986 and 2001, Nicaragua in 1972, among others, is as be with the head in a guillotine.
other hand, what happened in Japan (and the examples above) is an affront to religious considerations where a particular deity has a personal relationship with mortals, let alone in other words, that God * cares, why now people ask, "Where is God when a wall of debris has been on cities killing women, men, children, girls, dogs, cats, birds, any animal, ripping trees from the root?, get dizzy feeling alone with nature that has no feelings, which has its own dynamics and does not understand our problems, dreams and fears.
course, religious, whether priests or pastors have an answer, some are not complicated saying that God's ways are mysterious and there is no way that you understand their strange decisions also be wondering who we are not divine motives to kill so many people. Instead
other religious indicate that within the misfortune there is room to see the face of God and his infinite wisdom and love she has for this breed of monkeys hairless, or us, for he created us with the sole purpose of praise. Everyone handles
religiosity with which you feel most comfortable, religion has a legitimizing function and social cohesion, provide a certain "sense" of the welter of events around us. As said Emile Durkheim, religion is a "collective emotional state" that played between oppositions, between the individual (profane) and society (sacred), the deities are just a reflection of society itself "and conceived symbolically transfigured" (Lucien Lévy-Bruhl) and by this we mean to nature. So the slaughter
not only destroy buildings and kill people, but also shake religiosity, because deep down, inside each of our shared Judeo-Christian view of providence doubt creeps, though did not want to see, and suffocate between rituals, songs, reading and deny the tooth to the lip, sooner or later appear. It certainly is critical because the terminal to the religious mentality, the eats, the undermining and if not controlled or denied can destroy personal conviction that we call faith. Because
see, is an objective fact is that people who are trapped on the roofs of buildings in Japan and are surrounded by water were rescued by helicopter using a huge steel cable or nylon, not a winged angel sent by a deity. But had helicopter, people will undoubtedly die, so action is required supportive human being rescued. If we maintain a mythological profile must begin to think that the helicopter and the rescuer is somehow a metaphor for an angel, but those are interpretations and the end to a devastating reality.
In any case, every head is different, some are better off not thinking, as these events leave us a feeling of emptiness, to learn that either way, some are realizing that we are at bottom haphazard,
or rather, simply to good.
* The use of tiny is on purpose.
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