Selasa, 01 Desember 2009

[bali-bali] Response to Tifatul Sembiring's morality-to-disaster correlation



Ini bahkan masuk ke BBC news:

Indonesian Minister says immorality causes disaster

A government minister has blamed Indonesia's recent string of natural disasters on people's immorality.

Here's what I have to say to that:

Do We Really Cause Earthquakes?

It wouldn't take long for a relatively reasonable person to point out that Indonesia has arguably become more religiously conservative than in the past, or that in the last few years some of the deadliest earthquakes occurred in religiously pious areas, like the 2003 earthquake in the Iranian city of Bam and the 2004 big one off the coast of Aceh, while "places of sin and immorality" like Las Vegas, the island of Ibiza, and even Jakarta, have been spared from any major natural catastrophe.  So either we've been misrepresenting God's warnings, or—here's a crazy idea—we're not the reason the earth's crust trembles.





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