October 29, 2007
Acts
Nothing makes an insurance company get religion any faster than a hurricane or a fire. When all those claims for all that property start coming in, all those resident theologians start coming out. And suddenly there is proclaimed that, premiums or no, your policy holders certainly can’t be held responsible for what clearly are Acts of God. And to hear them tell it, Acts of God are far more prolific, inclusive, and handy, if a bit less constructive, than they were during the first week of Genesis, chapter one or two, take your choice.
Trouble is that all this freedom we claim we’ve got from God along with the stewardship it implies has got a lot of scientifically well-informed people thinking otherwise. Suddenly, it’s altogether possible that we, not God, are behind the wind and the fire. We’ve browned the woods and warmed the seas and “paved” the way for chaos. Our faith-based leaders, as certain as they seem to be that we have absolutely nothing to do with all this and as religious as they claim to be, are all the sudden torn between their altars, the one before God, the other before their benefactors, aka, the corporate welfare crowd. Is all this an act of God or an act of us human beans? Who can we blame now?
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