It’s not God’s will any more *UPDATED*

It’s an old-fashioned concept: Some horrible disaster happens, and the victims (or the observers) ponder it, and then pronounce, “It’s God’s will.”

Nobody would say that now, right? We’re rational, scientifically oriented creatures who search for meaning in everything/ We would never shrug and, Job-like, admit that meaning can elude us and that God can simply do what God does.

Or do we? How about an angry Gaia? Maybe it’s her will. Certainly, when I read stories such as this, where everything from a truly tragic Boy Scouts’ camping trip in one part of the country, to drought in another, to hangnails in a third — all of which tragedies have happened before — is suddenly attributable to Global Warming, I suspect that the old notion of “God’s will” has a new substitute: “It’s angry Gaia’s rebellion against man.”

I’d rather have God than angry Gaia as my belief system. God has a moral system attached to him. Angry Gaia is just raw vengeance that will be sated only by the destruction of modern civilization.

UPDATE:  If you needs some un-Gaia common sense, read this.