Christians, why does god allow priests & nuns to die in natural disasters. Isn't this self-defeating behavior?

God makes the rain to fall on the righteous and the unrighteous alike.

Btw, everyone dies. Every ... single .... person.

Angry are we? Leave Las Vegas out of it , I have to admit since they got rid of the mob and corporations took over it hasn't been the same. Since I retired I don't go near the strip To many memories of old Vegas. These corporations give Hilton a few hundred grand to attend a party. she's going to take it. All these nuts follow the antics of these people. keeps papers from talking about issues we want to hear. If it has something to do with Hilton, Ritchie, Spears. the kids know it all everything else forget it. Lighten up on Vegas, It's not that bad. The mob gave people a good time for their money They build these billion dollar casinos because people are looking for an easy buck most of them leave without a buck. ,

The death toll is still one per person.

Even people in the Bible who served God died eventually whether it be in peace or something else.

As for hurricanes tornadoes, volcanoes, floods, lighting, and earthquakes, those are also called natural disasters. You know, things that happen every day or in its own season?

Another thing most people fail to recall is the enemy of God who wants to kill His people in the most painful way possible and kill the lost before they can get reached.

As for evil people just getting smitten on a daily basis, if that were to happen there would be no one left. That and everyone has a set time on earth, so everyone gets their opportunity to get saved.

We often ask ourselves “How could God allow this to happen?” “What did I do to be punished in this way?”

Three points about suffering:

1) Jesus resisted and eliminated suffering- Jesus healed the blind and sick.

“Then Jesus went about all cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing every disease and every sickness” (Matthew 9:35).

2) Jesus rejected suffering as punishment for sin- John’s Jesus when healing the blind man: “Neither he nor his parents sinned; its so that the works of God might be made visible through him” (see John 9: 1-41).

In Luke 13:3-4, Jesus indicated that the victims of the collapse of the tower of Siloam were not killed due to sin or guilt on their part. We all suffer "for he makes his sun rise on the bad and on the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and on the unjust" (Matthew 5:45). People just care more and think more about the suffering of good people, but God don't not discriminate. Just look at the horrible death his son Jesus suffered.

3) Jesus trusted a compassionate present God- The parable of the Prodigal Son tells a lot about the Father: he allows his son full freedom, waits for his return, and then forgives his son without any bitterness and throws a party to celebrate. Jesus used the word Abba “daddy”. Abba is a loving, forgiving, gentle parent. Even as he faced suffering and death, Jesus remained faithful to his call, always trusting in God, his mission, and the resurrection.”

Las Veas isn't swallowed into a hole because God gave everyone free will to live how we choose, and said he would not hurt man. It is not until our death or his return that we recieve judgement.

Nice justification of the atrocities committed by an immoral god. So you believe that the thousands who perished in the Haitian earthquake were simply being tested? Isn't that test a wee bit rigged? Kind of like taking a university level calculus test when you are in grade 3? Even if you can justify the death of individuals, you cannot justify the death of thousands.

God gets lost and can't find them to help. God says the world is shaped like an oblong box, and the sky is a solid barrier with holes in to allow the light of the sun, moon and stars. The bible still says that today and was the reason why the Church used to murder people for saying the world was not flat.

So God is a moron. :)

Practicing Shaman... quantum physics rocks.

I believe that God created the heavens and the earth for every scenario humanly imaginable. What's possible is that every human being has the time allowed parallel to God's divine will. We carry that trait from a date back to when my ancestral individuality began. Of course, I am different from that of my former past but I believe that my time in the past is in the future of another me or should I say my son's. The past of me was my father, but what he saw through the windows of his soul are the dreams and things I will never see. Not everything he lived through was adapted to making me but enough room was left in him to adapt things that my son will inherit from me. He will see dreams and things that I will never see but He will see things that his son's will acquire for the future individuality of all of us together. Something like a patch blanket with all it different patches of colors embroider together to make one solid blanket. God is in control

An "Act of God" is a human term that has to do with nature.

If God didn't allow ANY Christians to die in disasters, there would be quite a few 100000 year old people around. He invented nature to take care of the population of us all.

What makes them better than anyone else? I am a Christian but I hate that religion (especially Catholicism) is so Hierarchical. A priest is no more worthy of heaven and God's glory than me or any other believer in Christ.

The Bible Belt is constantly hit with flood and tornados, but don't you know, Hurricane Katrina was all about gays and feminists!

Would a god hate equality, or hypocrisy? People!

In Roman Catholicism, a nun is a female monastic who has taken solemn vows (the male equivalent is a "monk"). Nuns are cloistered to the degree established by the rule of the religious institution they enter.

In the Roman Catholic tradition, there are a number of different orders of nuns each with its own charism or special character.

In general, when a woman enters a convent she first undergoes an initial period of testing the life, known as postulancy, for a period of six months to a year. If she, and the order, determine that she may have a vocation to the life, she receives the habit of the order (usually with some modification to distinguish her from professed nuns) and undertakes the novitiate, a period of living the life of a nun without yet taking vows that lasts one to two years. Upon completion of this period she may take her initial, temporary vows. Temporary vows last one to three years, typically, and will be professed for not less than three years and not more than six. Finally, she will petition to make her "perpetual profession", taking permanent, solemn vows.

In the various branches of the Benedictine tradition (Benedictines, Cistercians, Camaldolese, and Trappists among others) nuns take vows of stability (that is, to remain a member of a single monastic community), obedience (to an abbess or prioress), and "conversion of life" (which includes the ideas of poverty and chastity). The "Poor Clares" (a Franciscan order) and those Dominican nuns who lived a cloistered life take the three-fold vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Most orders of nuns not listed here follow one of these two patterns, with some orders taking an additional vow related to the specific work or character of their order (e.g., to undertake a certain style of devotion, praying for a specific intention or purpose).

Cloistered nuns (e.g carmelites) observe "papal enclosure" rules and their monasteries typically have walls and grilles separating the nuns from the outside world. The nuns rarely leave (except for medical necessity, or occasionally for purposes related to their contemplative life) though they may have visitors in specially built parlors that allow them to meet with outsiders. They are usually self-sufficient, earning money by selling jams or candies or baked goods by mail order, or by making liturgical items (vestments, candles, bread for Holy Communion). They sometimes undertake contemplative ministries—that is a monastery of nuns is often associated with prayer for some particular good or supporting the missions of another order by prayer (for instance, the Maryknoll Order includes a monastery of cloistered nuns who pray for the work of the missionary priests, brothers and religious sisters; the Sister Disciples of the Divine Master are cloistered nuns who pray in support of the religious sisters of the Daughters of Saint Paul in their media ministry; the Dominican nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery in the Bronx, N.Y., pray in support of the priests of the Archdiocese of New York).

A canoness is a nun who corresponds to the male equivalent, a canon. The origin and rules of monastic life are common to both. As with the canons, differences in the observance of rule gave rise to two types: canons regular and secular canons.

A nun who is elected to head her monastery is termed an abbess if the monastery is an abbey, a prioress if it is a priory, or more generically may be referred to as the Mother Superior and styled "Reverend Mother". The distinction between abbey and priory has to do with the terms used by a particular order or by the level of independence of the monastery. Technically, a convent is any home of a community of sisters—or, indeed, of priests and brothers, though this term is rarely used in the U.S. The term "monastery" is often used by communities within the Benedictine family, and "convent" (when referring to a cloister) is often used of the monasteries of certain other orders.