Does it bother anyone else how the world in general sees these natural disasters and still doesn't want to convert or make amends?

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I was thinking about the devastating fires in Australia and seeing pictures of people crying and scared to death looking on at these destructive fires the size of Manhattan (literally) but I can’t help but look at the world in general and I can’t help but become frustrated because nothing will change…simply because many choose to not make amends to Our Lord and to stop the offenses to his sacred heart and Our Lady’s immaculate heart. Have we become to hardened as a society? We always seem a scientific and political explanation but it seems we are becoming more distant from the Father which I only going to resort in more Disasters (both God and man made) and more war upon the earth.
 
How can you tell from looking at people that they have not had a conversion, or haven’t made amends?
So my answer is no, it doesn’t bother me because I am not judging what other people do. I can only change myself.
 
Not looking at specific people but the world in general is always crying for peace and love and other worldly solutions when in reality we are trying to patch up our immoralities and sinful society. The words of Our Lady ar Fatima still ring as true now as a hundred years ago. you cry peace and love where there is no peace and love. Only the Father can give us that and we as a world just keep denying him
 
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It will only get worse as long as we don’t live a life of penance and pray for their conversion.
 
Well, to play devils advocate, I don’t see how, if I was an atheist, merely experiencing a natural disaster would make be believe in God. Natural disasters have a natural cause that doesn’t have to be explained supernaturally, so an atheist seeing a natural disaster could logically conclude that there’s nothing supernatural about it.
 
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Even the smallest amount of grace, no matter how insignificant, can save. Don’t let human reasoning keep you from living the life of penance which Jesus demands from us. As the Body of Christ, and co-redeemers with Jesus, every soul on earth is our responsibility. We are our brothers keeper.
 
Some see fires as God’s punishment as in Old Testament days and in the style of the Book of Revelation. Some see the intensity of the fires and its loss of life and property as a result of changing climates. Some see natural disasters as predictable for their environment , America’s Tornado Alley, Australia’s propensity to burn and the way the artefacts of fire regenerate flora, glacier melt and tumbling downhill onto towns, volcanic eruptions and their ensuing artefacts that have effects on the environment.

The Book of Revelation tells us there are many people who are not going to repent even after punishments unleashed as the 7 scrolls are unrolled.

Yes it is disheartening, we must place our trust in God.
 
If the premise is that God causes natural disasters as punishment / warnings to mankind, perhaps people would respond differently if there was a perceived relationship between moral evils and said disaster. I would suggest that places like San Francisco, Hollywood, Beijing, etc. might be more obvious places needing such chastisement than Kangaroo Island Australia. Assuming that God does in fact act that way.
 
Luke 13:2 - 5 "He asked them, “Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as they did. Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam fell on them—do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others living in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish just as they did.”

Matthew 5:45 “so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.”
 
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so an atheist seeing a natural disaster could logically conclude that there’s nothing supernatural about it.
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Not only an atheist. I’m a Catholic and that’s my conclusion too.There’s nothing supernatural about it.
 
Exactly. Disasters should be a wake up call for all of us. But we should never conclude that people are getting the punishment they deserve.
 
Matthew 5:45

“That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, who maketh his sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust”.
 
That is one thing I have noticed during a natural calamity is a call for prayers,people banding together,all the good generated in caring …there is always mention of praying and prayers .
 
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SPBlitz:
so an atheist seeing a natural disaster could logically conclude that there’s nothing supernatural about it.
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Not only an atheist. I’m a Catholic and that’s my conclusion too.There’s nothing supernatural about it.
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Yes, completely natural not supernatural.
 
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And are those who are suffering the most also the most guilty?
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That is a question for God. Punishment was meant to purify and turn people back to God. Take the Babylonian Exile as an example.
 
my problem with that is you can’t really know for sure who is and who isn’t really praying. Many people on social media are so quick to loosely say the word “prayers for you” or “praying”.

A part of me feels like if you say stuff like that but you’re not actively praying to God in times like this it can fall under the sin of Omission.
 
I’m not sure how we can know whether a disaster is from the Lord or merely only purely natural. If we were seated in heaven perhaps we could see the hand of God initializing many events that happen on earth, but our home is on the earth and God’s hand is invisible to us as are most of his intentions from day to day, so to us the things that happen seem to just happen.

The Book of Revelation was written from a heavenly perspective and John saw that the earthly disasters which are listed in that Book and which came upon mankind were actually initialized by the hand of God. After every earthly disaster the people’s response, as listed in Revelation is, “and still they did not repent.”

I agree with the verses that others have posted regarding the falling of the Tower of Siloam, etc., but perhaps that was the fault of men in that the tower was improperly built and collapsed because of that. We just don’t know for sure.

There are many scriptural verses which indicate that God is ultimately in charge of the weather and other verses which tell how God uses the weather to bless or to bring judgement. So I’m not sure we can look at everything that occurs upon the earth and know that it is just a natural process.

Many of those who don’t repent just don’t want God to begin with. In times of blessing or in times of hardship, they just don’t want him in their lives.
 
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My local priest was mentioning his sadness and we could all feel his anguish.

As I was leaving I shock his hand and said, " Do not be a grieved, nor never try to ever understand this wicked world we live in, everything must come to pass even our own lives. So we must be grateful for the blessings we have".

Trust me much worse things are to happen yet. Hopefully we will not be a live to witness such wicked events like WW3.
 
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