The world stood agast this week as a massive earthquake shook the tiny country of Haiti down to rubble. The death toll rises daily, unrelentingly reminding the world of its own frail mortality. As of the writing of this article, the EU reports an estimated 200,000 people dead and over 1.5 million rendered homeless. This number is likely to rise due to lack of medical attention and the violence that has erupted in this unstable nation.
By all accounts, this is a disaster. A tragedy. Some have used the phrase, “an act of Godâ€. My insurance company uses that phrase to refer to bad things that happen to my car that cannot be blamed on anyone. They just happened, they’re bad, so we call them “acts of God”.
