What is wrong with people?

So I'm over at my wacko liberal haven, the Huffington Post and they have an article about the destruction of the wildfires in California. I'm an active commenter on the site, and was appalled at the response of some of the readers-- mainly that God was mad at them for passing Prop. 8, or that he was mad that people were protesting the passing of Prop. 8. I am not religious, but I do believe in God, and I can't understand how anyone would say that. I guess Old Testament God was known for raining hellfire down on people, but I see no pillars of salt-- I see innocent people who have lost EVERYTHING. CNN's update article yesterday mentioned a man whose 8 year old son is autistic. For those of you who have never had the amazing experience of meeting an autistic child, they don't deal with any minor change at all-- everything in their day is planned to the minute, food has to be specific, even colors can upset them. This man was going to have to tell his autistic son that everything he knew had disappeared, and he had no idea how to do that.

I'm not going to say what I think of Prop. 8 (though if you know me, you know my opinion) but I really don't think that's big on God's agenda-- there are wars and famine and disease, and He gave us the intelligence to monitor ourselves so that He didn't have to be everywhere at once. God may have created the wildfires that burn through California every year, but it was human failure to require fireproof shingles on homes, human failure to have oversight on fire stations built in the hills, that allowed the fire to spread as quickly and ferociously as it has. As for these people who would speak to God's will in a situation like this... go away. If you're not going to help, you're just hurting. These people, like the people of New Orleans and Houston, don't need to be told that their lives are ruined, everything they've known taken away from them in the most absolute fashion because their city has sinned. I'm willing to bet that there are some pretty devout people in those areas-- don't try to rip their faith from them because of some petty dislike of a state law.

We are all humans, we are all living on this earth together, and we must all love one another. It is this lack of community, this acceptance of division, that has left us high and dry. I don't care what religion you are, it's our humanity that makes us all the same.

(xposted)