I Find 'gods' Acts of punishment and his miracles a bit underwhelming and not proof of his existence. Why? Well likes a looks at his 'punishments' first.
His punishments come in the form of natural disasters, Like hurricanes, tornados, storms etc.. All of which happen naturally, regularly and mostly predictable (I use mostly loosely). Now no matter how bad they are in terms of what you purpose, these are somewhat weak half-arsed attempts to wipe specific people out and ends up cause collateral to the people who he does not want to harm. Nothing divine there.
A if god really wanted to show his power then a lightning strike on the people he wants to kill and its in day time infrount of 1000's of people on a clear day, that's more befitting of a God.
Now his so called miracles are normal statically possible for example the WTC on 9/11. The people who survived that, were statical likely to survive and just happened to be right place at the right time and it was pure chance and could have happened to anybody there, Note: in any disaster there is always 1 survivor and larger the disaster the more people will survive unless its something nobody could survive like a Nuclear explosion (if they have no deep ingrained bunker or some form of protection that was pre planned and tips the odds in your favor).
Now a real miracle befitting of a God would be a Major disaster where everybody survives and is completely unharmed and is against all odds.
For example: A nuclear explosion happens in a major city that is highly and densely populated and it kills nobody, everybody survives against all odds and nobody is harmed. And that's a miracle, if that was to ever happen I would convert there and then that would prove to me there was a god/ess and s/he wanted everybody to survive. But since your god is not like that (or even exists). I highly doubt something like that would ever happen.
His punishments come in the form of natural disasters, Like hurricanes, tornados, storms etc.. All of which happen naturally, regularly and mostly predictable (I use mostly loosely). Now no matter how bad they are in terms of what you purpose, these are somewhat weak half-arsed attempts to wipe specific people out and ends up cause collateral to the people who he does not want to harm. Nothing divine there.
A if god really wanted to show his power then a lightning strike on the people he wants to kill and its in day time infrount of 1000's of people on a clear day, that's more befitting of a God.
Now his so called miracles are normal statically possible for example the WTC on 9/11. The people who survived that, were statical likely to survive and just happened to be right place at the right time and it was pure chance and could have happened to anybody there, Note: in any disaster there is always 1 survivor and larger the disaster the more people will survive unless its something nobody could survive like a Nuclear explosion (if they have no deep ingrained bunker or some form of protection that was pre planned and tips the odds in your favor).
Now a real miracle befitting of a God would be a Major disaster where everybody survives and is completely unharmed and is against all odds.
For example: A nuclear explosion happens in a major city that is highly and densely populated and it kills nobody, everybody survives against all odds and nobody is harmed. And that's a miracle, if that was to ever happen I would convert there and then that would prove to me there was a god/ess and s/he wanted everybody to survive. But since your god is not like that (or even exists). I highly doubt something like that would ever happen.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
