Lol Snow and Strawberry...your comments were very humorous..:)
Okay...I think that maybe some of you have either not read my reply to my own thread in which I apologised for my comments on this thread and on the thread started by Winnie regarding the tsunami disaster...or you have chosen to ignore the apology anyway..it doesn't matter, the apology still stands.
As I have now read the discussion in the Gospel section of the site, I am very happy to read about the efforts that the members of your church have made on behalf of the victims of the tsunami. It was because I had previously attended your church for 5 years and always found the church a caring and considerate, community spirited organisation that I was so shocked to think that nobody had posted any sympathetic threads about the disaster...as I have said, this was a mistake on my part.
PD...you make some good points...you are right, not every post regarding the disaster has to contain expressions of sympathy...also, yes I was being judgemental. I apologise for that. Also, I may have misinterpreted the words in the first post in this thread which refer to the 'wickedness' in the area affected being reflected by the tsunami as meaning that perhaps the people brought the disaster on themselves and it was a 'good' thing that perhaps some future terrorists might have been killed...trouble is, who knows who is gonna turn out to be a terrorist in the future. No, I don't think I would feel any sympathy for any terrorists or other sadistic types killed in this or any other disaster either.
Finally, Setheus...I wasn't comparing the bible stories to Mother Goose stories, I compared them to Aesop's fables, stories with a moral, same sort of thing as the parables that Jesus told....hope that explains my meaning a little clearer.
Anyway, I hope that this helps people to understand why I got on such a 'high horse' in my first reply on this thread, and I hope that my apologies are accepted in the relevant places.