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From: purtell@reed.UUCP (Lady Godiva)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Maryknoll called - please keep your prayers going
Message-ID: <1609@reed.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Jun-85 12:09:39 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  5 12:09:39 1985
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Summary: 

In article <1297@hammer.UUCP> seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy) writes:
>
>Why does God allow natural disasters?  No, I don't have
>the answer, but there is one possibility I'd like to point out.
>Look in Revelations.  Just before the second coming there
>is supposed to be a great increase in earthquakes and such,
>right?  Now, look at the number of earthquakes per year for
>that last few decades.  Every decade the number doubles!
>Then consider that Israel was restored as a nation in 1948,
>and that the second coming is supposed to be within one
>generation (~40 years) of that event.
>
>hmmmmm!
>
>Snoopy
>tektronix!mako!seifert

   I guess it just depends on whether or not you take Revelations
literally... 

     elizabeth g. purtell

      (Lady Godiva)