Bill: First you say such tragedies are NOT the wish of God.  Then you say He allows them to happen.  That's just a tad contradictory.  If you, I, anyone else or God or god or gods "allow" something to happen (something we're capable of stopping from happening; that's implicit in "allowing") then, clearly, we WISH it to happen.  As a believer and a Christian, I presume you credit God with be omnipotent....so clearly He,She, It or whatever, has the power to stop something from happening and, if it happens, was aware of it (omniscient) and didn't stop it.  Therefore, god either "wished" it to happen or just didn't care one way or the other.  Frankly, when I see tragedies such as hurricanes or mass shooting, I have real trouble accepting that god, if one exists, is really a very "loving-god."  Gary..hard-core agnostic...Crum