Bill, you're quite right that "... these incidents ... be a wake up call for this nation and the world." But what in the world does "God" have to do with it? "God" is a myth, conjured in the minds of men for the purpose of serving as a false sense of security and someone to blame when it all hits the fan, an entity imagined, for the sake of convenience, to be in our image. "God" is introduced in the first sentence of the Bible as the assumption of a fact not in evidence ... something no judge in the land would allow at court. The wake-up call, Mr. Hooper, is that the wont of the human condition is the consumption of more and more resources at the cost of whatever and whomever stands in its way. The bubble will burst on those resources and war and violence to dominate whatever's left will reign. This is not the work of "God," Mr. Hooper; it's the work of "Man."