text: I get your point, but it's beside the point. "The generalized response" is another thing entirely from the question of why God abides the massive suffering inflicted by nature itself. Why does the God of Christianity, who Jesus said was conscious of the number of hairs on every person, and to whom every person is valuable, appear indifferent to human misery? APatrick is simply restating an ancient theological conundrum. The Church explains these evils exist because the world is fallen due to a primordial act of disobedience, an absurd proposition to any modern person.
  
  Of course the heroic activities of ordinary people in response to calamity is wonderful. You may say that their selflessness is a reflection of the love of God. But it doesn't explain the fact that the natural world can be a cruel and terrifying place and that, if the cosmos is an expression of God's will, that God wills it to be so.