Below is a letter I submitted to the weekly newspaper, the Neepawa Banner today. =============== Dear Editor, I am puzzled by a recent column in the weekly newspaper, the Neepawa Banner by Rev. Neil Strohschein, entitled “A Christian response to natural disasters.” I find your conclusion that God loves the victims of such storms, cries out for further explanation. Who or what is making these storms in the first place, then? Is it not God? Because the faithful believe God is all-powerful, do they not? If it is not Him, who/what is it, then? Does He not have the power to prevent such calamities? If He does not, does that not make Him less than all-powerful? And if it is Him, please explain to me how raining down such massive misery and destruction on his flock can possibly be an act of love? While you do not address this following point in your column, it is one which, IMHO, also cries out for a response from the religious. It is customary in the fa
