The San Francisco Tiger Christmas Attack and the Bogarting of God

Tiger kills San Francisco Zoo patron, injures two others -- "One zoo visitor was mauled to death and two others severely injured when a Siberian tiger escaped from its grotto at the San Francisco Zoo early Christmas evening and went on a bloody rampage in front of terrified zoo patrons."

Remember the Asian Tsunami a couple Christmas's ago? What a birthday present for His Son! And how omnipotent of Him, right? Yet this time He willed a monstrous beast to feast on a young man while giving two others literally a gut-wrenching preview for when it was their turn. I'm starting to think that Jesus is hard to please.

Faith is so useful in these sorts of stark disillusioning situations, isn't it? Oh let's just all pray about it. I mean, surely He'll continue answering our banal prayers for money, health and love, won't he?

That God, He's so mysterious and so very..

"Their forelimbs and shoulders are heavily muscled and the forepaws have long sharp retractile claws, enabling them to grab and hold prey once contact is made.. The skull is foreshortened, thus increasing the shearing leverage of the powerful jaws.. The tongue is coated with sharp-pointed papillae which retain and lacerate food and rip flesh off a carcass. Large canines are used to bring down and hold prey."
San Francisco Zoo Website

..wicked.

Oh wait, I know what's going on with His Almighty. He's been too busy with Extreme Makeover Home Edition. That must be it... But then... there were twenty or so thousand children painfully starving to death daily in Africa before that show premiered so I'm not sure.

I guess having a childlike unquestioning faith must really help with these sorts of annoying pesky realities.. well.. not in Africa I suppose. Well damn, I just thought of those poor Russian Beslan children blown to smithereens in their school gymnasium by Chechen terrorists a couple years ago.

God, you'll still help me with my prayers though, right? Hello? God? Anyone there?

Damn that Extreme Makeover Home Edition!