Rather than visualise God as a strictly anthropomorphic being, if we consider Him instead, rightly indeed, as the totality of all creation then it is reasonably fair to cast and term hurricanes as ‘acts of God’.
Former IRA volunteer and ex-prisoner, spent 18 years in Long Kesh, 4 years on the blanket and no-wash/no work protests which led to the hunger strikes of the 80s. Completed PhD at Queens upon release from prison. Left the Republican Movement at the endorsement of the Good Friday Agreement, and went on to become a journalist. Co-founder of The Blanket, an online magazine that critically analyzed the Irish peace process. Lead researcher for the Belfast Project, an oral history of the Troubles.
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Rather than visualise God as a strictly anthropomorphic being, if we consider Him instead, rightly indeed, as the totality of all creation then it is reasonably fair to cast and term hurricanes as ‘acts of God’.
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