I figure God has His nuts in a vise, like that question "Can God make an object so massive that He cannot move it?"
He created us in His image; A nasty little Apex Predator with an insatiable lust for human blood and money.
That's OK.
He gave us free will, and thereby hangs the creation of an object that He cannot move.
He's obviously a just and moral God because He's playing by His own rules.
This wonderful planet he gave us to inhabit has it's own tidal patterns and calamities. Occasional extinction level events level the playing field. Glaciation ebbs and flows. These events do come from God. He made the Earth and Heavens. There's a lot involved in planetary evolution, stellar lifecycles and atoms and bosons and such. It all needs to click along to some observable but arcane rules, and in accordance with the second law of thermodynamics and random play, shit happens. You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. Earthquakes, ice ages, meteor strike, they are all just part of the celestial machinery. Sure, it keeps heaven stacked with fresh bodies, but His most wonderful creation, Us, have demonstrated such a voracious drive to increase our numbers exponentially and kill proportionately that in the 'Wrath of God' scale, we are right up there, just below a meteor slamming into the Yucatan Peninsula but way above cancer, earthquakes, cigarettes, shark attacks and influenza combined.
Disease has a long and distinguished history and its impressive numbers are due to longevity. We got that beat. We bin killin' for waaaaay long before some of these diseases were even born. We have the God given ability to create artificially what happened to the Yucatan Peninsula. It would only be an approximation of what a truly awesome spectacle that must have been. It would have been worth being vaporized just to say "I saw that". Our approximation would require a concerted launch of all our fissile material. It would not be as impressive as a meteor the size of Texas smacking into Earth, and it will never happen - we can't fucking agree on anything, let alone the logistics required by a simultaneous launch to turn the Earths crust into glowing dust.
We are created in His image and while I weep for such innocents as Matthew Shepard and Hamza al-Khatib then so must God. I don't suppose to know His mind on who should be tortured to death and who shouldn't, but if He's like me then He has to be disgusted to be associated with some of the scumbags among us that would do such a thing. Not all mind you - He's like us remember, so there's gotta be some number among us that He thinks deserve to get emasculated, kneecapped, pistol whipped and used as a human ashtray. I don't presume to speak for Him, but in my book, if He needs to get that shite out of His system then He could do worse than starting with those among us in His creation that act this way.
It's the free will Catch-22 thing.
Earthquakes are acts of God. They are random, but you can increase your odds if you are where I am right now (i.e. Northern California and fucking with God). Us killin' and killin' in His name is free will. As stated before, He's playing by the rules. He's not come down to earth, lain waste to all the non-believer scum, purged the child molesters and torturers from the remaining believers and turned Earth into his own little Aryan paradise.
Just like earthquakes are indiscriminate killers, so are we. I'm sure God has a good day when we fuck up someone real good that is on his shit list, but we are so fucking random that this must be a small victory in the overall scheme of things where our targets far from being someone deserving just happen to be someone else.
God is an equal opportunity killer in my book, the good with the bad, the innocent and the corrupt, young and old. He takes us all.
Good citizens I would imagine enjoy an anonymous sort of paradise, like I experienced this weekend. People like Hitler and Gandhi and Dahmer and Mother Teresa and Jimi Hendrix and Jerry Garcia - these people I would imagine He'd want hanging around His gaff - specimens like Hitler and Dahmer He'd want to keep under glass though and away from everything nice, like his scorpion or tarantula collection, but you gotta admit, God has made some real beauts. I know hubris is a sin but while He's rapping with Descartes or Democritus, He's got to be looking forward to the day when a crate with airholes punched in it full of raving assholery stamped "C. M. Manson" gets drop shipped back to its maker. Jest imagine that fucker instead of a 52" Plasma TV as the talking point of YOUR next party.
So while God cannot simply gather in those He loves the most and those He hates the most and let the rest of us enjoy the real estate that they used to occupy, He can sleep sound at night knowing that in this celestial game of marbles, all the marbles belong to Him.
