He hasn't wiped out any cities recently. We're supposed to believe that He destroyed two cities more than 2,000 years ago because of some gays, but yet He's tolerated the Holocaust and all the millions who've been murdered in His name since that time?
I can see God laughing out loud at the gullibility of man.
He destroyed two cities because they were immoral.
From Genesis 19, the story:
1:The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. 2 “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.”
“No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”
3 But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. 4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. 5 They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”
6 Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him 7 and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing. 8 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
9 “Get out of our way,” they replied. “This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge! We’ll treat you worse than them.” They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.10 But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. 11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.
12 The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, 13 because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.”
14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry[a] his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
15 With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”
So Lot and his family were spared because they were the ONLY people in town who found favor with The Almighty--
and listened.
As for that being the last of it, well, you left out a few things. a multitude of volcanic eruptions including Pompeii and Herculaneum, the sacking (and fall) of Rome, The Crusades, the Black Death, Cholera, Typhus, the Port Royal Earthquake, The London Fire, the year without a summer, the Chicago Fire, the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Yellow Fever, the Spanish Flu, ...not counting Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, between natural and man made disasters, including multiple events in some places (Haiti comes to mind), oh, and AIDS/HIV.
Laugh at our gullibility?
Hardly, because those of us who know Him know who is the Deceiver; Alinsky dedicated his book to that one who leads humans down the path to self-destruction, especially the gullible.
More like weep at it, and our hubris which leads to self-destruction. But He will have the last word.
The fire thing is still there, now more than ever, especially with little Kim trying to play Archduke Ferdinand.
Only moral people will refrain from the widespread use of nukes. The rest will dream of ruling over the ashes from their bunkers.
