void where prohibited

I remember watching TV once and a story coming on about a village near a lake in Africa.
Sometime during the night, it is believed that a landslide occurred somewhere deep in under the waters, sending up a massive plume of c02.
This toxic cloud spilled up and over the crater rim of the lake and sank downwards killing everything in it's path including entire communities of sleeping humans.
I remember thinking to myself as I often had when confronted with the vicissitudes of nature, why is it that you never hear anything like this from religious people?
One of the things that makes American fundamentalism so smug, is it's general isolation from everyday horrors that are faced in most of the world.
Oh sure, they may face the occasional hurricane (more as a result of their SUV's than any supernatural force), but even that is somehow lost in their assertion that god almighty had spared them in some miraculous fashion. Forgetting, I suppose that this very god generated the storm to begin with.

When Biologist David Attenborough was repeatedly asked if he believed in god, his response was that if he chose to believe that, then he had to believe that the parasite robbing the child of his eyesight in Africa, was deliberately created and directed.
That he said, he could not accept.