Not to diminish personal loss, but I have an honest question here. If the universe is so vast, with over 6 billion people just on puny planet earth today compared with the vast recesses of the known expansive universe, and given that we're just in a sliver of a window of time throughout all of the history of time eternal, how is it that whenever something bad happens it must therefore be some personal and intentional act?
Not trying to be sarcastic, really just trying to understand here. What makes an 80-year-old grandfather who dies falling down a well some intentional act of god meant to exact punishment on a singled-out individual? It's a very ego-centric, "I am the center of the universe, all revolves around me" way of thinking.
Every time we have some natural disaster, the religious kooks come out of the closet telling us that it's God's punishment for left-handed people, accountants, or people who speak Tamil, or something weird like that. But to see every time you're bit by a mosquito as some kind of "act of God", isn't that a bit much? Where do you draw the line?