Why does it seem like so many of the public figures making comments about the "meaning" (i.e., the "religious" "meaning") of the tsunami disaster are talking about neither the human sufferers, nor the waves, nor meaning, nor religion, nor God, but rather chewing on their own turds, swallowing them, and then regurgitating the turds onto a microphone?

For instance, this bishop sounds to me like an asshole:

RAFAEL EPSTEIN: The Anglican Dean of Sydney, Phillip Jensen, is quoted in a newspaper saying that disasters are a part of God's warning that judgement is coming. What does that comment mean?

ROBERT FORSYTH: Firstly, I think the Dean said many other things that the paper did not publish, that disasters can function this way. And the Dean really is merely following the example of Jesus. I know this may shock people – when Jesus was asked about a natural disaster, a tower that had fallen on people, and people whom Herod had killed, they said to him, 'We're these people more sinful than the rest?' And Jesus wouldn't answer that sort of silly question. He said, 'Be warned, you will all perish unless you repent'. In other words, without explaining the diaster, even Jesus drew people's attention to let the disasters be a warning to them, of their own mortality and need to be right with God.

These non-Christian religious figures sound to me like major sons of bitches:

"This is an expression of God's great ire with the world," Israeli chief rabbi Shlomo Amar told Reuters. "The world is being punished for wrongdoing — be it people's needless hatred of each other, lack of charity, moral turpitude."

Pandit Harikrishna Shastri, a priest of New Delhi's huge marble and sandstone Birla Hindu temple, told Reuters the disaster was caused by a "huge amount of pent-up man-made evil on earth" and driven by the positions of the planets.

Sheikh Ibrahim Mogra, a leading British Muslim cleric from Leicester in England said: "We believe that God has ultimate controlling power over his entire creation. We have a responsibility to try and attract god's kindness and mercy and not do anything that would attract his anger."

Jennifer Giroux, director, Women Influencing the Nation sounds to me like someone with a knife sticking out of her throat:

Throughout history and reported early in the Bible, God has always used plagues, floods and natural disasters as a source of punishment.

One can talk about a sad lost generation over there in the disaster going on in Asia. We have a lost generation of 40 million aborted babies in this country that is being ignored by so many people. I believe that this situation that happens makes all of us look inward, realize God is ultimately in control of life and death.

Look at what we're looking with just in this country with cloning, homosexuality, trying to make homosexual marriages, abortion, lack of God in the schools, taking Jesus out of Christmas. I can't pretend to know the mind of God. But, historically, there have been warnings. And God, who is all-loving and all-good, and he will not be mocked.

And last but not least, Tom Delay sounds to me like vicious, baby-devouring, bloodthirsty murderer:

Everyone who listens to these words of mine, and acts on them, will be like a wise man, who built his house on a rock:

The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew, and buffeted the house, but it did not collapse; it has been set solidly on rock.

And everyone who listens to these words of mine, but does not act on them, will be like a fool who built his house on sand:

The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew, and buffeted the house, and it collapsed and was completely ruined."