how can you say that? I can start a ball rolling down a hill, bouncing around as it hits stones. Doesn't mean that I intervene in its path while it's going.
A god that started everything (including even laws which govern the environment) is no more of an interventionist than you are over an ant farm you built and watch on top of your desk.
Now if you are talking about who is ultimately responsible for shit like the earthquake in haiti, thats another matter. Doesn't mean there is present intervention.
some people believe in a non-interventionist God.
Maybe it's because we have a Pres who gives a shit about black people for a change?
Unlike Pat Robertson, et al who are still blaming the Haitians for being devil worshippers. Christian, my fat, hairy ass.
Anybody else remember post Katrina when Barbara Bush visited N Orleans and said, quote that this whole thing "has worked out quite well for them?" She meant in her twisted reptilian way that, since the people were dirt poor before, but NOW they were getting shelter and food, that it was a WIN/WIN for them.
If you created the rocks, the hill, the ball (including everything about the ball down the its materials and the humans who made it), the physics that would determine the path of the ball rolling down the hill, and everything else, then that changes the picture. I would say your presence and what you do at any given moment has everything to do with how the ball rolls down the hill.
There's always a present intervention if an all-mighty creator created every attribute of everything in existence, such as the behavior patterns of a ball bouncing down a hill or the instincts of ants that eat leaves and shit to survive. Or a planet with shifting plates that happens to accidentally some of its inhabitants.
The way I see it, the allowance of all things good and bad is a form of intervention in the hands of an almighty, all seeing God.
it will be the demise of the last FREE NATION on earth,