The most important lesson from the Japan earthquake is that there are no lessons for human behaviour; and over the next few days it is vital that we watch out for the preachers and the moralisers who will try to use it to further their campaigns.
via telegraph.co.uk
None? What a sweeping generalization! How about that we are small in this world, subject to forces beyond our control or imagination, prone to suffer in the cataclysms of this earthly life, which ought to lead us to call upon the God who controls all and place our trust, our lives, and our future in him.
Yes, people have always misused the tragedies of life to make a buck or a misguided point, create a following or their own social, political or religious upheaval. But there is still much we can learn when the harsh realities of physical life interrupt our frenetic rush for the material.