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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,499 posts) Wed Dec 24, 2014, 10:38 AM Dec 2014

Tsunami, ten years later

In the wake of every tornado that wipes out a community in the Bible belt, someone inevitably thanks his deity for sparing a church. Never mind the dozens of people who died; the sparing of the church proves the existence of their deity.

When the tsunami hit Banda Aceh ten years ago, the non-destruction of the Rahmatullah mosque somehow escaped their notice:

(from Mengenang Tsunami di Masjid Rahmatullah)