This illustrates my favortie pet peeve of religion. When they claim that everyone who doesnt' believe as they do will eight die, go to hell or be wiped off the face of the earth because they displeased god. Yet, in the bible, in almost every case where people were wiped out, god needed the help of man to get it done. In other cases like Sodom, they gave god credit for a natural disaster. Sodom was destroyed by an earthquake, but under the city were lots of natural gas pockets which got released during the earthquake, and the was a massive explosion that destroyed two cities Their wickedness was made up after the fact to explain the disaster.