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[Responsibility2nd]

I’m tempted to smirk that this belongs in religion. But overall it’s a very interesting story. Thanks for posting.

[JimRed]

The best documented loss of life, perhaps, but no one knows how many the Thera (Santorini) eruption killed millennia before. It effectively ended the Minoan civilization.

[Fantasywriter]

Luke 13:

Repent or Perish

1 Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. 

2 Jesus answered,“Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way?

3 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.

4 Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem?

5 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”

[353FMG]

It happened in 1902?

There should be plenty of B&W photos around to show what St. Pierre was like in those days.

We in America can out-sin St. Pierre by the number of abortions performed by Planned Parenthood.

Woe is us.

[onedoug]

God has made Earth into a very active geophysical system without which we would not be alive to contemplate it. Though not every catastrophe therefrom is necessarily Jonathan Edwards’ “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”.

To presume on God necessarily a good, nor the right thing in His eyes.

[Mr. Jeeves]

The town of St Pierre on the French Caribbean island of Martinique is a shadow of its former glory. Only 5000 people live there as opposed to 30,000 during its heyday when it was known as the Paris of the Caribbean.

Martinique still has almost 400,000 people. The article kind of implies the whole island was abandoned.