debris from an earthquake

The Lisbon earthquake occurred under a radiant sun at nine in the morning on November 1, 1755, All Saints' Day.

At that time all the churches were full and when they collapsed the faithful died crushed under their marbles that could be imagined sacred.

Since Sodom and Gomorrah, natural cataclysms were attributed to the punishment of an angry God for the wickedness of humans.

But the Lisbon earthquake, which caused more than 100,000 deaths, was the first to undermine the foundations of religion, since at the height of the Enlightenment it also caused the two tectonic plates of philosophy and theology, of faith, to collide. and the reason.

Some believers raised their eyes to heaven and dared to ask God: Why?

Voltaire himself exclaimed: What are the preachers going to say now...!

Nothing.

The clerics took advantage of this catastrophe to pull out the whip, and the temples were rebuilt despite the fact that they had crushed the majority of the faithful.

In his famous poem about this tragedy, Voltaire wondered how, being so wise and omnipotent, God allowed innocent children to die under the rubble.

Today no one is so naive to ask that question.

Everyone knows what it is about and does not expect a God to claim responsibility for the immense tragedy of the earthquake in Syria and Turkey.

The Pope of Rome could do it, who claims to be his representative on earth, but I can imagine his anguish at having to show his face leaning out of a Vatican window.

Who to blame?

Pope Francis could speak like Pangloss, the unredeemed optimist of the

and the temples were rebuilt even though most of the faithful had been crushed.

In his famous poem about this tragedy, Voltaire wondered how, being so wise and omnipotent, God allowed innocent children to die under the rubble.

Today no one is so naive to ask that question.

Everyone knows what it is about and does not expect a God to claim responsibility for the immense tragedy of the earthquake in Syria and Turkey.

The Pope of Rome could do it, who claims to be his representative on earth, but I can imagine his anguish at having to show his face leaning out of a Vatican window.

Who to blame?

Pope Francis could speak like Pangloss, the unredeemed optimist of the

and the temples were rebuilt even though most of the faithful had been crushed.

In his famous poem about this tragedy, Voltaire wondered how, being so wise and omnipotent, God allowed innocent children to die under the rubble.

Today no one is so naive to ask that question.

Everyone knows what it is about and does not expect a God to claim responsibility for the immense tragedy of the earthquake in Syria and Turkey.

The Pope of Rome could do it, who claims to be his representative on earth, but I can imagine his anguish at having to show his face leaning out of a Vatican window.

Who to blame?

Pope Francis could speak like Pangloss, the unredeemed optimist of the

Voltaire wondered how God, being so wise and omnipotent, allowed innocent children to die under the rubble.

Today no one is so naive to ask that question.

Everyone knows what it is about and does not expect a God to claim responsibility for the immense tragedy of the earthquake in Syria and Turkey.

The Pope of Rome could do it, who claims to be his representative on earth, but I can imagine his anguish at having to show his face leaning out of a Vatican window.

Who to blame?

Pope Francis could speak like Pangloss, the unredeemed optimist of the

Voltaire wondered how God, being so wise and omnipotent, allowed innocent children to die under the rubble.

Today no one is so naive to ask that question.

Everyone knows what it is about and does not expect a God to claim responsibility for the immense tragedy of the earthquake in Syria and Turkey.

The Pope of Rome could do it, who claims to be his representative on earth, but I can imagine his anguish at having to show his face leaning out of a Vatican window.

Who to blame?

Pope Francis could speak like Pangloss, the unredeemed optimist of the

who claims to be his representative on earth, but I imagine his anguish at having to face a Vatican window.

Who to blame?

Pope Francis could speak like Pangloss, the unredeemed optimist of the

who claims to be his representative on earth, but I imagine his anguish at having to face a Vatican window.

Who to blame?

Pope Francis could speak like Pangloss, the unredeemed optimist of the

de Voltaire: everything is for our own good, we live in the best of all possible worlds.

In fact, seen from a satellite, the earthquake debris in Syria and Turkey looks as natural as that produced by human wickedness in the Ukraine war.

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