Is "God" Really in Control of Everything?

We've already beheld the vast devastation in the wake of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami on March 7. Was God in "control" of that? Then why couldn't he at least have limited the destruction, and deaths, you know to maybe 1,000 killed as opposed to 27,000 (now estimated)? What about the ghastly brutal murders that I've cited already, including of Hayley and Michaela Petit? Couldn't God at least have enabled their killers to leave out the torture and burning alive? Did he have to allow all THAT to be added? On the face of it, it seems if God is in any kind of control, it isn't of very much.

Then there was the incident from June 14 last year which adds more reinforcement to that. We learned (see photo image) a bolt of lightning (basically composed of quantum level electrical charges) shot out of the sky just north of the I-75 near Monroe, Ohio and destroyed the statue of Christ called "The King of Kings".

The 62 foot tall statue was made of plastic foam and fiberglass over a steel frame. Evidently nothing was left to salvage or even see, according to eye witnesses, as it was incinerated.

The statue, one of southwest Ohio's most familiar landmarks, had stood since 2004 at the evangelical Solid Rock Church along Interstate 75 in Monroe, just north of Cincinnati..

Now, this incident introduces a number of questions that beg to be addressed by the Christianoid pseudo-pastors and know it alls:

As we know, the evangelicals are all about needling unbelievers to "accept Jesus Christ as personal Lord and Savior” in order to achieve "salvation". This statue, near an evangelical church, was therefore a key prop to sustain the faithful with an iconic image of that very Savior, as it lured the wafflers or those leaning toward “redemption” but still unsure if brainjacked evangelicalism was the correct path.

Given all this, why would the all-powerful God allow the image of his SAVIOR SON to be destroyed? Especially given its symbolic import according to. the bible punchers.

If God is omnisicent, and knew before all time a lightning strike would be released at that place and time, could he not have redirected the lightning to just strike some bushes or a rock as opposed to this statue of his "only begotten son"? Inquiring minds really want to know!

Finally, what can we take away from this event? Does it have MEANING, and if so what? Or, is it meaningless? If meaningless, bear in mind you evangelicals are then disarmed in terms of reading significance into other events, including in Arkansas 8 weeks earlier when a person huddling inside was spared as tornadoes struck. Does God then have favorites on who he will intervene for and who not?

Maybe there are a few possible answers here.

1. A real God exists, and is getting fed up with the evangelicals’ overbearing, arrogant ways in his name. Perhaps he was trying to send a message by allowing lightning to smack down the largest Christ statue in the country.

2. Some (e.g. Socinian) form of God exists but is unable to control events at the quantum level – including lightning discharges constituted of rapidly flowing electric charges (electrons)

3. No deity of any kind exists, the cosmos is at root quantum indeterminate and purposeless. Then the lightning strike and destruction of the statue was yet one more example that we inhabit a random universe, where random or purposeless events occur at the physical level. A lightning strike can whack a human….or an oversized Christ statue, it makes no sense to reading anything into it. Nor does it make any difference if you're in a church seeking safety or not. Sure, a guy was spared some weeks ago as he huddled inside a church as tornadoes whirled outside, but how come in 1994 seven little girls were killed when the church they were hiding in collapsed when a twister struck in Ala.?

Inquiring and probing minds want answers from the evangelical apologists. But we somehow doubt we'll get any really sound answers. All they really know is how to create pet fantasies to soothe their own existential qualms since deep down, they know they are orphans in a purposeless cosmos. If they have any REAL answers, they'd have given them by now, but as we know, they always punk out!