Don't blame God, folks; gods are lumbered with the characteristics that their inventors endow them with. For some reason the Jews fancied a God who would be monstrously cruel to folks, and then be worshipped by them as a thank-you for his nastiness. The Christians then took him over and made him into a loving and caring God, though they failed to notice that he liked to express that love and care in the form of earthquakes, droughts, famines, hurricanes, tsunamis and the like. What a pity they couldn't rid him of those Old Testament bad habits.