Thankless Job

Found in a user forum on a website I frequent:

I was disgusted that our current imposter president did not come before our nation to praise God on Thanksgiving.    [This would have put me off my feed and wasted a perfectly tasty meal!]

Also, in the destruction of hurricane Sandy, there was no appeal for God's mercy and protection from our "leader" before the storm struck. After it was over his statement was "the government will take care of you." Again no reference to God. No wonder our problems keep getting worse.

Even if there were a god, would his/her job not be to intervene early to turn the storm away?  Though to have a truly capable leader calling out to ask for "protection" would have been pathetic.  If any super being worthy of reverence had been around and attentive, the calming of the storm should have been a piece of cake.  However, many thousands of citizens of the midwest and south who have been knocked around for all of our history by tornadoes and hurricanes would have rightfully taken umbrage at such a show of favoritism in Sandy's case.  Then, once the damage was done, were we to beg that invisible being to pull bodies from the rubble and provide shelter and comforts to those already suffering?

There does not appear to be any way to prove the non-existence of a god or gods, but there is obviously a lack of involvement in our world on the part of any such traditional supreme being.  What would be the point of crying to a legendary phantom after we have already been flattened by the force of a natural disaster?  Especially, crying by governmental leaders!  The job of government is precisely what the president and others in elected office set about doing following the recent storm.  Seems a bit late to make some weak supplication to the heavens when your prayer mat has been washed away.

The responsibility of government is quite clearly to deal with reality, with determination and boots on the ground - not with desperation and knees on the floor.