Mercy! No! How! Why!

God is often maligned and castigated for causing or having allowed catastrophic disasters and calamities to occur that have claimed untold collateral damage as well as the tragic loss of human life resulting from the aftermath of those natural and human caused catastrophes and disasters. Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. (Job 5:6-7)