Theodore Steinberg Quotes on God (3 Quotes)

The reason that these congressional relief measures are always done as supplemental appropriations is the idea that these are unpredictable acts of God ... we need to overcome our collective denial about natural disaster and we need to budget for it and prepare for it, and if we did, we'd have a more civil and just society.

As Theodore Steinberg argues, God is getting a bum rap. This is an unnatural disaster if ever there was one, not an act of God, ... If the potential for mass death and destruction from extreme weather existed anywhere in the U.S., it existed in New Orleans.

The point that has to be made is that national disasters are, in the aggregate, predictable, and we can budget for them, ... Acts of God The Unnatural History of Natural Disasters in America.