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Richard Stallman safe after Peru earthquake

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False alarm. He's been active on the emacs-devel mailing list for the past three days.

This also just in:

SwellJoe safe after Peru earthquake.

Paris Hilton safe after Peru earthquake.

About 6 billion people I don't know safe after Peru earthquake.

Anybody else think this is an utter waste of a headline/link? Everyone except the people injured or lost in the Peru earthquake is safe after the earthquake. We don't need a headline about every single one of them. The silly rumor about isn't news, and the fact that it was a rumor is certainly now news.

But maybe I'm just grouchy because I'm coming down with yet another summer cold (God must have smote me because of my atheism).

"Wikinews has learned that Richard Stallman, the founder of the GNU Project, ->is not<- missing in Peru after a massive 8.0 earthquake struck the country on August 15."

It's been changed back and forth, including the title...

Why do natural disasters always strike highly religious areas? The bible belt is devastated by tornadoes and hurricanes every year. Don't they wonder why us liberal godless heathens on the coasts aren't feeling some divine wrath, too?

Maybe it's the other way around. Those areas are religious because they have more natural disasters. Things that are out of their control.

That's a very strange opinion.

Would somebody care to explain to me what's wrong with my comment? I'll admit it's short. Is there something more fundamentally wrong? Feeding trolls?

Frankly, a belief that natural disasters only strike highly religious areas is quite strange, and I see no evidence for it. As Goladus pointed out, San Francisco gets earthquakes; that was also the first thing I thought of. But is there any part of the planet that doesn't suffer from natural disasters? I don't think anybody could make the original assertion without realizing these problems, and my explanation shouldn't be needed. If I could, I would have downmodded it.

heh, here in michigan we get um, snow, the occasional freezing rain. But we're pretty much eventless (somehow attributable to the water around us i think)

Maybe it's God's way of telling us, "You Idiots, I'm not real."

Something like 85% of the world is religious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Worldwide_percentage_of_A...

    non-religious: 11.92%
    atheist:  2.35%

For every earthquake in San Francisco it seems reasonable to expect at least 6 or 7 in other parts of the world.

I downmodded because I'd rather this forum not be burdened with trite religion-bashing posts.

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