Also re: Katrina. Everybody who yammers about "God striking down the wicked" with this storm needs to establish some evidence. Did an angel appear to the one righteous man in New Orleans and declare that the city would be destroyed? If this wind is the fruit of Allah's planning, has He come forward to take credit for it? If not, shut the hell up. Sin does not always bring on disaster, and disaster does not always indicate sin. Demonstrate formal or efficient causality, or pipe down.

To declare this hurricane to be some punishment for evil is to underestimate God and man. If your faith is tested (as it should be) by tragedies like Katrina, the answer is not to take the easy way out and declare that "they deserved it". God kills men, women, and children every day. It is our task to try to reconcile that with the idea of a just and loving God.

And that doesn't mean we aren't angry at Him.

UPDATE: Edited for language, now that I am somewhat cooler.