It's that "working in mysterious ways" thing ....
They were praying to the wrong god and the real god got madder and madder.
I saw a post a few years back praising god. He completely destroyed this grandmas house and the only thing left was the 4 walls to her “prayer closet” . God had spared the prayer closet
I wonder if anyone questioned why Grandma was praying in a closet.
Or maybe it just hates churches.
It hates all the world religions.
@ADKSparky Quite possibly, I could include temples and Mosques etc. under churches. But it is well to remember there is no evidence that god does not prefer atheists and agnostics.
While there are a lot of good reasons to think it may do so. After all we don't, tell it what to do all the time, expect special treatment, set up fake gods in its name, use it to fool and exploit others or claim to have special knowledge of it. You got to think if there is a god, then it would be a very foolish god if it did not prefer us.