God is not angry with Cape Town, He is angry with Jesus.
For those who read this and do not yet know, the Western Cape, South Africa, is going through a terrible drought at the moment. Cape Town is especially vulnerable as "Day Zero" (the day when water levels are so low that water supply to suburban areas will be cut off) is less than two months away. It really is a crisis influencing many. People are scared, panicked. So yesterday I read an interesting headline to an article that a friend posted on Facebook. It's about the famous farmer and evangelist, Angus Buchan, who apparently said that God is angry with the people of Cape Town and that it will rain when they repent. Harsh. My knee-jerk reaction was, of course, anger at these remarks. How can a merciful God be angry with Cape Town? How can a well-known and respected Christian evangelist make such claims? Isn't it irresponsible of him to make statements like that? Surely this isn't God's character at all! Jesus said that...