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Why insurance and legal language about disasters as 'acts of God' can feel spiritually offensive

The insurance adjuster keeps using the phrase 'act of God' about the hail damage and I want to ask him what kind of God he thinks would throw ice balls at people's houses.

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Bureaucratic language can wound by forcing theological interpretations onto random suffering.

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