CNN:  Rescue workers in India continued to search for more than 500 people missing after flash floods and landslides struck a northern town, state run media reported Sunday.  The death toll from the devastation has risen to 145, according to the official Press Trust of India.  The landslides were triggered late last week after a massive rainfall took sleeping residents by surprise - snapping powerlines, flattening villages and upending vehicles.  Rescuers were slogging through knee-deep mud as they searched for the missing in the City of Leh, the news agency reported.  The town is about 300 miles from Shrinagar.  About 6,000 soldiers were deployed in the relief efforts, Indian army Lt. Col. J.S. Brar said.  Helicopters have also been called in as damaged roads made it difficult to reach the affected areas.  

My Comments:  Just yesterday, elephants rampaged Mysore, India, killing a number of people.  Now they are suffering deadly flash floods and mudslides.  People in India are predominantly Hindu (about 80%) and about 13% are Muslims, then various other religions.  The Hindus worship many Gods and they worship some animals.  There is a temple in Deshnoke, India, to the "rat goddess," where people dine with thousands of rats in the temple.  The Hindus believe that people are reincarnated until all become "one with the universe."  Is God angry with these people?  The Word of God says He is:  Romans 1:18-25  "The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; because that which can be known of God is manifest in them; for God showed it to them.  The invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so they are without excuse.  When they knew God, they glorified Him not as God; neither were they thankful, but became vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened.  Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man and birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.  Therefore, God gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves, who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever.  Amen"  The chapter goes on to explain how God gives them over to a reprobate mind and vile affections.  Of course, these are not exempt from the wrath of God.  I look at the devastating photos above above and I silently ask these suffering people, "Do you really want to worship rats instead of the one and only true God of heaven and earth, the creator of all things?"  Still, I pray for them, that they will open their hearts to God and cry out to Him for mercy.  If they do, He will hear and save, "It will come to pass, that whoever will call on the name of the Lord shall be saved" Acts 2:21.