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The case for religious causes of natural disasters gathers pace:

The head of Georgia’s Orthodox church, Patriarch Ilia II, said the flood was punishment for the zoo being built by the country’s former communist rulers. “They ordered that all the crosses and bells in churches be melted down and the money used to build the zoo,” he said. “I am very sorry that Georgians fell so that a zoo was built at the expense of destroyed churches.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/14/georgia-floods-deaths-feared-zoo-animals-on-loose