They have foresaken Loki; so Loki has foresaken them.
Classically, in Ancient Greece, it was believed that men had no natural sex drive and women were the ones who drove them to such things, much like how the Victorians believed the exact opposite. Some of the humor in Lysistrata is derived from this.
Actually, over the weekend I was at a meal with a religious group and the “religious leader” said he thought the volcano was punishment for Great Britain. Then he said that of course it’s very unfortunate that so many innocent people were hurt. Then we spoke about all the down to earth stuff about the disruptions in travel and all that. No further mention of the supernatural, IIRC.
Punishment for Great Britain? Jeez, they’re not that bad.
Well they did elect a Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, a LESBIAN, Prime Minister. This must God’s punishment for having the audacity to give a woman power, but a woman doesn’t even like men like God intended. Plus she’s a Social Democrat which is just a fancy smancy way of saying socialist! At this point it’s clear the only logical solution is to throw Madame Jóhanna into the volcano to appease God’s wrath.
Iran and Pat Robertson aside, the only prominent Western person I’ve seen lately
attributing earthquakes and such to punishment meted out by a supernational being
for human violation of some precious tenets of religious belief is . . .
. . . Danny Glover.
“When you touch me, baby, the earth moves!”
I try very, very hard not to think about the kind of stuff my office partner listens to all day…I can’t believe he takes this crap seriously.
In paganism I’ve heard it as from their goddess, not so much in anger, but learning, as mothers sometimes accidentally hurt her children, though they don’t mean it.
Never heard that one, voodoo yes, gays no, but anyhoo.
Basically I’ve heard it explained that man has allowed these doors to destruction to be open by forsaking God. God does not want these things to happen, and would prevent them if we didn’t turn to other gods. Those lesser gods is who the people want to rule over them, so God lets them rule over us, for that is what we requested, which eventually leads to destruction, as that is what those lesser gods do.
One of our local ministers (Free Church or Free Presbyterian or one of the other gloomy ones) spouted someting about living above pits of fire and brimstone and such things. Not specifically blaming or denouncing anything, just a general reminder that hellfire is never far away, so don’t push your luck by hanging your washing out on Sundays, etc.
I wonder if anybody has reserved the domain names OdinHatesFags or God Hates Kynsamurskemmtuns yet.
The Lord requiteth him who liveth on plate boundaries with volcanoes, earthquakes, and cheap geothermal power. Sometimes He sends mixed messages. 
Next quarter’s P&L causes volcanoes? I didn’t even think it was conscious!
I would love to hear the Amish blame someone for this.
The Quakers would be more ironic. 
The Unitarians might be more ironic still, but as some of them don’t believe in it it’s difficult to say.
I’d settle for the Shakers.