FLOODS wiping out villages, volcanoes spewing out murderous, destructive lava, earthquakes flattening towns, tsunamis pulverizing whole districts

So many people killed, so much suffering. When all this happens at a time full of unresolved socio-political problems, then people start looking for explanations, and believe that they find them. And because every disaster means destruction, people tend to see a power within them, with links to an allian