Record -breaking floods flooded Texas, immersed houses, moved families, kill at least 100 people and cause widespread evacuations.
Natural disasters often shake our deepest beliefs. It is the only person to scream and ask why a loving God would allow so much untringing suffering. Especially when it comes, not due to human cruelty and free will, but from the forces of creation itself.
But paradoxically, it is the same belief that many people trust in the aftermath. To be far from a stool, faith often becomes a critical lifeline that helps people to cope, repair and rebuild it.
Parents, students, school faculties and members of the community come together in Sinclair Elementary for a wake in honor of the missing student Greta Toranzo, who attended Camp Mystic and one of the missing was after catastrophic floods, on Saturday, July 5, 2025 in Houston. (Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via Getty images)
Online others shift the blame for politics. During the flood, a version of the AI Chatbot by Elon Musk blamed the budget reductions to Noaa for the rising death toll. Somehow on the energy policy of Texas or ‘Revenge’ Mother Nature’s Revenge. ”
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These reactions reflect old religious debt – only with new villains. The same fire and heavy tone. The same absence of comfort. It can offer indignation, but it rarely offers comfort. And it certainly does not help the displaced rebuilding.
Science supports this. A study of survivors from the Tsunami from the Indian Ocean from 2004 showed that “religious faith and practices” and “cultural traditions” have considerably helped emotional recovery. In fact, the loss of faith itself was linked deteriorate trauma.
As the researchers concluded, the spiritual framework left individuals away without a “culturally rooted means of understanding” – worse their suffering instead of illuminating it.
I have seen this up close. My brother Asher is a rabbi from Chabad on the island of St. Thomas. During hurricane Irma he sheltered in a medical building with his children when 185 km / h winded telephone poles and threw trees like Tumbleweed. A metal roof of a nearby resort collapsed in their house. According to all reports it was apocalyptic.
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They survived. But much of the infrastructure of the island did not. He spent days offering food, generators and spiritual support to the displaced persons. And time and time again he saw the same: not only as comfort, but as fuel. A power that people continue, even when everything else is washed away.
This is not unique. After hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, Dorian, Ida, Ian and now the newest floods in Texas, faith -based organizations are often the first on site. Groups such as the United Methodist Church, the Southern Baptist Convention, various Catholic charities of Southeast -Texas and the Chabad Disaster reliefs not only pray, mobilize them.
USA Today once described these religious groups correctly as “integral partners in state and federal disaster relief efforts”.
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That does not mean that you need religion to deal with trauma. Non-religious people find strength in community, love and meaning too. But Faith offers a separate framework – a spiritual map that helps people find direction when the site has suddenly collapsed. For some, belief in a higher purpose can be the difference between despair and resilience.
While Texans confront this catastrophe, many will not draw strength out of indignation or guilt, but of faith. We will never understand why – but faith gives us the tools to tolerate it. Politics points fingers. Faith extends a hand.
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