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Kidder authored "Mountains beyond Mountains" in 2003, about work of Paul Farmer (from Harvard) and his organization Partners in Health, which has a large Haitian-run health organization in Haiti - pretty much intact after the earthquake.

Haiti's tragedy & right-wing obscenities in blaming the victims for God's punishment

Title of review: "A Season in Hell." Kidder authored "Mountains beyond Mountains" in 2003, about work of Paul Farmer (from Harvard) and his organization Partners in Health, which has a large Haitian-run health organization in Haiti - pretty much intact after the earthquake.

New Yorker writer James Wood addresses different theodicies (God punishing or teaching, or self-comforting) in "Between God and a Hard Place," Sunday, 1/24/10

In Haiti, more than half of food distributions go through religious groups like World Vision that have indispensable networks on the ground. [Liberal snobs who sneer at] faith-based organizationstypically give away far less money than evangelicals. They're also less likely to spend vacations volunteering at, say, a school or a clinic in Rwanda.

Out of Tragedy, Questions About God: 4 out of 5 letters (surprising proportion for NYTimes) object to Wood's either/or view of theodicy: if God is omnipotent (& doesn't prevent suffering), he is cruel; if God is loving and good (and only comforts, but doesn't prevent suffering), he is weak and worth ignoring. They affirm the mystery "that God is deeply present in and through the events of the world - often inscrutably, but always powerfully and lovingly - and though we cannot for the life of us see how, even catastrophes include divine presence and power." A Christian notes that fellow believer "might counter [that] suffering and death come to all, even to a God who in his love took on our mortal, vulnerable condition as his own."

This parody is making its way around the Web quickly. Best I can tell it comes from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.