tragedy n 1. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune.

Here's what I don't get: how can anybody who believes in an omnipotent and omni-benevolent God also believe in tragedy? If God is all-powerful then all things that occur are by God's will, and if God is all-good then all things the occur must be Good or else God wouldn't have allowed them to come about. So nothing that occurs can be classified as misfortune, by definition.

The tsunami disaster that hit southeast Asia has been a source of much religious speculation and chitter-chatter, most of which makes absolutely no sense if you accept the belief in an all-powerful and all-good diety. If God is Good then the deaths and destruction were all Good, and we should be praising Him for bringing these blessings to us. How come God-believers thank God when He does things they like, but they won't thank him for this tsunami just because it wasn't what they personally wanted for Christmas? Isn't that awfully selfish, to only thank God for the blessings we like but to ignore all the other blessings He sends us (such as the tsunami)?