From Slate.com

Don’t Pray for Oklahoma

Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters.

Thanking the Lord for deliverance just doesn’t make any sense. Any God powerful and attentive enough to save survivors’ lives should also be powerful and attentive enough to stop the catastrophe in the first place. It’s insulting, futile, and distracting from the reality of natural disasters to inject your god into a calamity like Oklahoma's.

And the always brilliant Tom Tomorrow on the same topic.

Wolf, theologian

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On a different note, here are some more Oita prefecture links:
Kamioita has a number of good pictures that are worth checking out.
Kamioita's take on Hita here (my take here)
Kamioita's take on Saiki here (and my take here)
And Kamioita on Usuki here and here (me here)