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[TomK]

In the meantime, Pele is being an asshole and destroying people's property and lives..

Really? "Pele is being and asshole"

And the funny thing is I suspect you take yourself seriously. Whereas as I read that, at first, I was on the floor convulsing in laughter. Tom, oh dear Tom, I have said, repeatedly throughout this thread, Pele is no more than one cultures way of telling the same thing as is volcanology our's. Same same brah.

And no, the volcano, using any terminology you like, is not an "asshole." But hey, a lot of the people that are foolish enough to build their homes, invest their lives, in a lava flows path are. You can't say because we build on the flank of a volcano the volcano is wrong when it destroys our buildings, can you? Really

That has to be the biggest straw man I have ever seen. I haven't once said that the volcano is wrong. People built homes in a place they knew could be overrun by lava. My argument is that Pele, the goddess, doesn't exist, and if she does and causes volcanic eruptions that destroy people's lives and homes, she's probably quite evil. 

That's a very different argument from the one you are attempting to make up.