Re: if your family was wiped out would you move closer or away from religion?
I wish I could answer that, I don’t get emails from Him 
. Anyway, as you have mentioned in your earlier posts and very likely have observed what kind of “Muslims” exist now, we have been at a very low state in terms of faith, a fairly big majority is Muslim by birth and only carry their Muslim names, how many of us are really practising? Its us who have put ourselves in a “testing” situation really, if an earthquake doesn’t kill Muslims then we will kill each other in name of Shia-Sunni conflict. We really can’t “complain” about how many tests we have to go thru.