FAITH is deemed to be the major armor of the people. Some religious beliefs and traditional practices are evident that greatly influenced what the people believe in. Most of the stakeholders describe how faith helped them to be resilient. For others, they feel blessed that they were able to survive the chaotic experience even though they lost their assets and material possessions. For other actors, religiosity was never mentioned as an act or behavior that saved them from pandemonium.
For an individual, in particular, the very thought that he is calling his faith into question is not only emotionally draining but physically enervating. He believes that experiencing a disaster was not specifically meant for him, but several things had gone wrong just before a hazard and he was not in the best of health, physically or mentally, to get through the peril. He wonders why God would do this to him when he was so ill-prepared and is having such a hard time trying to cope not only with his illnesses and with the loss of his previous life but also with the loss of his faith. He doesn’t want to lose that faith and any chance he gets, he returns to where he was born, visits one of the shrines to light a candle, and asks the Lord what it is he is supposed to accomplish.
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