In God's hands?

The morning TV news just addressed the floods in Rapid City, Iowa.
Commenting on it, the announcer concluded,"Rapid City is now in the
hands of God". And what about yesterday? I know what he meant but I am
reminded of what we have been commmenting on recently: God is respons-
ible for everything- good and bad; it's his "will". There's nothing you
can do about it. Were the people of Rapid City in their OWN hands before
the floods came? In his "The Revolt Of The Masses" (1930) Ortega y Gasset
says: "There is no question concerning public life, in which he (the
"mass" man) does not intervene, blind and deaf as he is, imposing his
'opinions'." Today, everyone has an opinion. No matter how stupid- he's
"entitled". A guy with a news announcer's job is a "theologian"- like
everyone else. Who/what's his authority? And how much is this a result of
the democratization of religion? Under Protestantism Christianity has
broken down into, what someone has called "privatism": a religion of
individual pieces. Everyone is guaranteed his very own Bible- and his
very own theology (opinion).