God - What makes you worth worshipping?

The front page of the sun today (so hardly a reliable source of information) shows that the most important thing happening anywhere in the world right now, more important than Korean tensions, more than the Syrian uprising, is that god saved a footballer from a heart attack while doctors were "baffled". There are two things that upset me about this. The first is that those doctors are the only reason he is alive and yet they are portrayed as incompetent fools.
However there is an issue that I wish to address more, as most people are aware how intelligent and valued doctors are, and that is that god protected him. This means that the world is watched over by an interventionist god, an undeniably good thing. However this god does not use it's power to intervene in wars, famine or plagues. Nor does it reveal itself to the world and address humanity to end religious disputes by giving us all the facts. No, the most important thing in the world to god is the health of one footballer.
So I ask you this, if god exists and is willing to intervene in treatable medical issues, but not large scale disasters, does this god deserve your praise and respect? Or should they be held to account for their actions, for caring for one footballer while ignoring thousands of starving children? You may believe in god, or you may not, but I wonder, god has infinite power, and is reported to willingly intervene in human lives, so why is there so much suffering of innocents?
A further question on this issue was raised to me today. If god is all powerful, and has a plan for everyone, why do you pray to him to assist the ill/injured? Surely god caused or at least permitted them to fall ill to start with? This adds further strength to my belief that god has no right to demand the affection of the humans who lives he seems to delight in toying with. To paraphrase a friend of mine, surely when praying for god to help someone all you're really doing is begging for mercy?

Syria

Contrary to what the name suggests I'm not going to talk about what's going on in Syria, I'm instead focusing on what is being done about Syria. You see I believe it was Kofi Annan who described the situation as "unacceptable" however, it is being accepted. Disagreeing with a course of action but letting it happen is accepting it, you have to actually intervene if you find something unacceptable.
We have seen this far to often recently, all across the middle east political uprisings have given corrupt leaders the chance to utilize means that should be unacceptable, but the only way western governments are willing to intervene is with a stern word.
Politicians need to realize that this isn't like every other political issue, they cant sit on the fence until the issue is resolved and then sit there pretending they supported the victor all along. People are dying and those in power need to pick a side and support it from the outset. In the case of Syria I believe that the opposition should be assisted in the strongest non invasive way possible until such a time that a stable democratic government is formed.
In most cases the political game is played with tax money and political power, and it can cause massive damage. When it is the entire future of a country at stake there is no room for games, action has to be taken.

Internet Tracking, the Death of Privacy

Before I start I would just like to thank the conservative government for getting my blog out of its downward spiral and back to its original angry roots. I'm currently watching BBC news and noticing that two of the biggest stories seem to be the polar opposites of each other. Today James Murdoch has stepped down from his post as head of BSkyB, as a result of the phone hacking scandal. Put simply, monitoring people’s activities without their permission has lost him his job. The other story is that the government are pushing forward with their attempts to pass a law that would allow them to monitor any activity that anyone makes on the internet in Britain. The exact thing that has begun to break down the Murdoch empire is not only about to become legal but it will become mandatory law. Benjamin Franklin once said "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." The government wish to remove the right to privacy to attempt to prevent cyber-terrorism. However I am almost certain that passing this law will increase the activities of many groups such as anonymous. The people this law aims to target will easily avoid it and will see it as provocation. This is an entirely new kind of warfare but the government are trying to fight it using 19th century methods, they are marching into unknown territory and drawing their own battle lines. These lines will be crossed and ignored and the only people to suffer as a result will be us, the innocent public.