
Acts of God should be classified according to the results and to the victims:
1. Sinners. Acts of God serve to punish them, either to kill or not, depending on their level of sins. Some can be burnt to death, some just deprived of their property - anyway, they are all being punished.
2. Good Guys That Remain Alive. Acts of God serve to test their faiths. If they are true believers, they will happily accept whatever God does to them: take their money, kill or maim their loved ones, put them to prison, give them flu or AIDS, whatever.
3. Good Guys That Die. Acts of God serve to get them closer to God. God just missed them so badly that he sends bad guys to burn good guys to death, to hang them, to drown them, to rape them and then cut into pieces, to shoot them, to cut their throats - it is all okay since they are good guys and go straight to heaven. They are lucky to get there, you know.
Take, for example, the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. The cities was burned to ground zero, because of God's wrath. Including infants, dogs, cats, birds, cattle, ladybugs, old respectable ladies, priests and nuns. While the sinners were punished (their children's deaths were also a punishment for the sinners), all the good guys were taken to God, and this is basically considered good.
Still there is a question: what's the point of torturing the martyrs? They were behaving okay; now it was time for God to take them - why not a heart attack, a stroke, a rock from the roof? Why all those troubles? I don't know. Do you?