Perhaps God misunderstood WHICH convention
... seems like the good Christian folks at Focus on the Family were praying for rain to disrupt a big political convention. Just not the one that is being disrupted.
Is it just me, or is this campaign snake-bit?
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posted by Clemens @ 10:48 PM
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I have wondered if anyone in the ridiculously religious right—besides me, if I be so classifiable, although I fancy myself as merely "religious", center-right, and "ridiculous" without combining the three—would look upon Gustav as an Act of God and wonder why the timing turned out the way it did. For all their talk about how God will smite their enemies for harboring a mote in their eyes, they never notice the beam in their own eyes even after God smites them in the very manner they suggest to him. This occurs repeatedly.
After a few seconds watching that video, I couldn't help but close the window in disgust. Every time one of these guys acts like he wishes a natural disaster would strike in one place, it strikes a little closer to home instead. Ten years ago Pat Robertson warned Orlando, FL about their gay parades and being in the path of hurricanes; not long after, Hurricane Bonnie smashed Virginia Beach, Robertson's home base. Few houses in my parents' neighborhoods escaped damage. Were I a meaner man than I am, I would joke that the coincidence constituted irrefutable proof that God exists: he smote Robertson, what more proof could one possibly need? Of course, this had absolutely zero effect on Robertson's obsession with warning other people about the consequences of their sins.
That sad, I would rather not use an Act of God as a cudgel to beat on anyone: Too many people who have nothing to do with these stupid wars are affected. They don't deserve it. And I am quite turned off by how some in the irreligious left have been doing the same ever since Katrina.
Good point - you'd think that anyone who thought that God used the weather to punish people might wonder what was going on. Especially since the weather for Obama's big night out was so perfect. But ...
It's funny - now that you mention it - but we seem to use the term 'religious right' to mean the Protestant religious right. Catholics for some reason just don't seem like the Pat Robertson type. Maybe having a uniformed hierarchy has its advantages. Not to mention a genuine scholar as Pope.
Katrina, though, I would think is a different category disaster. Much of the problem was caused by ineptitude (local and Federal both) - I don't think we need to try to pin this on God.
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