Having Your Godly Cake and Eating It Too!
Actually you just gotta love the win-win scenario that the loony tunes extreme religious right-wingers have endlessly spouted off. If a (not so) natural disaster hits and causes death and destruction on a massive scale, well that’s obviously just God’s wrath, judgment and punishment, etc. on sinful humans. If on the other hand, said potentially disastrous event spares all from death and destruction, well that’s obviously God’s mercy. As I said, they’ve constructed a win-win scenario. Every eventually is covered by some Godly trait and thus they can always crow and say “my God done that”.
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This invisible friend of theirs can do no wrong. At least Santa gets a mouthful if the presents aren't up to scratch.
Happyheretic
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Sep 26, 2018
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@johnprytz
Indeed, and the "omni god " is a self defeating premise. Can god create a rock that he cannot lift.
What's worse is if a plane crashes into a mountain and there are 223 deaths and one survivor it will immediately be taken up as a miracle that the one person survived rather than the obvious which is, what about those other 223 folks that died. It was really funny in Oklahoma when Wolf Blitzer asked that homeowner if she thanked god for saving her home when all her neighbor's homes were destroyed and she said, no I'm an atheist.
gearl
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Sep 26, 2018
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It happens every time. Politicians and evangelicals love to point out natural disasters in red states as being God's punishment for the evil ways of those people. They then remain conspicuously silent when the Bible Belt states see massive destruction from floods and natural disasters (now happening on an annual basis but there is "no climate change" ).
OCJoe
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Sep 26, 2018
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