RE: In a world without God...
June 7, 2013 at 2:23 pm
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2013 at 2:25 pm by Doubting Thomas.)
(June 7, 2013 at 2:01 pm)Drich Wrote:(June 7, 2013 at 1:08 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: I guess my question is why when a hurricane hits New Orleans or an earthquake hits San Francisco, it's God's divine punishment for evil people, but when tornadoes level bible belt communities, they're just natural disasters?If you were determined you could find some dbag saying that every unfavoriable natural occourance is God punishing someone...
You don't have to go as far as Fred Phelps to find people saying that. I think even Pat Robertson claimed that Katrina was retribution for the people of New Orleans' sinful ways and that it was because of tolerance of homosexuality. Just read fstdt.com once in a while and you'll see all sorts of comments like that. Last time there was an earthquake in California fundies were claiming that it was God's punishment.
Yet tornadoes continue to strike Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri which are heavily Christian bible belt areas, yet no Christians (aside from the WBC douchebags) seem to be claiming that this is also God's divine punishment. No, people there want to give thanks to God for sparing their lives, even though everything they own was destroyed along with their community.
Quote:find Book Chapter and verse that says he will do this.
All I'd have to do is find one of the many verses which say that God will spill his wrath upon the evil for their iniquity. The entire Old Testament is, well, a testament for the idea of a vengeful, wrathful God.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
