What Inquisiton made THIS GUY the authority on anything.......
You know, when Katrina hit and loudmouth fundamentalists started to spout that crap about how the horrific hurricane was God's judgment on the sinful city of New Orleans, I thought nothing would ever make me that angry again. I was wrong.
Pat Robertson topped it with his pronouncement that Haiti suffered a 7.0 earthquake that killed an estimated 50,000 people BECAUSE (note that word) BECAUSE........
the island of Haiti 'made a pact with Satan.'
I ask you, when bad things happen... when catastrophe strikes CHRISTIANS, why is it they say God is testing them or they're suffering like Job, or 'the Lord works in mysterious ways'....but when it happens to other people
it's because they are evil and God is punishing them?
Doesn't this sound a wee bit skewed to you?
The scary part is that these Christian television personalities are watched by millions of frightened tell me what to think sheep-people.. and darned if they don't believe it! And repeat it. Everywhere now, I'm hearing that the Haitian's long history of voodoo and satanism (from which they had to be SCARED STRAIGHT) is the reason why God decided to kill them wholesale. No kidding! Churches this Sunday will preach it and the congregations sitting out front will firmly believe that GOD PUNISHED THE EVIL HAITIANS BECAUSE OF THEIR CLOSE TIES TO THE DEVIL.
How dare they presume to know a motivation for a natural event. The cause of this disaster is directly linked to geology-- not even remotely to theology--- and our existance is, for the most part, random.... and all the frenzied faith in the world will not add one more second to life or prevent hellacious, natural disasters. The only thing we do have control over is our own behavior and attitudes, and we can either embrace and love one another or condemn and finger-point, thereby creating far more dangerous shifting rifts than those in the earth's own tectonic plates.
How dare they continue to deny science. HOW DARE THEY be so unloving as to imply these people caused the earth to rise up and swallow them WHOLE.
(They're lovin' it though.....these disasters and the fear they create...
FEAR is power.)
Fear is MONEY and power. (Just ask the federal government. Ask them how valuable the threat of terrorism is in contolling the flow of BIG MONEY and the populace as a whole.)
This kind of thinking is not religion, it's a holy-rollin' snake show.
(And if that pointed hat fella above is the best that Jesus has to offer, no wonder his fan club is fading)....BUT DON'T FOR A MINUTE BELIEVE IT. He's had some bad promoters is all.
Like Pat Robertson.
The truth is no one knows why these things happen when or where they do... any more than we can say why people who have never smoked end up with lung cancer. The BIG question for fundamentalist Christians everywhere, is this: if death returns us to the Lord, why fear it so much? Why all those prayer chains when someone is seriously ill, and the biggest question of all: why allow such a hateful and presumptuous statement to come out of the mouth of one of your high-profile leaders, and why o why would you believe such a vicious ugly pronouncement?
No, no......let me guess....
the devil made you do it.
Pat Robertson topped it with his pronouncement that Haiti suffered a 7.0 earthquake that killed an estimated 50,000 people BECAUSE (note that word) BECAUSE........
the island of Haiti 'made a pact with Satan.'
I ask you, when bad things happen... when catastrophe strikes CHRISTIANS, why is it they say God is testing them or they're suffering like Job, or 'the Lord works in mysterious ways'....but when it happens to other people
it's because they are evil and God is punishing them?
Doesn't this sound a wee bit skewed to you?
The scary part is that these Christian television personalities are watched by millions of frightened tell me what to think sheep-people.. and darned if they don't believe it! And repeat it. Everywhere now, I'm hearing that the Haitian's long history of voodoo and satanism (from which they had to be SCARED STRAIGHT) is the reason why God decided to kill them wholesale. No kidding! Churches this Sunday will preach it and the congregations sitting out front will firmly believe that GOD PUNISHED THE EVIL HAITIANS BECAUSE OF THEIR CLOSE TIES TO THE DEVIL.
How dare they presume to know a motivation for a natural event. The cause of this disaster is directly linked to geology-- not even remotely to theology--- and our existance is, for the most part, random.... and all the frenzied faith in the world will not add one more second to life or prevent hellacious, natural disasters. The only thing we do have control over is our own behavior and attitudes, and we can either embrace and love one another or condemn and finger-point, thereby creating far more dangerous shifting rifts than those in the earth's own tectonic plates.
How dare they continue to deny science. HOW DARE THEY be so unloving as to imply these people caused the earth to rise up and swallow them WHOLE.
(They're lovin' it though.....these disasters and the fear they create...
FEAR is power.)
Fear is MONEY and power. (Just ask the federal government. Ask them how valuable the threat of terrorism is in contolling the flow of BIG MONEY and the populace as a whole.)
This kind of thinking is not religion, it's a holy-rollin' snake show.
(And if that pointed hat fella above is the best that Jesus has to offer, no wonder his fan club is fading)....BUT DON'T FOR A MINUTE BELIEVE IT. He's had some bad promoters is all.
Like Pat Robertson.
The truth is no one knows why these things happen when or where they do... any more than we can say why people who have never smoked end up with lung cancer. The BIG question for fundamentalist Christians everywhere, is this: if death returns us to the Lord, why fear it so much? Why all those prayer chains when someone is seriously ill, and the biggest question of all: why allow such a hateful and presumptuous statement to come out of the mouth of one of your high-profile leaders, and why o why would you believe such a vicious ugly pronouncement?
No, no......let me guess....
the devil made you do it.
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