Jim Stillman
Randy Inman
M-KazIs it a Christian “value” to disrupt Democrat Conventions?
August 12th 2008 21:04
There are serious problems and much need and unhappiness in the world. To many sincere and good people, prayer is effective in seeking help and solace from the Deity. I remember one of the thoughts of Thornton Wilder in the Bridge of San Luis Rey regarding the role of God in everyday life.
One thing that I have noticed is the proclivity of some – not all, certainly, but many – preachers to either call upon God to wreck havoc on those perceived to be not in line with their beliefs or to assume that God has brought down His wrath upon large population centers, punishing everyone in the neighborhood!
There are many examples. A few years ago the late Jerry Farwell said that
Others have suggested that Hurricane Katrina was another example of God’s punishment for evil.
Pat Robinson has gone even further. After Orlando, Florida, city officials voted in 1998 to fly rainbow flags from city lampposts during a “Gay Pride” event at Disney World, Robertson warned the city:
Robertson claimed that his prayers to God helped steer Hurricane Gloria in 1985 and Hurricane Felix in 1995 away from Hampton Roads, Virginia, the headquarters of Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network.
This sort of “pray to destroy one’s enemies” continues. The following is from Stewart Shepard, of James Dobson’s Focus on the Family, in which he asks supporters to send God prayers so that Barack Obama’s Democratic Convention speech at Mile High Stadium in Denver would be washed out with “rains of biblical proportion.”
Right now there are serious drought conditions in the south-eastern United States. Wildfires in our far western states could be lessened by rain of “biblical proportion”.
Does your God really have time to dump a deluge on Senator Obama? Is the possibility of a GOP loss enough to torment the heavens?
God forbid.
Some say that we shall never know and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer day, and some say, on the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God
One thing that I have noticed is the proclivity of some – not all, certainly, but many – preachers to either call upon God to wreck havoc on those perceived to be not in line with their beliefs or to assume that God has brought down His wrath upon large population centers, punishing everyone in the neighborhood!
There are many examples. A few years ago the late Jerry Farwell said that
“AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
Others have suggested that Hurricane Katrina was another example of God’s punishment for evil.
Pat Robinson has gone even further. After Orlando, Florida, city officials voted in 1998 to fly rainbow flags from city lampposts during a “Gay Pride” event at Disney World, Robertson warned the city:
"I don't think I'd be waving those flags in God's face if I were you. ... [A] condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor."
Robertson claimed that his prayers to God helped steer Hurricane Gloria in 1985 and Hurricane Felix in 1995 away from Hampton Roads, Virginia, the headquarters of Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network.
This sort of “pray to destroy one’s enemies” continues. The following is from Stewart Shepard, of James Dobson’s Focus on the Family, in which he asks supporters to send God prayers so that Barack Obama’s Democratic Convention speech at Mile High Stadium in Denver would be washed out with “rains of biblical proportion.”
Right now there are serious drought conditions in the south-eastern United States. Wildfires in our far western states could be lessened by rain of “biblical proportion”.
Does your God really have time to dump a deluge on Senator Obama? Is the possibility of a GOP loss enough to torment the heavens?
God forbid.
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