It is because of sin that it don't rain enough and we have a drought, and because it rains too much and we have floods.
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Right, Lord Summersisle. And it's nothing at all to do with global warming, insufficient reservoir planning and construction, deforestation and urbanisation leading to decreased water retention per unit area, ever increasing water consumption and wastage per person, settling areas below the waterline or next to volcanoes or faultlines, unsustainable agricultural expansion based on groundwater extraction, and all the other myriad forms of shortsighted, selfish, knee-jerk human arrogance and idiocy we see around us every fucking day. Actually, if you count most of the above actions as "sin", then maybe there is a connection after all but, without qualification, I assume by "sin" you instead mean the more popular scapegoats such as homosexuality, agnosticism, reading and discussing books by people like Darwin, divorce, abortion, women acting as men's equals, independent thought and people eating shellfish - you know, stuff so much more directly connected to meteorological phenomena.
Talk about religion relying on circular logic, it seems the whole thing goes in circles.THE RAIN DANCE PRINCIPLE: If you do a silly dance for long enough, it will rain. You can then claim you pleased the Gods and take your choice of virgins.
Andy, believing El made it rain is how you're ridiculously superstitious, primitive mythology began. Everything since then has been crude and clumsy addition after addition. Most of which were stolen from other mythologies. Now we know all about climate your God should be banished into irrelevance. LET IT GO!!!
Sheeesh that's almost as egocentric as the druids and other religions carefully tracking the sun every year and marking it with stones, and at it's southernmost point (the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere) having a big party or maybe even a sacrifice to make the sun start tracking back Northward.
@CousinTed
Yes, and sin poisoned our crops, soured our milk and made our children fat and ugly.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and lightning is caused by Zeus, and thunder is caused by Thor. Blah blah blah.
Soooo... The years leading up to the Tri-State Tornado (longest lived, longest path, and deadliest tornado in history) were more sinful than a great number after? Prior to 1925 people were sinning so much that God sent down a cloud of death that was up to three fucking miles wide? This monster whiped about a dozen towns off the map. They were no more. This fucker, if corrected for inflation, would be more expensive than any other tornado.
"Soooo... The years leading up to the Tri-State Tornado (longest lived, longest path, and deadliest tornado in history) were more sinful than a great number after?"
@ALIEN8
It's the declining numbers of pirates causing these things, you fool. Only the FSM can save you!
Well, that's a bit archaic, magic/mythic, don't you think? But hey, I guess it could make sense, so I better stop shaking my rain stick, and maybe tomorrow will be sunny.
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