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.
It is because of sin that the wind blows too hard in hurricanes and tornadoes.
It is because of sin that fires get out of hand.
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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.
I thought that was witches? Oh well, one superstition is as good as another I suppose.
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.
Or how about when Krakatoa blew up with such ferocity it was audible three THOUSAND miles away? An explosion so violent that the shockwave circled the entire Earth seven times? One that was the loudest sound ever heard? That was back in 1883.
Or let's jump back to the most planet fucking explosion in history. Tambora. 1815. It caused weather patterns to be drastically altered across the entire planet for years. 1816 was known as The Year Without a Summer. The average temprature for that summer was twenty motherfucking degrees lower. An incalculable number of people died due to famine. Was this because people were sinning far more then than they are now? I'd say that Tambora was possibly the deadliest natural disaster in history, taking into account the famine that ensued.
230 million years ago. The largest mass extinction. Ever. A meteorite of some sort struck the Earth (it is believed to have hit Antarctica, as there's a huge fucking crater beneath the ice) and so thoroughly screwed the enviroment over that almost everything died. Were thos life forms sinning horribly?
Global climate change is part of a planet's natural life span. It isn't "God's wrath" or some such.
"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?"
Actually, the deadliest tornado struck Shaturia, Bangladesh, in 1989; 1,300 people were killed. Now, I'm sure our scientician up the top would blame it on most Bangladeshis not being xians, but you'd think that a cyclone that killed 10,000 people there in 1985, and another cyclone that killed 500,000 people maybe more in 1970, would be punishment enough?
@ALIEN8
It's the declining numbers of pirates causing these things, you fool. Only the FSM can save you!
RAmen!
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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