Do you believe in chance and probability? What are the chances that christian and jewish settlements would manage to not be at major faultlines? Why would such ideologies not take root there? Why would places like communist Cuba be hit hardest by hurricanes? Why would muslim/buddist/hindu/Atheist countries like Indonesia, India, Cuba, etc...constantly be marred by natural catastrophe...only to have the reprocussions of the natural disasters disapate before they can effect neighboring areas?
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Hey, wanderphilos, ever heard of this magical and wonderous place called California (or the entire West Coast for that matter?) There are both Christian and Jewish "settlements" there that are right on the San Andreas Fault Line, one of the worlds largest and active earthquake centers there is.
Perhaps a quick Google search would make you look less stupid in the future.
So, the Spanish missions in California, land o' faults, all were founded by those special non-christian Catholics?
Florida often gets savaged by hurricanes. There are no Christians in Florida? Even in St. Augustine?
What were the chances? Um... pretty big. Seeing as...y'know... people that live on major faultlines..
What is it that happens to them...?
Oh right. They die.
As for Cuba, has you ever considerred government is a response to the environment, not environment a response to government? Besides, wouldn't a god perfer a monarchy over a democracy?
And what about Katrina? If America is the "christian country" why the hell is New Orleans so screwed? What about the California area? Florida? Those volcanos?
Ooh! How about those feudalistic european christian countries back when the Black Plauge started.
Hell, if we're juding validity of religion based on natural disasters, Greeks were probably the most right then. I mean, does anyone remember natural disasters with them?
Yep, the total lack of hurricanes, earthquakes, vulcanos and several other major disaster sources means that God loves euthanasie, abortion, gay marriage, legalized drugs and tax paying hookers.
Well, that or he just likes cheese, tulips, wooden shoes and windmills.
Personally I don't believe in chance and probability. I believe that an all-knowing, all-powerful sky fairy has written the future until the end of time and there is no way to alter it.
Oh, no wait, that's a bunch of crap too.
More pertinantly, why is it he insists his followers be retarded, gullible pieces of shit? Sometimes a causal pre-requisite can give important clues.
Please don't ever do engineering if you are unable to tell the difference between an earthquake proof building on giant bearings and an adobe mud hut! If it falls down, don't blame God - YOU FUCKED UP!
<< Why would places like communist Cuba be hit hardest by hurricanes? >>
I'm going to take a wild guess here and say that maybe it's because it's in the Caribbean, where hurricanes are usually found!
And as others pointed out here, it's certainly not just the "evil" or "ungodly" places that get slammed by natural disasters -- as if EVERYONE in a given city or state or country could be considered evil or ungodly in the first place!
~David D.G.
For the record, since no one has mentioned tornadoes yet, I'd like to remind people to ponder why it is that most of the tornadoes in the U.S. hit the "bible belt". Which assuredly affect many devout christians, regardless of what "no true scotsman" wanderphilos might have made in his very next quoted post.
Jaded_Revenge...
Especially as he hasn't included things like drought or fire? Of course, the evil Australians teach their chidren sex ed, religious/cultural tolerance and that other great obscenity, science.
Let me see. Florida is half Christian(many Catholics)and Jewish. Hurricans and storms. Same with tornadoes in Kansas and the west states(fundies plenty). In Spain, Catholic country, drought and let´s not count Phillipines, which is a Catholic country and Australia. If we add Hurrican Mitch in the Caribbean, who is Catholic area, am I missing something?(and Katrina?)
Places like California, Alaska (Sarah Palin country), Mexico, Central America, the West coast of South America, and Israel. Yes, the Jordan Valley, where JC himself preached, is the lowest place on earth for a reason. It's a rift valley, part of the largest rift valley in the world, goimg down through the Red Sea to the East African Great Lakes.
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"Why would muslim/buddist/hindu/Atheist countries like Indonesia, India, Cuba, etc...constantly be marred by natural catastrophe...only to have the reprocussions of the natural disasters disapate before they can effect neighboring areas"
...but not the very pro-LGBT/abortion, secular, nay, Atheist UK? Nope, no natural disasters for us ! Why is this? Either (emphasis added):
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'God is British - because we never get any fucking earthquakes, tornadoes or hurricanes in Britain. '
'We don't have earthquakes in Britain, because we don't deserve 'em! '
-Al Murray (Pub Landlord)
OR :
Shit happens (except for we Brits in our meteorologically temperate & geologically stable location, geographically), and God doesn't fucking exist .
Choose one, cuntbrain fundie.
I have family in the Midwest, and I have spent more than one afternoon in a basement while a tornado raged through the area. I have handled hailstones the size of golf balls. I have seen snow packed so high that cars tied bicycle flags to their antennas to be visible at intersections.
Either the Heartland is full of devil-worshippers or you're just full of shit.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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