I saw on the news that there are some 400 fires in Northern California. It's interesting that many of these fires were sparked by lightning around the time that gay marriages began. It's also interesting that these fires are only in the northern part of the state where the Capital and Supreme Court are that overturned the ban on gay marriage.
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it's summer, it's dry, it happens ever freakin' year, it's not god's wrath, get over it.
"It's interesting that many of these fires were sparked by lightning around the time that gay marriages began. It's also interesting that these fires are only in the northern part of the state where the Capital and Supreme Court are that overturned the ban on gay marriage."
Wouldn't it be more fitting of your god's character to have just killed all the gays at the same time or utterly destroyed the Capitol or Supreme Court buildings in a pillar of fire and brimstone rather than piss about with fires that, surprisingly, can be confused for a naturally occurring event?
Your god appears to be able to do nothing more than parlor tricks.
In your tedious rant, you forgot to mention, or were unaware, that many countries have allowed gay marriages and legal partnerships for years with no negative consequences. Unfortunately, you probably lack sufficient knowledge of geography to even find these countries on a globe or name their capitals, so perhaps our demands upon you are excessive...
What's really funny is how so many of the fires are occurring in traditionally conservative areas of the state. For example, to my knowledge there have been no grass fires in San Francisco.
Also, most years the places where the fires get quickly out of control are the most conservative areas that didn't want to tax themselves to pay for more fire equipment.
I suppose last year's fires down in the southern part of the state were a punishment for what, exactly? Oh, wait, I remember. "God tests my faith, but he punishes you."
How old is this twat?
If he/she doesn't remember fires for the past 20 years, I am guessing 12-14 years old.
But did they take a 30 second and type +"california" +"wildfires" +"history" into google?
Of course not!
@ The Watcher: Ah! The Dead Milkmen in their song "Stuart" were right.
"If you look at the soil around any large US city where there's a big undeground homosexual population - Des Moines, Iowa, perfect example - "
I live in Morgan Hill, which is in Northern California a hair south of San Jose.
We did have a freak lightning storm pass through our fair city this last weekend, which dropped almost no rain. It was riding on a cold front that swept through on the tail of some extremely hot weather.
The heat wave followed by the sudden thunderstorm did produce a pretty nasty combination for forest fires.
However, I gotta say, if this was God's way of showing his disapproval for gay marriage, he's got a piss-poor way of showing it. None of those forest fires was anywhere near a "notorious gay community" like San Francisco, nor were any of them near the state's capital of Sacramento.
Unless the state Supreme Court decided to meet in the woods, God missed again. Both the state capital building in Sacramento and the state supreme court in San Francisco are decidedly intact, and neither one is anywhere close to a lightning-sparked fire.
I can report that here in Sacramento, our air quality does suck mightily with all the smoke blowing in. Perhaps God has decided to smite old people with emphysema and little kids with asthma.
-LM, Northern California Correspondent.
BWHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAAHAHA! *gasps for air* BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA.
Ok, your Rapture Ready Retard, how do you explain all those OTHER brush fires started by lightning?
1) There are always wildfires at around this time of year, and the majority of those are started by lightning. California is always on fire, for them to go a year without burning would be a far better sign of god.
2) Gay marriage has been legal in a number of different countries for a while now, including my own, Canada. It's also been legal in Massachusetts for several years. None of these places are being smited... so what makes northern California so special?
3) Isn't San Fransisco -- the gayest city in North America -- located in the southern part of the state? And Hollywood, the film industry's mecca, supposedly drives this "gay agenda" you people keep yapping about, is also located in the southern part of the state. So, shouldn't God's wrath be extending all the way down there as well, if he's so pissed off about homosexuals?
Yes, because we all know that this is all that god is capable of these days. Where he used to flood the world and rain sulfur, now he uses forest fires, almost as if he couldn't just snap his fingers and make the problem disappear. What a failure of a god you're worshiping.
I saw on the news that there are some 9 or 10 fundamentalist Baptist churches in Louisiana destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. It's interesting that this flooding happened around the time that gay parades were to begin. It's also interesting that these floods were only in the part of the city where the fundies live, and not where the gays held their parades. Maybe God doesn't have a problem with gays; He just doesn't like hate-filled bigots.
Gasp! Natural fire ecology is taking its course! Surely, the end times!
(Fires are a natural part of a healthy ecosystem, but humans have held it back and have given it a lot of extra fuel to burn through. That is why there are so many fires, and why they're so big. [/used to be on a fire crew])
Why hasn't Massachusetts had a repeat of:
On the plus-ish side the moderators did slap this guy around a little for violating terms of use
"Folks, enough with the judgments from God. Refer to board rules, please.
[Rule 27] No Speculations on the Causes of Natural Disasters onto people or cities as being Judgments from God"
It's even more interesting that California has epic wildfires literally every year.
In other news, the sun set today. Religious wingnuts think gays are to blame.
Watching these dumbass fundies try to make a logical connection is like watching a puppy try to run a wet tile floor. It's funny and sad at the same time, watching them bang their heads on the wall over, and over, and over ...
Once again, there's never been forest fires in California before?
Shit, wait till the pine beetle gets a foothold in Washington. I think we're going to lose about 1/3 of BC this year.
It's also interesting how, when Katrina hit New Orleans, the French Quarter of the city was one of the least worst affected areas.
What can I say, God's aim was obviously a little off that day </sarcasm>.
Personally, lightning has always made me feel very happy. Same with fire.
OMG....
I'M A CHILD OF THE BLOOD GOD!
HALP!
I watched the virga rainclouds Saturday afternoon from a vantage point SE of Sac, and Sunday morning I drove west into thick smoke. No, the fires are between Frisco [they hate that name] and Sac. Both targets missed.
BTW, there are earthquakes in Calif. every day, but being god-sent, they are too wimpy to be felt except by sensitive seismometers.
From personal experience I know N. Cali is one of areas of Cali most heavily populated by fundamentalist Christians... Or at least when I walk down the street it sounds that way. For certain N. California is very conservative.
God must have some really, really bad aim, couldn't possibly be omnipotent. Anyway, isn't it written in that book of yours somewhere that god punishes believer and nonbeliever alike?
Wow...because this is the first time California has been razed by wildfires. That has never ever ever happened before. It's also interesting that San Francisco seems safe from said fires. You'd think it being, as twits like you say, a modern day Sodom, it would be a smoking crater by now, no...?
Huh. I'm actually from N. Cal., and I can say that one of the worst fires was in Paradise, CA, which is full of conservative retirees, and fully 100 miles away from Sac (and 300 miles from San Fran).
Your God must have really bad aim.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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