Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
God just needs glasses, is all.
Via PZ, link to the amazingly absurd Ray Comfort blog wherein Ray answers this question:
"There've been several hundred gay marriages enacted in California in the past few days. Maybe a couple of thousand by now, I haven't checked the numbers. And in the non-gay-marrying Midwest, they're fighting floods, while in California it's fair and dry. How is The Golden State managing to escape the wrath of your imaginary friend, I wonder?" Weemaryanne
A perfectly reasonable dig, eh? Well, you're gonna love Ray's response:
Maryanne. At present there are 840 wild-fires that are burning at once in California, destroying many homes. The fires were started by lightning strikes. Guess who’s in charge of the electrical department? These are from thunder storms that have no rain. Guess who gives the rain? You said "while in California it's fair and dry." We are having the worst drought in our recorded history. Last year 1,155 homes were destroyed. You live in an imaginary world. I suggest you get out more.
Man, and people always tell me that such simplistic characterizations of belief are absurd. Hah!
Anyway, enjoy the comments in both threads, or make your own here. I'll simply observe that if Ray is right, then it seems that God's aim is really pretty bad - the wildfires in CA are well away from the areas where the bulk of those gay weddings are happening. Maybe the Big Fella just needs some corrective lenses?
Jim Downey
Bookmark/Search this post with:
God hates Phoenix
Right now there is a large wildfire going on in Phoenix, probably not far from Brent's place, but fortunately it's in a dry river bottom and not threatening any houses. Still, there's a pretty impressive plume of smoke covering the entire valley. Maybe God is pissed because the legislature recently failed to pass a gay-bashing bill.
- No More Mr. Nice Guy!
This has no importance
Whether those most hurt are the ones attacked by Christians is of no importance at all, cause they have an explanation in both cases.
If gays get hurt, I don't have to repeat why.
If non-gays get hurt, it's cause God punishes the Righteous first, cause the Righteous didn't do its job of fighting the gays.
I read that somewhere, when there were fires in LA last year or something.
I asked him,
Hurricanes in the gulf, fires in the mountains, floods in the midwest, all those things happened before the continent was even settled. Why is it that God's wrath always - and I mean always coincides with naturalistic explanations? Is God just that camera-shy?
===
It hasn't showed up yet, though.
Wait... their god acts like
Wait... their god acts like a spoiled two year old by throwing tantrums that result in death and destruction, usually to people who have nothing to do with whatever they don't like...
And they're perfectly fine with this? Or is this just some kind of sick revenge fantasy where they get their jollies by watching people get killed, maimed, and lose everything because someone, somewhere, did something they didn't like?
But also, by Ray's logic, gawd hates the Midwest.
Maybe...
Maybe he's just a really bad shot. It doesn't take much marksmanship to aim a plague or flood now does it?