This is a funny and insightful passage I came across in Dan Savage's book "The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marraige and My Family." Hope you enjoy it!
"Sitting in a hotel room in Portland, Oregon, I listened to a 'Christian leader' on a cable news shoutfest describe the December 26, 2004, earthquake and tsunami that killed a quarter of a million people in Asia as evidence of God's displeasure. With Asians? No, with same-sex marriage. 'We can't allow things that offend God to flourish without expecting to incur the wrath of God,' she said. She cited gay and lesbian marriages in Canada, San Francisco, and Massachusetts. 'Gay marriage offends God deeply,' hence the killer wave."
God may be all-knowing and all-powerful, but He is, it seems, a lousy shot, the Mr. Magoo of higher powers. Same-sex couples get married in Boston, Toronto and San Francisco, and a vengeful, near-sighted God triggers an earthquake that slams a killer wave into Indonesia, Thailand, India and Sri Lanka, killing a quarter of a million people who weren't even invited to the wedding.
But perhaps I'm being unfair to God. Sometimes He does manage to score a direct hit. The 1993 Northridge Earthquake, measuring a 6.7 on the Richter scale, scored a direct hit to the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California. Christian conservative leader Pat Robertson was quick to blame the multi-billion dollar porn industry, which is based in the San Fernando Valley, for an earthquake that took fifty-seven lives and caused billions of dollars in damage. God doesn't like pornography, you see, and while not one of the people who died that day was a porn star, a porn director, or a porn producer, God's message was clear: Stop making dirty movies in the San Fernando Valley or I'll drop some more houses on innocent bystanders."
1 comments:
YES ! YES ! This is something like a parrable that our Lord and savior Jesus would have said to these modern day pharisees..but..then he ofcourse would have added "You hyporcrits ! You dare to use the name of God in vain, with no logic or reason so as to place burdens upon people that you yourselves could not bear! If these people you speak of had not been beaten down by you, many of them would not see me as a God who hates them but as the true God that I am, the God of all, the God of Love. You Hypocrits! You steel the LOve out God to replace it with hate. behold ! you live and work in a den of thieves! It is good for you that you can not really steal love out of God, for if you had, you would have been swept away by the waves of the sea 10,000 times already ! But the ways of God are not your ways, so you remain.
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