Right wing religious bigots routinely hear from God. They are also given to interpreting natural and man-made disasters as retributive justice wrought upon those who stray from Christian values as defined by them – not a surprising quality among the deluded and the vindictive. But where the bigots go wrong is when they start believing that God too hears them and their mean-spirited prayers.
It has now come to light that evangelical pastor James Dobson’s organization Focus on the Family had posted this video on its website prior to the Democratic National Convention – praying for rain of "Biblical proportions" on the evening of August 28, the day Barack Obama delivered his acceptance speech outdoors before an audience of nearly 80,000 at the Mile High Stadium in Denver. (The video was later removed from Dobson’s website but survives in cyberspace). The temperature in Denver on August 28 turned out to be balmy and the skies remained crystal clear. The supreme irony of course is that just three days later, the Republican National Convention was in total disarray when its inaugural day festivities got side swiped by Hurricane Gustav roaring into the Gulf Coast. I don’t believe any supporter of Senators Obama & Biden had organized public prayers for weather interference against their political opponents’ plans.
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This time God seems to have responded to Michael Moore’s plea. I wonder if he will keep his promise now that Gustav wasn’t as destructive as expected.
“So please God, let the storm die out at sea. It’s done enough damage already. If you do this one favor for me, I promise not to invoke your name again. I’ll leave that to the followers of Dr. Dobson and to those gathering this week in St. Paul.
Your faithful servant and former seminarian,
Michael Moore”
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God does have a history of flooding the earth when angry. Such a temper! It’s strange that Christians take such a supportive stance towards this. Usually when someone tries to kill…well, everyone…we call it genocide. When god tries to kill everyone? It’s the victims fault. They earned it.
I do love that, in the book of Genesis, God does express regret over flooding the earth: he invents the rainbow as a way of saying, “Oops! Sorry!”. To me, that always seemed like a slightly disproportionate apology. All but five humans killed off…but hey, here’s a pretty rainbow. Very odd.
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