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:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:s tupid ppl
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Granted, there
are lots of loonies out there, but surely you understood that was a satirical joke?
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The Lord said, "A hurricane will broach Texas"
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Translation: I felt I had very good reason to believe a hurricane would hit Texas, and decided to do absolutely nothing about it and instead let an innocent die.
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One minute later while I was still pondering the message plus why He would tell me this ...
The Lord said, "If a missile were to be launched against Tel aviv ... it would land in Jordan"
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How do you know this was a show of force and not a prophecy? And haven't missiles been launched against Tel Aviv before?
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My faith has been increased ... God is in charge
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...is he?
See, while GeeTrue's original post may have been a 'Poe', or parody of religious fundamentalism, it raises an important point:
how can natural disasters be... what's the word they use... reconciled with an omnipotent, loving God?
If He cannot stop these disasters, He is not omnipotent.
If He chooses not to stop the disasters, how can we call him loving?
If He directly causes them, He is a threat to humanity.
And if He neither can, nor wants to prevent natural disasters... to paraphrase what a Greek philosopher said, why call him a god?