Who do you think God is punishing with Hurricane Gustav?
I blame the municipalities who allow stores to be open for business on Sundays and the people who patronize these stores. Sunday is supposed to be a day to praise the Lord and reflect on His greatness. Growing up, stores and restaurants were closed on Sunday. Good folks went to church and then mother would make family dinner. Times were better then. I salute the businesses that remain closed on Sundays to allow employees to go to church and not have to deal with un-Godly people.
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Oh, shut up. You're old enough to remember that time AND you've never bought anything on a Sunday before? Yeah, right. You're as bad as those people who come into my store on holidays and chirp, "Oh, dear! It's so sad that you have to work on a holiday!"
"Who do you think God is punishing with Hurricane Gustav?"
I didn't know this was any kind of punishment.
"I blame the municipalities who allow stores to be open for business on Sundays and the people who patronize these stores."
Your God certainly is a butt-hurt little bitch, I must say.
"Sunday is supposed to be a day to praise the Lord and reflect on His greatness. Growing up, stores and restaurants were closed on Sunday. Good folks went to church and then mother would make family dinner."
Yeah, we went to Grandmother's house after Church.
"Times were better then."
Times were better for me, 'cos I was a little kid. I'm sure times were crap for others, including Christians.
"I salute the businesses that remain closed on Sundays to allow employees to go to church and not have to deal with un-Godly people."
You mean so you won't be dirtied by my presence. Fuck off, then.
"Who do you think God is punishing with Hurricane Gustav?"
Look, it's called a tropical storm. It starts off the coast of africa, travels across the west indies, and then hits south-east america, EVERY FUCKING YEAR. If you live there, there will be hurricanes, regardless of whether shops are open or not.
Uh, before us Europeans settled the New World did god punish the Indian populations for hunting on Sundays, especially when they didn't even know that it was Sunday? Or maybe there were no hurricanes until full retail got underway....not sure....I will have to do some reseacrh.
I blame the municipalities who allow stores to be open for business on Sundays Fridays and the people who patronize these stores. Sunday Friday is supposed to be a day to praise the Lord Allah and reflect on His greatness. Growing up, stores and restaurants were closed on Sunday Friday. Good folks went to church Friday prayers and then mother would make family dinner. Times were better then. I salute the businesses that remain closed on Sundays Fridays to allow employees to go to church prayers at the mosque and not have to deal with un-Godly people.
fixed. Allah be praised!
Maybe God isn't punishing anybody. Hurricanes happened. Just for the record, why did he send the tsunami to Thailand?, or hasn't he sent hurricanes to Sweden, where the habit of skipping Sunday is more prominent?
*Looks outside*
*Looks at the weather records for the past century*
*Looks outside again*
Huh. No hurricanes, or any natural weather outside of some sporadic unseasonal snow...yet Sunday shopping had been allowed here in Calgary for some time...it's...it's almost like it's just random.
Oh, for fuck's sake. When I worked in various fast food establishments around Orlando, we'd have large crowds on Sunday...right after church let out. Not to mention the must-avoid hours between about 11 and 2 at every Wal-Mart, Target, and grocery store on Sunday. If Christians didn't make it profitable for businesses to open on Sunday, the businesses wouldn't be open on Sunday. Beam in the eye and all that, asshole.
If he's punishing anyone with it, he completely missed my atheist friends down there, the hurricane turned away before it got to their town, but I hear it hit a nice thick population of christians..
Fucker
"Sunday is supposed to be a day to praise the Lord and reflect on His greatness. Growing up, stores and restaurants were closed on Sunday. Good folks went to church and then mother would make family dinner."
Btw fundie buttfuck, no, this is wrong. Sunday was a day of rest, there was a time you weren't even allowed to get out of bed on a Sunday...
I find it completely ironic that on sundays when the resturant was open, right around 12:30 we'd get slammed for four hours by church goers fresh out of sermon...also that they'd turn the main street into a drag strip to get here first. "Love thy neighbor, now get the fuck outta my way, i need some goddamned food!"
Your god still has shitty aim.
If Gustav is a divine punishment for anything, consider: It missed N'awlins, but thoroughly disrupted the Republican convention. Maybe somebody up there is getting back at all the sanctimonious fundies, Republicans all, who piously proclaimed that Katrina was judgment upon a wicked city despite the many thousands of innocent and churchgoing people it battered.
"...Sunday is supposed to be a day to praise the Lord and reflect on His greatness. ..."
John: "Where in the Bible does it say that?"
In at least three places. Well, not Sunday, per se, but the "sabbath." Eg.: Exodus 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Which leads me to think for an all-powerful creator of everything, bible god sure is a whiny little glory-hogging bitch.
/Who do you think God is punishing with Hurricane Gustav?/
Oh, man, not this garbage again. How much do you want to bet that in five seconds, the Phelps clan will be all over this?
Time to play the FSTDT drinking game!
Every time a natural disaster is explained as punishment for "sins," take a shot.
Every time our failure in Iraq is attributed to our acceptance of homosexuals, pagans, atheists, and/or liberals, take a shot.
Every time someone from Yahoo! Answers references evolution, take a shot.
We'll probably be able to stand the foolishness and hypocrisy more if we stay in a constant state of intoxication.
--The L
Fuck, 95% of the stores around here are open Sundays.
And you can buy booze on Sundays, too!
Where's the fucking hurricane for Flint, Michigan, huh?
Or maybe God is punishing us with crime and unemployment?
I know these fundies have a nostalgic fantasy of a 1950s world where women stayed in the kitchen, negros kept to their part of town and the sodomites and nonbelievers where jailed as communists but is he actually claiming the weather was better before we started letting people buy burgers and beers on Sunday? Tell that to Galveston.
Actually, according to the bible good folk dont cook or do anything on the sabath as decreed by YHVH. Jehovah once struck a man dead for picking up sticks to warm his family on the sabath and you are damn lucky he didnt strike your mother dead because he doesnt fuck around with ants like you and your family..tremble mortal..tremble!
You're not supposed to work on Sunday,,,but mother makes Sunday dinner.
The Jews are better at this then you, they prepare the days before to have prepared food ready for the holy Sabbath. You lot make your Mother violate the day. Bad Christian.
In southern Germany it was* a century old tradition that the men go into the local inn after church for a few beers until the mother has finished the Sunday roast. Curiously we have always had a lack of hurricanes here.
*(and often still is, even for those not longer going to church)
You've missed a few steps between cause and effect, Kenneth. As evidence for your starting hypothesis, now show me how the sinners were hit with the hurricane and all the godly were spared. Go right ahead, take a survey.
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