*gay pride event*
And to think, that God let them rebuild from the great 1906 earthquake...for this.....
And Chicago from the great 1871 fire....
Two fine examples of the Lord extending his mercies only to have it spat upon!
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Fundie Beliefs #17: - The Value of Belief
God always rewards belief and obedience to His Law. For example, suppose a good fundamentalist and a homosexual both get their legs blown off in a war. For the believer, it’s obviously a reward: God has stepped in and saved him from death. For the homosexual, it’s equally obvious that God has taken his legs as a punishment for his Abomination.
This has to be one of the dumbest posts in a long time, even for Rapture Ready. San Francisco didn't start attracting a large gay population until the 1960's, and didn't have Gay Pride events until well after that. That was long after the city was rebuilt from the 1906 earthquake, so it's hard to see how someone could come up with a connection. On the other hand, when a tornado destroyed the Green Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Mississippi, did anyone say it was God's punishment? Hell, no! They said it was a miracle and proof of God's love that the cross was left standing even though trees fell around it! (cue "What a Fool Believes")
@ TGRwulf
Huh? Sorry, this God guy didnt "let" ANYONE rebuild from any earthquake.
Because people can't do a damn thing without God's explicit consent. Wait, doesn't that imply that God's okay with gay pride parades? Or is he going to act like a child again and react with distroportionate retribution sometime in the future, possibly by attacking someone/something else entirely, and not saying why, exactly, they're angry?
Yeesh. And you want to worship someone like that?
How do you know your god allowed them to rebuild? Did people from SF and Chicago ask his permission? Where's the paperwork?
Even my HOA requires written approval before I could even think of making any addition to my house.
@Anevilmeme: Let's not jump the gun with the Poe-calling. I don't believe proper grammar alone is enough to justify a Poe-call.
As for this guy:
"If the Almighty shook ol' Frisco down
How about Galveston? Anyone who would build there is too stupid to do any high-grade sinning. The clock is ticking for SF and LA, but just as loudly for Houston, Charleston, etc.
And to think, that God let them rebuild from the great 1906 earthquake...for this.....
And Chicago from the great 1871 fire....
I had no idea that god was in charge of city planning and zoning.
Two fine examples of the Lord extending his mercies
Of course, his 'mercy' also allowed the disasters to happen in the first place.
only to have it spat upon!
So we're supposed to praise him for fucking up and then fixing his fuck up?
I propose, and I would like you to think about it, that God struck these places down with disasters because they made no room for homosexuals within their cities. This is the very reason that the Bible belt is constantly struck with tornadoes, hurricanes, and the like - they don't allow gays to live openly among them! Allow your gay friends and neighbors to live like humans should and you'll find all your troubles will go away.
Well, maybe not, but at least you won't be a complete jerk while getting sucked up a tornado, and when you die people won't say, cocpea9052 was an asshole and I won't miss them a bit.
Yeah, with the way things work out like that, it's almost as though ... gosh, I know this will sound like silly talk ... God either didn't care or didn't exist at all.
Or, or, you really don't speak for God, and you shouldn't really presumptuously be speaking on His behalf.
The Lord doesn't mind being spat upon, in fact, He positively enjoys it. Spit on Him as much as you like, He doesn't do anything about it. I've been spitting on Him for years and, from Him, not a peep. Not even a thank you. Talk about an ungrateful so and so. The only entities that dislike me spitting on God are not even deities, invisible or otherwise, but human beings who believe in invisible deities, specifically the deities that I say I spit on. I suppose it could be considered rude to spit on someones invisible companion. But the rudeness does bear some relationship with the amount of damage through the ages and around the world that belief in invisible deities brings. So bollocks to invisible deities.
God didn't let them rebuild.
They did it, by themselves.
Your bullshit has nothing to do with it.
In 1871 and 1906, San Francisco didn't have a large gay population. Rather, it was a Wild West city, one of the most dangerous cities in the country, to be specific. Cowboys would often go there and fuck female prostitutes and shoot each other and do other straight cowboy stuff.
I still don't get how leveling a city, then doing NOTHING and forcing people to rebuild it all by themselves, is merciful.
But then again, I'm not sure how making some people be attracted to the same sex, then insisting that they can never act on that attraction or they will burn, is all that merciful either.
Yes, God was so merciful that he killed a bunch of people in two large scale disasters. And to think we'd spit upon such a gracious deity by allowing people to be homosexual, which this deity doesn't really seem to have a problem with.
Strangely enough, we have very few "acts of God" up here in the North. Plus, we are fairly tolerant towards people that don't fit the Christian mold, like homosexuals, people who never marry, atheists, Muslims, Jews, Romani, etc.
Guess God is REALLY merciful towards Swedish people, then...
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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