America's Natural Disasters Are A Sign From God!

[Stann]

God makes the weather, haven't you read your bible?

Yes, GOD put the natural systems in place; but mankind has totally screwed them up, like they do with most everything.

 

[Jaxson]

Yes, GOD put the natural systems in place; but mankind has totally screwed them up, like they do with most everything.

God is trying to flood us out again, but he can't seem to raise his game enough. We'll see if he gets it together...

 

[sealybobo]

You got it bad.

Like I said before. Republicans are the ones dying of covid. They are suffering from global warming the most. I just learned another way you're being duped by the people you support. Steve Bannon. You guys gave him millions to build a wall and he ripped you off. And I bet you will still defend him. You will still support his boss, Trump. Idiots!

Steve Bannon âstole millions of dollars to line his own pocket,â New York attorney general says â as it happened

Ex-Trump strategist charged with money-laundering and conspiracy over border-wall fundraising scam

www.theguardian.com

Maybe now you'll be mad about them lying to you?

 

[ding]

Like I said before. Republicans are the ones dying of covid. They are suffering from global warming the most. I just learned another way you're being duped by the people you support. Steve Bannon. You guys gave him millions to build a wall and he ripped you off. And I bet you will still defend him. You will still support his boss, Trump. Idiots!

Steve Bannon âstole millions of dollars to line his own pocket,â New York attorney general says â as it happened

Ex-Trump strategist charged with money-laundering and conspiracy over border-wall fundraising scam

www.theguardian.com

Maybe now you'll be mad about them lying to you?

How can I be mad if I never listened to them in the first place? You got it bad.

 

[Mashmont]

Your vengeful jealous God that childishly visits random misfortune on humans can kiss my ass. You worship a monster.

Occupied prefers earthly gods like Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Pol Pot, and Kim Jong-un.

 

[Stann]

Occupied prefers earthly gods like Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Pol Pot, and Kim Jong-un.

They're all criminals, including your tribal religious gods.

 

[WinterBorn]

Any one who believes that natural disasters are God punishing sinners needs their head examined.

The idea that the "God of Love" would kill or endanger millions of good Christians, just to punish sinners, is ridiculous.

 

[Mashmont]

Mills and boon cater for fictional short novels like that.

Just because the majority of the population believe there is a god, it doesn't make it fact and never will.
This argument has been simmering for 2000 years and Not one sceric of evidence has ever been presented. That's a complete failure on the part of religion.

That's actually untrue. Just look at the good fruits argument. Fervent Christians have done so many acts of great love. Fervent atheists have committed such acts of horror. You don't see the reverse of that.

 

[Stann]

Any one who believes that natural disasters are God punishing sinners needs their head examined.

The idea that the "God of Love" would kill or endanger millions of good Christians, just to punish sinners, is ridiculous.

The vengeful evil god was the tribal god / god's of the Old Testament. They have nothing to do with Christianity. ( Or at least they shouldn't have. ).

 

[FredVegbarfuss]

There are serious issues in this world now, much of it from us without change from it, even if it is pointed out, and God fairly leaves us to the consequences of what we are doing without change from that. Our civilization is destructive to this world with its exploitation which we participate in with our demands in purchasing, and we have loss of natural environments as resources diminish, extinction of many species, climate disaster, and still more of serious issues. We are told our responsibilities from what God revealed, with even the model of what God meant with design for it. Come out of her my people.

 

[Stann]

That's actually untrue. Just look at the good fruits argument. Fervent Christians have done so many acts of great love. Fervent atheists have committed such acts of horror. You don't see the reverse of that.

I'm sorry you don't understand the subtle evil that religion represents. The very fact that they place man above all else on Earth has led to its very destruction. The religious view gives those who adhere to it the idea that they are right no matter what they do they say adversely affect everyone else. They really go after the vulnerable and attempt to influence them and their poorly researched worldview of " evil ". Did you know that the United States, along with Somalia, are the only two nations in the world that have failed to ratify the United Nations convention on the rights of a child simply because of the Christian idea that children are property of their parents. This leads to all types of abuse. Including the lack of proper sex education which prepares them for the rest of their lives. The tendency to condemn science holds us back. Right now today we are struggling with obstruction of humanity's transition to more thoughtful intentional childbearing as we see with the abortion Issue in this country. Which is part of the religious communities the demeaning and subjugation of women. Abortion can only help save the planet, despite the religious communities of the judgmental religions planning for a final holy war. The list goes on and on of how religious beliefs harm modern day society. I am no expert I can't give you a total picture but I'm sure that information is out there and available if you're interested in learning the truth.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Our evangelicals vote for people like Herschel Walker and Donald trump. Not only do we need to turn our back on the Iron Age God character, we need to pull these people out of their crazy little cult foxholes.

 

[Stann]

Our evangelicals vote for people like Herschel Walker and Donald trump. Not only do we need to turn our back on the Iron Age God character, we need to pull these people out of their crazy little cult foxholes.

At least the government should take away the tax exempt status of their crazy churches.

 

[sealybobo]

I always laugh at those fools who insist a natural disaster is God punishing people.

So God sends a disaster that hurts everyone, to punish the ones who sin? How many good people suffer too?

Just more attempts to extort people into joining the cult.

Don Jr. said god sent lightning to delay Biden's Easter celebration.

Well then I say he sent the tornados to states that voted for Trump

Storms cause damage across Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee; millions still face severe weather warnings​

Where did the storms hit hardest?​

Large sections of Ohio and Kentucky were contending with the most serious risks, along with a stretch of far-eastern Indiana.

 

[surada]

Human beings have a spiritual dimension in part evidenced by the fact that human beings experience peace and joy from interactions with other human beings even after the direct interaction and the fact the vast majority of people if not all question whether there is a God, a higher being a more powerful being that had a part in creating this world and that has an involvement in what is going on in this world and whether there is an afterlife for human beings. In fact, surveys in America indicate that the majority of adult Americans believe there is a God. This writer does and believes this God has a perfect nature, in part, meaning he is all good, all knowing and all powerful and that this God is engaged in this world meaning it matters to this God what is transpiring in the world; probably and I cannot prove this most Americans at some level believe the same. With this preface I want to proffer a belief it isn't something I cannot prove it is a matter of faith it is something I believe in my gut and my conscience based on a life-time of living but again I cannot prove it. I believe that the natural disasters that America is seeing this year is a sign from God. The forest fires in the west of the country, Hurricane Ida, the droughts and the flooding America has seen this year are strangely odd in the high level of damage they have caused. Sure human beings have damaged the climate by the use of fossil fuels which causes these seen weather effects but there is something unusual about the severity it makes me believe that it is a sign from God; these natural disasters have killed innocent and good people so I am not saying God ordained it which would be an unjust act toward these victims rather I am saying God permitted it he allowed the damaged climate to work its will which otherwise he would have stayed it with his hand. the sign I think God was and is trying to send is that Americans are straying from being a good people and we should get back on the good path!

A senior citizen like me can compare America over decades and it is obvious that we have become a less good people. What the heck are we doing with the proliferation of gambling across our country now sports gambling seems to be the hot craze, gambling means that we as a community are responsible for our neighbor gambling money he or she needs to provide for their family or should be saving for their retirement or should be passing onto their children so they can secure a decent standard of living for themselves and their children. This expansion of gambling shows that we as a people don't appropriately care about our neighbor. I don't know at this juncture what we do to rein in this evil maybe have a national database that tracks gambling expenditures that gambling businesses must monitor and be restrained by that would limit Americans from gambling away more than one thousand dollars a month.

Americans seem to have lost their sense or commitment to doing what is good. What is good often involves balancing of interests now many of us seem to not consider the other sides legitimate concerns or distort them for our benefit. The immigration issue is an example one side wants to have open borders and the other side wants to have mass deportation; doing what is good means comprehensive immigration reform the illegal immigrants that have been here for years deserve to be legalized because the country used them to operate the economy and on the other side we need to stop illegal immigration our nation's jobs, our nation's quality of life is for American citizens and our nation's strength and a pervasive benefit of America is that we are a melting pot of cultures it is absolutely not okay that we become an Hispanic or any other ethnic monolithic culture we need to absolutely stop this legal right that you make it to America's borders you can claim refugee status. It doesn't matter that you come from an impoverished country or a country controlled significantly by drug cartels, American has its own problems we cannot take you in, that's it period!

There is so many issues like this where what is good is not ruling the day. On voting their should be a national law it should be very limited, mandating two weeks of early voting and on the other hand banning mail in voting unless the person cannot get to the polls or is aged, the ballot harvesting that will result otherwise will significantly undermine our democracy, citizens freely choose those that represent them. Taxes on the wealthy and corporations needs to increase to reduce the economic imbalance in America which leaves many in real hardship but great restraint needs to be shown we want to be fair and we don't want to cause significant negative economic effects that will ripple throughout the economy that will hurt those sought to be helped. On healthcare the Government needs to shoulder a lot of the cost for people because it is unaffordable, on the other hand America needs to cut costs in the system across the board because it is too expensive the costs to treat respective health problems. America needs to a large, large degree transition away from carbon fuels but needs to do it in economic measured steps with full consideration of the ramifications of these steps. America needs to do a better job at stopping violence against blacks and minorities but should not hurt the system in doing so only improve the system.

A dispositive sign that our country has a character problem is the fact that Congress was not brought back into session and a joint resolution wasn't passed calling for the President to not remove the U.S. military out of Afghanistan until all American citizens that wanted to leave the country were evacuated and that our Afghan allies that wanted to evacuate were given an outstanding opportunity to evacuate so that America did not abandon our Afghan allies that are at high risk of being killed by Taliban reprisals. So many Americans especially U.S. veterans alarm and disagreement with President Biden's super callous pullout attest to the egregious morally bad act of America's Afghanistan pullout and Congress as a branch of government as a check on the President did nothing, absolutely nothing.

As a people Americans need to improve our character. But what also really needs to happen in America at minimum are two things. First, Congress needs to pass laws that cable channel providers need to provide at least two news channels to non-profits that act as unbiased news stations America needs to break out of its mold where America is lead from a news perspective by either MSNBC or CNN on the left and FOX or OAN or NewsMax on the right; these channels should be evaluated every fifteen years to see if they are keeping their charter and if they haven't their right to this cable channel should be permanently removed from them and a replacement non-profit organization should be chosen and Congress should authorize that the Federal government should provide a seed grant to such organizations to get them up and running. Secondly, America needs to have term limits (life-time) for members of Congress, five terms max for House members and two terms max for Senators. This will significantly help with the problem our country has where the top priority for members of Congress is holding on to their seat and not to do what is in the best interest of their citizens. If members of Congress knew they were going to have at maximum ten or twelve years in their job they wouldn't be so beholding to the Political Action Committees, big donors and the leaders of Congress that dole out money for reelection efforts and campaign finance reform is only a partial solution to this problem, term limits will greater weaken the special interests control over our Congressional representatives.

The US government has no jurisdiction over US citizens abroad.

 

[surada]

Gabe, there is some merit in what you say. That's why we need to pray for those who pervert their beliefs to get rid of culpability of abominations. And we need to pray hard for those who fight for Torah wisdom such as that shown in Christ's compassion on the cross for those who quite literally murdered the most innocent of persons who was and is the strength (right hand) of the mighty God according to Isiah's blessed prophecy.

Isaiah was writing about Israel, not Jesus.

 

[surada]

This nation has turned its back on God and will be destroyed.

Luke 13:4 In-Context
But unless you repent, you too will all perish. 4 Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”
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