From the article:
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For at least three nights in a row last week, MSNBC?s Scarborough Country?a
low-rent right-wing answer to Fox?has spent at least some time seriously
debating whether the tsunami was the act of an angry god. Angry at what? Well,
gays and liberals in the US, or maybe Muslims, or possibly the fact that he
spent all that time working on man and he still forgot to remove the vestigial
organs when he was done. Not only is this kind of reasoning incredibly
self-centred?ie, God killed all those people in Indonesia because San Francisco
exists?but it?s best suited for when humans still struggled not be covered in
filth.
If this view is true, why did we ever develop a legal system that went beyond
trial by ordeal? Such an activist god would certainly know the truth better
than a mere mortal judge. If God is willing to create an earthquake/tsunami,
then why isn?t God also willing to be the operative measure of how we determine
guilt and punishment in our society? Oh sure, science could easily explain why
placing hands in boiling water and then wrapping them in filthy rags results in
infection, but why shouldn?t we believe it?s just god revealing our guilt?
Actually, pretend I didn?t write any of that. I don?t want to give them any
ideas.
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J. Spaceman
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