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07 Sep 2005 09:06:09 PM |
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God apologizes for New Orleans mess... |
(Reuters 9/7/05)
In a press conference held earlier today God himself apologized for his
pre-emptive strike against the city of New Orleans. Amongst a wave of
trumpet blows and hails from his entourage of angels, the dheity leaned
forward in his golden chariot and spoke:
"It was my doing. It was wrong. It was a mistake. And I fully expect
to be held up to the same standard of responsibility and accountability
that you people have enforced on your own government for it's
pre-emptive mistake." Yahweah then smiled and joked about George Bush
being America's first Polish President --> the idiot who shot a
trillion dollar arrow at the middle east and missed Saudi Arabia.
When pressed by Giraldo Rivera to explain the disaster god smiled
demurely, commented about that stupid search for Al Capone's vault,
pointed a finger between Giraldo's single eyebrow, reminded the crowd
that Giraldo was in fact jewish and not hispanic, and then blasted the
troll into thin air with a thunderous crack, leaving only a slowly
rising mushroom cloud behind.
As the stench of cooked Giraldo filled the room, Pat Robertson and
Jerry Fallwell threw themselves to their knees exclaiming
"We understand oh Lord, you did this because of the wickedness and sin
of the houses of gambling and prostitution that had overrun..." A
second thunderous crack disappeared the insane right wingers into 2
seperate pillars of smoke.
"Fundy trash... Who the hell ever said you could speak for me?" The
Lord commented as he recoiled his finger gun to his lips and puffed
smoke away from the end of the barrel. "I don't care about that stuff
anymore. Ever since I kicked everybody out of the garden I have had
second thoughts. I have been in extensive anger management training
and I have come to see that since I made you people the way you are in
the first place, it is more my fault than yours, so I understand why
all of that fun stuff goes on. No really - you are all hereby
absolved, have at it! As long as it is concentual I don't mind a bit."
A terrified and trembling Helen Thomas rose to her feet and asked "but
WHY would you do this to us? And shouldn't we repeal the Bush tax cuts
to pay for the cleanup of this mess?" God, responded by announcing to
Helen that her time was up. He snapped his fingers and she keeled
over, dead.
A stunned moment of silence befell the crowd at the final passing of
such a liberal stupid *****. God surveyed the roomful of terrified
reporters and surviving 700 club members, sighed heavily, realized that
he should probably provide some reason, and then explained: "Look. I
meant to hit Crawford Texas with a force 5 tornado so that I could
demolish both the Bush family ranch and all of those annoying anti-war
protestors in one prophetic blow. But I failed to account properly for
global warming, the storm veered waaayy off course and, well, we all
see the result. I mean really, who could have imagined that the levees
wouldn't hold?"
The surviving jounalists feverishly scribbled notes as to the cause of
the mess. "As to who should pay for it? Well it was an act of god, so
I think that only true believers should be held financially liable in
this case."
The gaggle of corporate sucking newsies finished their scribbling and
one asked "Do you have any final comment for us?"
God thought for a moment. "Yes. Hey Rush, do you remember that talent
that I loaned you? I'm taking it back." Another thunderous crack
sounded and far away in a radio studio in southern Florida, a large
mushroom cloud of smoke replaced the biggest blowhard in broadcast
history. "Oh, and Al, you suck too." Yet another thunderous crack
sounded and far away in a radio studio in LA only a cinged pair of
glasses and a half finished martini remained...
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08 Sep 2005 01:34:07 AM |
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On 7 Sep 2005 14:06:09 -0700 the ET form known as
Crash<sourcenexus@san.rr.com> sent a radio signal across the vast
expanse of deep space -._.--._.--._.--._.--._.--._.
(Reuters 9/7/05)
In a press conference held earlier today God himself apologized for his
pre-emptive strike against the city of New Orleans. Amongst a wave of
trumpet blows and hails from his entourage of angels, the dheity leaned
forward in his golden chariot and spoke:
"It was my doing. It was wrong. It was a mistake. And I fully expect
to be held up to the same standard of responsibility and accountability
that you people have enforced on your own government for it's
pre-emptive mistake." Yahweah then smiled and joked about George Bush
being America's first Polish President --> the idiot who shot a
trillion dollar arrow at the middle east and missed Saudi Arabia.
<snipped>
LOL.
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Remove YOUR_SHOES before replying
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Chief EAC prophet
Jason Gastrich is praying for me on 8 January 2009
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~pk1956/
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Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves
were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in
Hell.
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| User: "Victoria Hirt" |
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07 Sep 2005 10:08:13 PM |
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On 7 Sep 2005 14:06:09 -0700, "Crash" <sourcenexus@san.rr.com> wrote:
(Reuters 9/7/05)
In a press conference held earlier today God himself apologized for his
pre-emptive strike against the city of New Orleans. Amongst a wave of
trumpet blows and hails from his entourage of angels, the dheity leaned
forward in his golden chariot and spoke:
"It was my doing. It was wrong. It was a mistake.
People build homes on the side of steep hills, in the flow path of an
active volcano, or along a coast line that is every year damaged by
storms - it wasn't God's fault.
New Orleans is a city that is surrounded by water and it is beneath
sea level - the founders of New Orleans were idiots. Stop trying to
foist the blame on God for the mistakes of men.
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| User: "Earle Jones" |
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16 Sep 2005 01:00:10 AM |
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In article <tuouh1lpl757j01b15qvja4kiev4rrnb2t@4ax.com>,
Victoria Hirt <Please@nospam.com> wrote:
On 7 Sep 2005 14:06:09 -0700, "Crash" <sourcenexus@san.rr.com> wrote:
(Reuters 9/7/05)
In a press conference held earlier today God himself apologized for his
pre-emptive strike against the city of New Orleans. Amongst a wave of
trumpet blows and hails from his entourage of angels, the dheity leaned
forward in his golden chariot and spoke:
"It was my doing. It was wrong. It was a mistake.
People build homes on the side of steep hills, in the flow path of an
active volcano, or along a coast line that is every year damaged by
storms - it wasn't God's fault.
New Orleans is a city that is surrounded by water and it is beneath
sea level - the founders of New Orleans were idiots. Stop trying to
foist the blame on God for the mistakes of men.
*
I thought Cleveland OH was "The Mistake on the Lake".
earle
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| User: "Don" |
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08 Sep 2005 12:02:01 AM |
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In article <tuouh1lpl757j01b15qvja4kiev4rrnb2t@4ax.com>,
says...
On 7 Sep 2005 14:06:09 -0700, "Crash" <sourcenexus@san.rr.com> wrote:
(Reuters 9/7/05)
In a press conference held earlier today God himself apologized for his
pre-emptive strike against the city of New Orleans. Amongst a wave of
trumpet blows and hails from his entourage of angels, the dheity leaned
forward in his golden chariot and spoke:
"It was my doing. It was wrong. It was a mistake.
People build homes on the side of steep hills, in the flow path of an
active volcano, or along a coast line that is every year damaged by
storms - it wasn't God's fault.
And childhood cancer?
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| User: "Victoria Hirt" |
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09 Sep 2005 08:03:15 PM |
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On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 19:02:01 -0500, Spiced-ham?no!@big.isp (Don)
wrote:
In article <tuouh1lpl757j01b15qvja4kiev4rrnb2t@4ax.com>,
says...
On 7 Sep 2005 14:06:09 -0700, "Crash" <sourcenexus@san.rr.com> wrote:
(Reuters 9/7/05)
In a press conference held earlier today God himself apologized for his
pre-emptive strike against the city of New Orleans. Amongst a wave of
trumpet blows and hails from his entourage of angels, the dheity leaned
forward in his golden chariot and spoke:
"It was my doing. It was wrong. It was a mistake.
People build homes on the side of steep hills, in the flow path of an
active volcano, or along a coast line that is every year damaged by
storms - it wasn't God's fault.
And childhood cancer?
Again, not God's fault. Natural laws come into play.
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| User: "Earle Jones" |
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16 Sep 2005 01:05:51 AM |
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In article <djq3i1th5r06krusemabkqh5e20rb8ofv3@4ax.com>,
Victoria Hirt <> wrote:
On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 19:02:01 -0500, Spiced-ham?no!@big.isp (Don)
wrote:
In article <tuouh1lpl757j01b15qvja4kiev4rrnb2t@4ax.com>,
says...
On 7 Sep 2005 14:06:09 -0700, "Crash" <sourcenexus@san.rr.com> wrote:
(Reuters 9/7/05)
In a press conference held earlier today God himself apologized for his
pre-emptive strike against the city of New Orleans. Amongst a wave of
trumpet blows and hails from his entourage of angels, the dheity leaned
forward in his golden chariot and spoke:
"It was my doing. It was wrong. It was a mistake.
People build homes on the side of steep hills, in the flow path of an
active volcano, or along a coast line that is every year damaged by
storms - it wasn't God's fault.
And childhood cancer?
Again, not God's fault. Natural laws come into play.
*
Perhaps the all-powerful God is not so all-powerful. I don't think
your God is powerful enough to stop nature.
If he is powerful enough to stop a hurricane, but chooses not to do
it, then he is a malevolent God.
In any case, he is clearly not worth worshipping.
earle
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"The greater the number of men to whom the treasures
of knowledge become accessible, the more widespread
is the falling-away from religious belief -- at first
only from its obsolete and objectionable trappings,
but later from its fundamental postulates as well."
--Sigmund Freud
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09 Sep 2005 10:25:45 PM |
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Victoria Hirt wrote:
On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 19:02:01 -0500, Spiced-ham?no!@big.isp (Don)
wrote:
In article <tuouh1lpl757j01b15qvja4kiev4rrnb2t@4ax.com>,
says...
On 7 Sep 2005 14:06:09 -0700, "Crash" <sourcenexus@san.rr.com> wrote:
(Reuters 9/7/05)
In a press conference held earlier today God himself apologized for his
pre-emptive strike against the city of New Orleans. Amongst a wave of
trumpet blows and hails from his entourage of angels, the dheity leaned
forward in his golden chariot and spoke:
"It was my doing. It was wrong. It was a mistake.
People build homes on the side of steep hills, in the flow path of an
active volcano, or along a coast line that is every year damaged by
storms - it wasn't God's fault.
And childhood cancer?
Again, not God's fault. Natural laws come into play.
Natural laws that He created?
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* DanielSan -- alt.atheism #2226 *
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* "If God had intended us to walk, he wouldn't *
* have invented roller skates." --Willy Wonka *
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| User: "Meteorite Debris" |
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08 Sep 2005 01:38:39 AM |
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On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:08:13 GMT the ET form known as Victoria
Hirt<Please@nospam.com> sent a radio signal across the vast expanse of
deep space -._.--._.--._.--._.--._.--._.
On 7 Sep 2005 14:06:09 -0700, "Crash" <sourcenexus@san.rr.com> wrote:
(Reuters 9/7/05)
In a press conference held earlier today God himself apologized for his
pre-emptive strike against the city of New Orleans. Amongst a wave of
trumpet blows and hails from his entourage of angels, the dheity leaned
forward in his golden chariot and spoke:
"It was my doing. It was wrong. It was a mistake.
People build homes on the side of steep hills, in the flow path of an
active volcano, or along a coast line that is every year damaged by
storms - it wasn't God's fault.
New Orleans is a city that is surrounded by water and it is beneath
sea level - the founders of New Orleans were idiots. Stop trying to
foist the blame on God for the mistakes of men.
<sarcasm>
Your compassion is touching.
</sarcasm>
--
Remove YOUR_SHOES before replying
apatriot #1, atheist #1417,
Chief EAC prophet
Jason Gastrich is praying for me on 8 January 2009
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~pk1956/
Apatriotism Yahoo Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/apatriotism
Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves
were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in
Hell.
-Mencken
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| User: "Victoria Hirt" |
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09 Sep 2005 08:07:04 PM |
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On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 11:08:39 +0930, Meteorite Debris
<epicurus1@YOUR_SHOESoptusnet.com.au> wrote:
On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:08:13 GMT the ET form known as Victoria
Hirt<Please@nospam.com> sent a radio signal across the vast expanse of
deep space -._.--._.--._.--._.--._.--._.
On 7 Sep 2005 14:06:09 -0700, "Crash" <sourcenexus@san.rr.com> wrote:
(Reuters 9/7/05)
In a press conference held earlier today God himself apologized for his
pre-emptive strike against the city of New Orleans. Amongst a wave of
trumpet blows and hails from his entourage of angels, the dheity leaned
forward in his golden chariot and spoke:
"It was my doing. It was wrong. It was a mistake.
People build homes on the side of steep hills, in the flow path of an
active volcano, or along a coast line that is every year damaged by
storms - it wasn't God's fault.
New Orleans is a city that is surrounded by water and it is beneath
sea level - the founders of New Orleans were idiots. Stop trying to
foist the blame on God for the mistakes of men.
<sarcasm>
Your compassion is touching.
</sarcasm>
What I posted had nothing to do with the people who were tragically
impacted by the hurricane. It has only to do with why the hurricane
damaged New Orleans so badly. I can feel great sorrow for the people
of New Orleans (and those of the rest of the Gulf states) and still
think that the people who designed the town were idiots. One does not
exclude the other.
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08 Sep 2005 01:09:18 AM |
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On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:08:13 GMT, Victoria Hirt <Please@nospam.com>
wrote:
On 7 Sep 2005 14:06:09 -0700, "Crash" <sourcenexus@san.rr.com> wrote:
(Reuters 9/7/05)
In a press conference held earlier today God himself apologized for his
pre-emptive strike against the city of New Orleans. Amongst a wave of
trumpet blows and hails from his entourage of angels, the dheity leaned
forward in his golden chariot and spoke:
"It was my doing. It was wrong. It was a mistake.
People build homes on the side of steep hills, in the flow path of an
active volcano, or along a coast line that is every year damaged by
storms - it wasn't God's fault.
New Orleans is a city that is surrounded by water and it is beneath
sea level - the founders of New Orleans were idiots. Stop trying to
foist the blame on God for the mistakes of men.
True, since there is no God.
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| User: "Barry OGrady" |
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08 Sep 2005 12:52:51 PM |
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On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:08:13 GMT, Victoria Hirt <Please@nospam.com> wrote:
On 7 Sep 2005 14:06:09 -0700, "Crash" <sourcenexus@san.rr.com> wrote:
(Reuters 9/7/05)
That should be 7/9/05
In a press conference held earlier today God himself apologized for his
pre-emptive strike against the city of New Orleans. Amongst a wave of
trumpet blows and hails from his entourage of angels, the dheity leaned
forward in his golden chariot and spoke:
"It was my doing. It was wrong. It was a mistake.
People build homes on the side of steep hills, in the flow path of an
active volcano, or along a coast line that is every year damaged by
storms - it wasn't God's fault.
New Orleans is a city that is surrounded by water and it is beneath
sea level - the founders of New Orleans were idiots. Stop trying to
foist the blame on God for the mistakes of men.
Sorry, God doesn't get off that easily. God must be held responsible for
what he has created.
Barry
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Home page
http://members.iinet.net.au/~barry.og
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| User: "navi-gater" |
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07 Sep 2005 10:56:52 PM |
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Victoria Hirt <Please@nospam.com> wrote in
news:tuouh1lpl757j01b15qvja4kiev4rrnb2t@4ax.com:
People build homes on the side of steep hills, in the flow path of an
active volcano, or along a coast line that is every year damaged by
storms - it wasn't God's fault.
New Orleans is a city that is surrounded by water and it is beneath
sea level - the founders of New Orleans were idiots. Stop trying to
foist the blame on God for the mistakes of men.
Actually, if you believe god is responsible for the good, then you must
also believe he is responsible for the bad.
I know that makes religious beliefs absurd - that's life I'm afraid.
gater.
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| User: "Victoria Hirt" |
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09 Sep 2005 08:02:18 PM |
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On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:56:52 GMT, "navi-gater" <gater@the-gate.net>
wrote:
Victoria Hirt <Please@nospam.com> wrote in
news:tuouh1lpl757j01b15qvja4kiev4rrnb2t@4ax.com:
People build homes on the side of steep hills, in the flow path of an
active volcano, or along a coast line that is every year damaged by
storms - it wasn't God's fault.
New Orleans is a city that is surrounded by water and it is beneath
sea level - the founders of New Orleans were idiots. Stop trying to
foist the blame on God for the mistakes of men.
Actually, if you believe god is responsible for the good, then you must
also believe he is responsible for the bad.
Not at all. I believe we are responsible for our lives - the good and
bad. Our life is a product of the decisions we make in life.
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| User: "navi-gater" |
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09 Sep 2005 11:55:04 PM |
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Victoria Hirt <Please@nospam.com> wrote in
news:0hq3i1d42b1r002j43kb67mnl53lo6dnna@4ax.com:
Actually, if you believe god is responsible for the good, then you must
also believe he is responsible for the bad.
Not at all. I believe we are responsible for our lives - the good and
bad. Our life is a product of the decisions we make in life.
I see - so you are responsible for the hurricanes; PMT was it?
Anywho, if you could just let us know your address I'll get the FBI round
to haul you off to jail.
gater.
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| User: "Earle Jones" |
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16 Sep 2005 01:07:56 AM |
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In article <Xns96CCCA9F438EBthegatenet@207.69.189.191>,
"navi-gater" <gater@the-gate.net> wrote:
Victoria Hirt <Please@nospam.com> wrote in
news:0hq3i1d42b1r002j43kb67mnl53lo6dnna@4ax.com:
Actually, if you believe god is responsible for the good, then you must
also believe he is responsible for the bad.
Not at all. I believe we are responsible for our lives - the good and
bad. Our life is a product of the decisions we make in life.
I see - so you are responsible for the hurricanes; PMT was it?
Anywho, if you could just let us know your address I'll get the FBI round
to haul you off to jail.
gater.
*
I think you mean PMS (Pre-menstrual Syndrome).
Q: Do you know why they call it PMS?
A: Because 'mad-cow disease' was already taken.
earle
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16 Sep 2005 04:29:53 AM |
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Earle Jones <earle.jones@comcast.net> wrote in
news:earle.jones-983F1A.18075615092005@comcast.dca.giganews.com:
I see - so you are responsible for the hurricanes; PMT was it?
I think you mean PMS (Pre-menstrual Syndrome).
I thought it was pre-menstrual tension but you're probably right-on.
Q: Do you know why they call it PMS?
A: Because 'mad-cow disease' was already taken.
lol.
gater.
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10 Sep 2005 02:45:11 AM |
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On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 23:55:04 GMT, "navi-gater" <gater@the-gate.net>
wrote:
Victoria Hirt <Please@nospam.com> wrote in
news:0hq3i1d42b1r002j43kb67mnl53lo6dnna@4ax.com:
Actually, if you believe god is responsible for the good, then you must
also believe he is responsible for the bad.
Not at all. I believe we are responsible for our lives - the good and
bad. Our life is a product of the decisions we make in life.
I see - so you are responsible for the hurricanes; PMT was it?
Well, human beings were responsible for where New Orleans was located.
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10 Sep 2005 03:34:48 AM |
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On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 02:45:11 GMT, Victoria Hirt <Please@nospam.com>
wrote:
On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 23:55:04 GMT, "navi-gater" <gater@the-gate.net>
wrote:
Victoria Hirt <Please@nospam.com> wrote in
news:0hq3i1d42b1r002j43kb67mnl53lo6dnna@4ax.com:
Actually, if you believe god is responsible for the good, then you must
also believe he is responsible for the bad.
Not at all. I believe we are responsible for our lives - the good and
bad. Our life is a product of the decisions we make in life.
I see - so you are responsible for the hurricanes; PMT was it?
Well, human beings were responsible for where New Orleans was located.
God could have stopped New Orleans from being where it is or even the
hurricane from hitting there. Unless, of course, it isn't a very
powerful god at all.
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Remove Belief to reply
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10 Sep 2005 04:41:56 AM |
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Once upon a time in alt.atheism, dear sweet AngryJohn
(angryjohn@belief.comcast.net) made the light shine upon us with this:
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 02:45:11 GMT, Victoria Hirt <Please@nospam.com>
wrote:
On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 23:55:04 GMT, "navi-gater" <gater@the-gate.net>
wrote:
Victoria Hirt <Please@nospam.com> wrote in
news:0hq3i1d42b1r002j43kb67mnl53lo6dnna@4ax.com:
Actually, if you believe god is responsible for the good, then you
must also believe he is responsible for the bad.
Not at all. I believe we are responsible for our lives - the good
and bad. Our life is a product of the decisions we make in life.
I see - so you are responsible for the hurricanes; PMT was it?
Well, human beings were responsible for where New Orleans was located.
God could have stopped New Orleans from being where it is or even the
hurricane from hitting there. Unless, of course, it isn't a very
powerful god at all.
Hey, even a *real* Christian could have raised the city about 50 feet
through the power of prayer. I guess there are no real Christians, by
the bible's definition anyway.
--
Uncle Vic
aa#2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department
http://home.comcast.net/~vickman/
Plonked by Raytard
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10 Sep 2005 04:44:51 AM |
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On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 23:41:56 -0500, Uncle Vic <address@withheld.com>
wrote:
Once upon a time in alt.atheism, dear sweet AngryJohn
(angryjohn@belief.comcast.net) made the light shine upon us with this:
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 02:45:11 GMT, Victoria Hirt <Please@nospam.com>
wrote:
On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 23:55:04 GMT, "navi-gater" <gater@the-gate.net>
wrote:
Victoria Hirt <Please@nospam.com> wrote in
news:0hq3i1d42b1r002j43kb67mnl53lo6dnna@4ax.com:
Actually, if you believe god is responsible for the good, then you
must also believe he is responsible for the bad.
Not at all. I believe we are responsible for our lives - the good
and bad. Our life is a product of the decisions we make in life.
I see - so you are responsible for the hurricanes; PMT was it?
Well, human beings were responsible for where New Orleans was located.
God could have stopped New Orleans from being where it is or even the
hurricane from hitting there. Unless, of course, it isn't a very
powerful god at all.
Hey, even a *real* Christian could have raised the city about 50 feet
through the power of prayer. I guess there are no real Christians, by
the bible's definition anyway.
Never has been. Especially with the many and varied definitions of a
"real christian" is.
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| User: "Charles & Mambo Duckman" |
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| Title: Re: God apologizes for New Orleans mess... |
14 Sep 2005 07:24:41 AM |
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Victoria Hirt wrote:
Actually, if you believe god is responsible for the good, then you must
also believe he is responsible for the bad.
Not at all. I believe we are responsible for our lives - the good and
bad. Our life is a product of the decisions we make in life.
I see - so you are responsible for the hurricanes; PMT was it?
Well, human beings were responsible for where New Orleans was located.
I see... So if I were to rape you, it would actually be your fault because
of where your ***** was located?
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Come down off the cross
We can use the wood
Tom Waits, Come On Up To The House
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| User: "DanielSan" |
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| Title: Re: God apologizes for New Orleans mess... |
09 Sep 2005 10:25:25 PM |
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Victoria Hirt wrote:
On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:56:52 GMT, "navi-gater" <gater@the-gate.net>
wrote:
Victoria Hirt <Please@nospam.com> wrote in
news:tuouh1lpl757j01b15qvja4kiev4rrnb2t@4ax.com:
People build homes on the side of steep hills, in the flow path of an
active volcano, or along a coast line that is every year damaged by
storms - it wasn't God's fault.
New Orleans is a city that is surrounded by water and it is beneath
sea level - the founders of New Orleans were idiots. Stop trying to
foist the blame on God for the mistakes of men.
Actually, if you believe god is responsible for the good, then you must
also believe he is responsible for the bad.
Not at all. I believe we are responsible for our lives - the good and
bad. Our life is a product of the decisions we make in life.
....which is a byproduct of God's creation... and therefore, God is
responsible for the bad.
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| User: "Victoria Hirt" |
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| Title: Re: Re: God apologizes for New Orleans mess... |
10 Sep 2005 02:44:27 AM |
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On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 22:25:25 GMT, DanielSan <daniel-san@myrealbox.com>
wrote:
Victoria Hirt wrote:
On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:56:52 GMT, "navi-gater" <gater@the-gate.net>
wrote:
Victoria Hirt <Please@nospam.com> wrote in
news:tuouh1lpl757j01b15qvja4kiev4rrnb2t@4ax.com:
People build homes on the side of steep hills, in the flow path of an
active volcano, or along a coast line that is every year damaged by
storms - it wasn't God's fault.
New Orleans is a city that is surrounded by water and it is beneath
sea level - the founders of New Orleans were idiots. Stop trying to
foist the blame on God for the mistakes of men.
Actually, if you believe god is responsible for the good, then you must
also believe he is responsible for the bad.
Not at all. I believe we are responsible for our lives - the good and
bad. Our life is a product of the decisions we make in life.
...which is a byproduct of God's creation... and therefore, God is
responsible for the bad.
No one is responsible for an offspring once they have grown up and
become an adult.
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: God apologizes for New Orleans mess... |
07 Sep 2005 10:13:36 PM |
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You might want to re-read the original post and maybe turn on your
sarcasm detector.
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| User: "Kate " |
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| Title: Re: God apologizes for New Orleans mess... |
07 Sep 2005 10:55:03 PM |
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On 7 Sep 2005 15:13:36 -0700, wrote:
You might want to re-read the original post and maybe turn on your
sarcasm detector.
So was that God's fault?
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| User: "Barry OGrady" |
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| Title: Re: God apologizes for New Orleans mess... |
08 Sep 2005 12:52:50 PM |
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On 7 Sep 2005 14:06:09 -0700, "Crash" <sourcenexus@san.rr.com> wrote:
(Reuters 9/7/05)
In a press conference held earlier today God himself apologized for his
pre-emptive strike against the city of New Orleans. Amongst a wave of
trumpet blows and hails from his entourage of angels, the dheity leaned
forward in his golden chariot and spoke:
God apologised in advance?
"It was my doing. It was wrong. It was a mistake. And I fully expect
to be held up to the same standard of responsibility and accountability
that you people have enforced on your own government for it's
pre-emptive mistake." Yahweah then smiled and joked about George Bush
being America's first Polish President --> the idiot who shot a
trillion dollar arrow at the middle east and missed Saudi Arabia.
When pressed by Giraldo Rivera to explain the disaster god smiled
demurely, commented about that stupid search for Al Capone's vault,
pointed a finger between Giraldo's single eyebrow, reminded the crowd
that Giraldo was in fact jewish and not hispanic, and then blasted the
troll into thin air with a thunderous crack, leaving only a slowly
rising mushroom cloud behind.
As the stench of cooked Giraldo filled the room, Pat Robertson and
Jerry Fallwell threw themselves to their knees exclaiming
"We understand oh Lord, you did this because of the wickedness and sin
of the houses of gambling and prostitution that had overrun..." A
second thunderous crack disappeared the insane right wingers into 2
seperate pillars of smoke.
"Fundy trash... Who the hell ever said you could speak for me?" The
Lord commented as he recoiled his finger gun to his lips and puffed
smoke away from the end of the barrel. "I don't care about that stuff
anymore. Ever since I kicked everybody out of the garden I have had
second thoughts. I have been in extensive anger management training
and I have come to see that since I made you people the way you are in
the first place, it is more my fault than yours, so I understand why
all of that fun stuff goes on. No really - you are all hereby
absolved, have at it! As long as it is concentual I don't mind a bit."
A terrified and trembling Helen Thomas rose to her feet and asked "but
WHY would you do this to us? And shouldn't we repeal the Bush tax cuts
to pay for the cleanup of this mess?" God, responded by announcing to
Helen that her time was up. He snapped his fingers and she keeled
over, dead.
A stunned moment of silence befell the crowd at the final passing of
such a liberal stupid *****. God surveyed the roomful of terrified
reporters and surviving 700 club members, sighed heavily, realized that
he should probably provide some reason, and then explained: "Look. I
meant to hit Crawford Texas with a force 5 tornado so that I could
demolish both the Bush family ranch and all of those annoying anti-war
protestors in one prophetic blow. But I failed to account properly for
global warming, the storm veered waaayy off course and, well, we all
see the result. I mean really, who could have imagined that the levees
wouldn't hold?"
The surviving jounalists feverishly scribbled notes as to the cause of
the mess. "As to who should pay for it? Well it was an act of god, so
I think that only true believers should be held financially liable in
this case."
The gaggle of corporate sucking newsies finished their scribbling and
one asked "Do you have any final comment for us?"
God thought for a moment. "Yes. Hey Rush, do you remember that talent
that I loaned you? I'm taking it back." Another thunderous crack
sounded and far away in a radio studio in southern Florida, a large
mushroom cloud of smoke replaced the biggest blowhard in broadcast
history. "Oh, and Al, you suck too." Yet another thunderous crack
sounded and far away in a radio studio in LA only a cinged pair of
glasses and a half finished martini remained...
Barry
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