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"Wolf Shedler" |
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06 Sep 2005 06:48:24 PM |
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storms and god |
9/6/2005
A God's Eye View of Recent Events:
Oh, sweet Christians, yes, the mighty winds and floods
of Katrina are indeed the works of God, but, no, the
hurricane and its vengeful aftermath are not God's
penance on New Orleans and Biloxi for the sins of sex
and gambling. For God is far wiser than that. No,
Hurricane Katrina was God's way of wrecking the
Republican agenda.
Yes, you might say, and you might be right (this being
about God, and, really, we are not meant to know God's
ways), God could have been a little more subtle about
it. Perhaps Tom DeLay caught fellating an illegal
Mexican exterminator. But, no, God's tried subtle
before - God's sent a plague of throat-lodging
pretzels upon the President, but to no lasting effect.
Bush has lived before with the oxygen cut off to his
brain. And, in the realm of God stuff, eternity,
worldwide floods, the like, a hurricane is not that
big a deal. God's a big picture kind of deity.
God is all about opportunities, not punishment.
Choices, not condemnation. Jesus could have used all
kinds of Christ-y magic to smite some motherfuckers
when he was up on that cross, but he chose not to. Job
could have said, "Yo, God, ***** you," but he did not.
When God allowed 9/11 to happen, it was an
opportunity, a glass is half full kind of moment, a
chance to unify the people of the world, but, ah, yes,
the Devil is always there, always waiting,
shape-shifting and telling untruths as if they were
the tablets from the Mount, for the Devil is, indeed,
the Prince of Lies.
So the chance at a kind of peace was shattered because
the Devil is like the finest stripper at the cheapest
joint: he knows how to dance so the people will be
hypnotized by his tempting sashay and thonged *****, so
they will not see the cold, calculating machinations
going on in the back of the club. Or they will not
care when someone opens the doors and says, "Look, see
how they keep the Russian immigrants here enslaved,
see how they threaten their families back in Moscow,
see how they keep them addicted to drugs so they'll be
willing to blow the owner's son to keep those hits
coming." When the Devil shakes his ***** in your face,
who are you, mere mortal, to deny the Devil a buck in
his spangled g-string?
Thus, God's hand was forced to bring out the biggest
guns to drive into stark relief the images of God's
poorest people, the ones that the rest of us are
supposed to care about, the ones who got nary a visit
from a presidential candidate last year, the ones who
are supposed to disappear like ants into the hill
after they've done their work: out of sight, out of
mind. God's made this pretty fuckin' simple, God
thinks: what you do to the least of these, you know.
The last twenty-five years or so have shown that the
American government wants God to live in shithole
housing with no health insurance, no child care, bare
bones job training, no welfare net, facing starvation,
violence, and/or imprisonment at every turn. And
that's a pretty shitty way to treat God.
So how could a storm like this not give the message
that it's time to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's,
motherfuckers, and stanch the arterial bleedout of tax
dollars to reward the wealthy. *****, God must think,
how many camels must be sacrificed through the eyes of
needles to make a fuckin' point?
The hurricane was God's way of telling the Republicans
(and their Democratic enablers) that they have sorely
fucked up God's work by undermining the environment at
every turn in favor of business concerns so that the
wealthy get wealthier, and, well, *****, there's
already piles of steamy camel guts to wade through to
make a point to them. The hurricane was God's way of
telling Republicans that eternal war means no peace
and here's a big fuckin' way to re-prioritize. The
hurricane was God's way of telling Republicans that
they are responsible for all screw-ups now, big and
small, and that God is, indeed, watching.
After the hurricane, God was surprised, though. Even
God could not foresee how badly the Bush
administration would botch its response, even God had
to say, "*****, that's some fucked up *****." But God
knows that the Devil, ah, the Devil is always around,
but the Devil can be defeated.
So if you hear some preacher here or there declaim
that God sent Katrina to New Orleans to stop the
sinning, simply agree and then ask, "What sins are you
talking about?"
(Oh, and God's message to the Democrats is this: It's
time to have a spine because God's got your back. And
if you ***** with God, well, God can ***** you harder.)
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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| Title: Re: storms and god |
07 Sep 2005 09:40:27 AM |
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"Wolf Shedler" <wolfshedler@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:hVpTe.9212$vN.427065@news20.bellglobal.com...
9/6/2005
A God's Eye View of Recent Events:
Sorry, but until this god is proven to exist, it cannot have a view.
--
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Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
#1557
Science doesn't burn people at the stake for disagreeing - Vic Sagerquist
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| User: "Jez" |
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| Title: Re: storms and god |
06 Sep 2005 11:03:16 PM |
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"Wolf Shedler" <wolfshedler@sympatico.ca> wrote in news:hVpTe.9212
$vN.427065@news20.bellglobal.com:
9/6/2005
A God's Eye View of Recent Events:
Oh, sweet Christians, yes, the mighty winds and floods
Sick.
So what's new ?
--
Jez, MBA.,
Country Dancing and Advanced Astrology, UBS.
'Realism is seductive because once you have accepted the reasonable
notion that you should base your actions on reality, you are too often
led to accept, without much questioning, someone else's version of what
that reality is. It is a crucial act of independent thinking to be
skeptical of someone else's description of reality.'-
Howard Zinn
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| User: "Woden" |
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| Title: Re: storms and god |
06 Sep 2005 07:50:35 PM |
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"Wolf Shedler" <wolfshedler@sympatico.ca> wrote in news:hVpTe.9212
$vN.427065@news20.bellglobal.com:
9/6/2005
A God's Eye View of Recent Events:
Oh, sweet Christians, yes, the mighty winds and floods
of Katrina are indeed the works of God, but, no, the
hurricane and its vengeful aftermath are not God's
penance on New Orleans and Biloxi for the sins of sex
Of course not, there aren't any gods.
(snip remainder of *****)
--
Woden
"religion is a socio-political system for controlling people's thoughts,
lives and actions based on ancient myths and superstitions, perpetrated
through generations of subtle yet pervasive brainwashing."
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| User: "Harry F. Leopold" |
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| Title: Re: storms and god |
07 Sep 2005 01:07:42 AM |
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On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 19:50:35 -0500, Woden wrote
(in article <Xns96C9D4B8E8B8Ewodencharternet@69.28.186.121>):
"Wolf Shedler" <wolfshedler@sympatico.ca> wrote in news:hVpTe.9212
$vN.427065@news20.bellglobal.com:
9/6/2005
A God's Eye View of Recent Events:
Oh, sweet Christians, yes, the mighty winds and floods
of Katrina are indeed the works of God, but, no, the
hurricane and its vengeful aftermath are not God's
penance on New Orleans and Biloxi for the sins of sex
Of course not, there aren't any gods.
(snip remainder of *****)
You should have read the entire thing, heavy sarcasm among other things.
Pretty good, I thought.
--
Harry F. Leopold
aa #2076
AA/Vet #4
The Prints of Darkness
(remove gene to email)
³I proclaim ignorance.³ - J McCoy
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