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Old 03-03-2007
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Re: GOD is punishing us with Tornadoes and Hurricanes because of our immoral ways.

If you hear the voice of God in your head sometimes....that makes you a pschyzofrenic! God is not punishing us. God gave us free will. When tornadoes happen, that's because of specific scientific reasons in nature. Man, what's with America? Or maybe it's just the religious extremist people who believe these fairy tales to be the actual word of God. It makes me impatient. Believing this stuff is like giving credence to Santa or the Easter Bunny; the stuff of fairy tales and childhood. Wake up. There's an unnecessary war and global warming and terrorism to deal with. It's "for real" stuff, not big pappy is mad at us in the sky crap.
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Re: GOD is punishing us with Tornadoes and Hurricanes because of our immoral ways.

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Kinda silly. By your logic, it shouldn't be the bible belt states that keep getting hit with tornados, floods, hurricans.... yadda yadda.

Maybe He's just angry that you guys keep speaking for Him?

Yeah, I think what pisses God off the most is having people presume to speak for Her when they don't know wtf they're talking about.
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Re: GOD is punishing us with Tornadoes and Hurricanes because of our immoral ways.

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Actually this seems pretty typical of a number of threads on various different issues. All one has to do is:

1) Find a fringe, extremist, or otherwise ludicrous sounding position taken by some group you don't like (be they religious, political, environmental, whatever...)

2) Present said ludicrous argument for "discussion".

3) Bash the entirity of the group you don't like for having such a stupid, ludicrous position.
I hate it when people do this. It detracts from serious and meaningful discussion.
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Re: GOD is punishing us with Tornadoes and Hurricanes because of our immoral ways.

God must be really pissed at the south. He spawned tornado's.
I guess he was getting tired of their excessive worship and decided to kill a few.

Go God. You sick son of a bitch.
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Re: GOD is punishing us with Tornadoes and Hurricanes because of our immoral ways.

After reading so many damning claims by worshippers, I am now conviced:

God is into S&M. You know, whips and chains, and pain. Pain and pleasure: indivisible.

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Re: GOD is punishing us with Tornadoes and Hurricanes because of our immoral ways.

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After reading so many damning claims by worshippers, I am now conviced:

God is into S&M. You know, whips and chains, and pain. Pain and pleasure: indivisible.

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Of course he does. God is a sadomasochist. He turns on to torture people, and he turns on being tortured aswell (through Jesus).
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Re: GOD is punishing us with Tornadoes and Hurricanes because of our immoral ways.

You know all these "God is a Sadomasochist" claims might work if God actually punished people with natural disasters, but since he doesn't all these claims are just a little bit wrong. No wait, there some of the most theologically incorrect statements ever.
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Re: GOD is punishing us with Tornadoes and Hurricanes because of our immoral ways.

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You know all these "God is a Sadomasochist" claims might work if God actually punished people with natural disasters, but since he doesn't all these claims are just a little bit wrong. No wait, there some of the most theologically incorrect statements ever.
Of course, if the Old Testament is to be believed, God did systematically drown almost everyone on Earth, and slaughter the first born male children of an entire people...
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Of course, if the Old Testament is to be believed, God did systematically drown almost everyone on Earth, and slaughter the first born male children of an entire people...
Yeah, but he mellowed out quite a bit after his kid was born. I guess being a parent does this to some.
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Of course, if the Old Testament is to be believed, God did systematically drown almost everyone on Earth, and slaughter the first born male children of an entire people...
See there can be this great distinction between believing the Old Testament and not taking the stories literally. I believe the Old Testament, but i don't believe God actually drowned everyone. I believe the theological truth at the end of that story that says God will never do that again. Everyone seems to forget that part of the story
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Re: GOD is punishing us with Tornadoes and Hurricanes because of our immoral ways.

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See there can be this great distinction between believing the Old Testament and not taking the stories literally. I believe the Old Testament, but i don't believe God actually drowned everyone. I believe the theological truth at the end of that story that says God will never do that again. Everyone seems to forget that part of the story
What? Your god will never do again what he didn't do? I don't understand.
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What? Your god will never do again what he didn't do? I don't understand.
The actual verse says "the LORD said 'I will never agains curse the gorund because of humankind..." The theological truth is that God has promised not to destroy all of earth. The other theological truth is don't do evil. Whether or not it actually happened doesn't matter.
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The actual verse says "the LORD said 'I will never agains curse the gorund because of humankind..." The theological truth is that God has promised not to destroy all of earth. The other theological truth is don't do evil. Whether or not it actually happened doesn't matter.
Yes, I know it says either "again" or "any more" but how can you call it a theological truth that your god promises not to destroy the earth again (or any more) and not believe that he didn't destroy it before?
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Re: GOD is punishing us with Tornadoes and Hurricanes because of our immoral ways.

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See there can be this great distinction between believing the Old Testament and not taking the stories literally. I believe the Old Testament, but i don't believe God actually drowned everyone. I believe the theological truth at the end of that story that says God will never do that again. Everyone seems to forget that part of the story
But if God never did it in the first place, how can it be that he will never do it again?
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Re: GOD is punishing us with Tornadoes and Hurricanes because of our immoral ways.

My only comment to this whole thread is ???????? DUH!!!!!!!
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