It's a MIRACLE!

[progressoid]

A natural disaster occurs and the old "miracle" canard returns.

God wipes out a good chunk of a town, but saves someones kitty. "It's a miracle!"





Every time I see it, I think of this.

[A HERETIC I AM]

1. Whenever I hear some victim of a disaster say......

(while they are standing in a pile of rubble that was their home and right next door their neighbor died, or they are standing in an untouched home and their neighbors was flattened...)

"It's a miracle we survived" ....or whatever.....

I want to tell them...


"No, it wasn't a miracle at all. It looks like god was trying to kill you and missed."

[Lordquinton]

19. To misquote Saved!

"The real miracle would have been not being hit by a tornado in the first place."

[Arugula Latte]

2. Yes, pray & give thanks to the invisible rat-bastard in the sky

who just rained down death and destruction, for He is merciful and loving!

[pokerfan]

3. Good question

[RebelOne]

4. Yes, I have been hearing tornado survivors say

that god protected them. Well, why did that ever-protecting god even allow the tornado to hit their town?

[FiveGoodMen]

5. As long as "miracle" means "unexpected good fortune" then, yes.

[OriginalGeek]

6. I just read in GD that a woman being interviewed by Blitzer

shut him down for asking all kinds of dumb religious questions - He told her she was blessed for surviving and asked her if she prayed and she said "Umm, actually I am an atheist".


I wish I knew who that woman was.

[LostOne4Ever]

7. Maybe God is sending them a message

That we are the real chosen ones

[FiveGoodMen]

8. Reminded me of: "When I hear things like that, I thank God I'm an atheist."

Mike Stivic on All in the Family

[progressoid]

11. Here she is...

[OriginalGeek]

16. cool, thanks!

[truegrit44]

15. I read that too and was amazed

because I spent 5 yrs in OK and I would have sworn there weren't any atheists there
She gets a big atta boy from me tho for having the nerve to say it!

[onager]

17. The Wolf interviewee is Rebecca Vitsmun

Hemant Mehta covered the Wolf Shitzer interview on his blog. The cute little rugrat trying to eat Wolf's microphone is her son, Anders:

Asked by Wolf Blitzer if She Thanked God for Surviving the Tornado, Oklahoma Woman Responds: ‘I’m Actually An Atheist’

May 21, 2013 By Hemant Mehta

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/05/21/asked-by-wolf-blitzer-if-she-thanked-god-for-surviving-the-tornado-oklahoma-woman-responds-im-actually-an-atheist/

ETA: I'm a little late, as usual. Some of the comments on the blog piece are good.

[OriginalGeek]

18. Is nymag.com an Oniony type thing?

they have this:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/05/oklahoma-atheist-wolf-blitzer-thank-lord-video.html

Oklahoma Tornado Survivor Has to Leave State Now, Forever, Thanks to Wolf Blitzer
By Dan Amira

And here is the entire article:

"I'm actually an atheist," the tornado survivor admitted to CNN's Wolf Blitzer, who had prodded her about whether she "thanked the Lord."
A Kickstarter campaign has already begun to relocate the woman and her family to the coast.

plus they embedded the youtube video from above.

Way to spin a yarn, Dan.

[onager]

20. Not AFAIK. You're right, that is weird.

New York magazine is usually straight-up journalism, and very good at it.

If that was an attempt at humor, it sure was an epic fail. Mr. Amira got hammered in the comments, and rightly so.

If he had just Googled, he would have found the very active Oklahoma Atheists group. I came across some of the OK Atheists on another board recently. They were organizing food/clothing collections immediately after the tornado, helping to search for the missing, etc.

http://www.oklahomaatheists.com/

[TxDemChem]

9. That always bothers me

The old lady whose dog survived felt blessed that god answered her two prayers, whereas many innocent children were killed. Blessed? No. Lucky? Yes!

[progressoid]

10. Yeah, that one. And this one...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022879432

and dozens more.

[TxDemChem]

13. So sad

I have always wondered if certain survivors feel some smug sense of righteousness after surviving an ordeal where others perish. I hope not, but I don't know.

[enlightenment]

12. Watching the OK local news station today

and a young lady was being interviewed, standing on the rubble that was once her home. She said the tornado was the "grace of god". I'm almost certain that grace had nothing to do with it.

It is astonishing how the faithful will turn off their brains in order to avoid the obvious. If cognitive dissonance was actually painful, there would probably be a lot fewer religious people.

[TxDemChem]

14. Agreed