Is God Shooting Hurricanes At Bush's Crawford Compound? He Gettin' Closer

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[greatauntoftriplets]

1. This is insensitive...

There are DU members who have had to evacuate because of hurricanes, and who have already suffered damage.

The likelihood of their ever getting near Crawford is minimal. Have some compassion.

[MAlibdem]

2. not just DUers...

actual, living, breathing humans...

not everything is an amusing abstraction you know

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4. I think Bush has put us at the risk of the wrath of many forces

It's not an unusual or unique observation. I ask is God trying to exact revenge on Bush. I don't relish the thought that we're in the way. I included a frowning devil. It is an abstract thought. It is a commentary. I've seen insensitivities in commentary here that are not so obliquely directed. How do we know that nature and God don't conspire? Again, it's not an original thought. It's a pretty common belief that I share.

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3. I'll take the post down

I didn't mean to be insensitive. Christ. Can't get any traction here. I tried to lighten up. I feel the weight of tragic events and I do my best to help in any way I can. It was just a statement about the ireverance of Bush and his presidency. That's it.

edit: I'll let it ride and take whatever heat there is. Sad that this is the post that get a rise.

[Connie_Corleone]

11. It's not insensitive.

You're just bringing a little levity to the situation. Nothing wrong with that.

[carpetbagger]

5. I disagree. I think the post raises some legit questions.

Let's face it. We live in a nation who's dominant religion often takes to such tea-leaf reading. We have Pat Robertson claiming divine favor for his TV studios, and saying God told him Bush would win. Bush, in turn, said God told him to go to war in Iraq.

In going to war with Iraq, we broke at least six of the 10 commandments. Yet in, you guessed it, Alabama, certain people, with great popular support, tried to dump off a rock slab mocking those commandments for their own gain, all the while pursuing policies counter to the message of Jesus.

So now we have a hurricane bearing down on Alabama, nicking Scarborough Country and the casinos that dot the coast of "God fearing" Mississippi, whose fear of God evidently ends when fear of taxes begins regarding gambling. A hurricane that skirts Cuba, and slams straight through the Cayman Islands, the pirate's nest of the 21st century, where Bush sent his corporation.

Posts like this do not mock the people in Alabama. they mock the Oral Robertses, Jerry Falwells, Pat Robertsons and George Bushes of the world who read nature to conveniently suit their desires. Perhaps they mock the people who claim divine intervention in their lives, but I think it's a damn righteous thing to do so in defense of those whose lives are not spared by whatever forces get attributed to higher beings.

Yes, people will die tonight. As I would not claim lack of divine intervention as a cause of their deaths, I will dubiously consider the claims of those who believe their survival was some reward not given to those who died. And I will gladly chuckle at those who poke fun at the people who use these ideas to support their businesses (religious and secular) and their wars (religious and secular).

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6. Are Hurricanes and Tornados Acts of God

as it reads in homowners insurance policies?

[sr_pacifica]

8. Well said

Uncanny about the track this hurricane has taken, just nicking Cuba, and doing less damage in Jamaica than expected, but ramming through the capital of offshore accounts...and now the deep, god-fearing south. Really, these people who are so ready to see God's hand at work through Bush and company---what are they making of all this?

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9. Bush sure thinks he's God's instrument. He figures he's on the right side.

"We do not know -- we do not claim to know all the ways of Providence, yet we can trust in them, placing our confidence in the loving God behind all of life, and all of history."

January 28, 2003 Bush State of the Union

[newyawker99]

10. Hi sr_pacifica!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[drdigi420]

7. if there was a god, bush would never have left Crawford