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Old 05-24-2011, 04:33 PM
 
Location: New Mexico
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The answer should be obvious to everyone on this forum.

Obama is from Illinois.

Illinois = heartland

God is punishing the heartland for sending Obama to the White House. The fact that Illinois has been spared is irrelevant.





















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Old 05-24-2011, 04:39 PM
 
Location: Neither here nor there
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The title is Politics and other Controversies.
The religious arguments belong in the Religion Forum, especially one with a premise as contentious as this one.
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Old 05-24-2011, 05:00 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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If you follow your bible..the Tribulation follows the Rapture (which occurred 5/21 as we all know).
Now for those that are left here, and you know who you are, we're in the Tribulation times.
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Old 05-24-2011, 05:06 PM
 
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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yup, disastrous storms, dying children, trajic events of all sorts. . . . .that's the problem with "believing in god". . . . .

If the concept of god has any reality at all, it is only possible to assume that all is exactly as it should be.
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Old 05-24-2011, 05:08 PM
 
Location: The D-M-V area
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I hope everyone affected by the tornadoes find comfort somewhere tonight.

God has nothing to do with what happens to mankind. It's why God gave us free will.

Brainwashing from organized religions has people believing there's some big eyeball in the sky making volcanoes erupt and earthquakes happen.

Who's got the red-phone line into God's judgment chamber? Nobody.

Sad really. Very sad.
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Old 05-24-2011, 05:08 PM
 
Location: Georgia, on the Florida line, right above Tallahassee
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Why is God punishing "The American Heartland"
Any ideas?


Tornado Hits the Heartland: Is God Punishing Us?

The city of Joplin, Missouri is in ruins today, the most recent casualty of the worst storm season in more than half a century. In April, tornadoes ripped through Alabama, and swaths of greater Memphis spent part of early May underwater thanks to record-high flooding of the Mississippi river. If you didn’t know better, you’d think this was some kind of Divine punishment visited upon the South—and now the Midwest, the American heartland.
Which is funny, because when earthquakes struck Haiti, wildfires burned Israel, and a tsunami drenched much of Indonesia, plenty of religious leaders didn’t know better. Remember? How Pat Robertson blamed the Haitian earthquake on an 18th century pact with the devil? Or when Sephardic Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi Ovadia Yosef blamed Israel’s latest bout of wildfires on secular Israelis not keeping the Sabbath? Or how about the time some Christian fundamentalists said that he 2005 tsunami in Indonesia was punishment for, in the words of one, “worldliness, materialism, hedonism, uncleanness and pleasure-seeking”? Where are these self-proclaimed prophets of Godly vengeance now? Do storms only evince heavenly displeasure when they land on blue states?



Mod.... Need a poll with these options
- Evangelicals
- Racists
- Republicans
- God needs a GPS

Note: video has animated gore at the end. It's also totally politically incorrect.

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Old 05-24-2011, 05:09 PM
 
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The answer should be obvious to everyone on this forum.
Obama is from Illinois.
Illinois = heartland
Now he's from Illinois?
I thought he was from Kenya
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Old 05-24-2011, 05:21 PM
 
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Now he's from Illinois?
I thought he was from Kenya
some folks just have to have it both ways. . . .
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Old 05-24-2011, 05:36 PM
 
Location: Midwest
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It's hell on earth, you forget. God/Christ saves us for heaven which is Their kingdom, this one isn't the real kingdom.
In other words, your god is going to "let er rip" on us while we are on earth?

Perhaps God's name isn't Jesus after all. Maybe we enraged the Muslim god when we killed Osama! I know, its Obama's fault!!!!!
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Old 05-24-2011, 05:40 PM
 
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Why is God punishing "The American Heartland"
Any ideas?


Tornado Hits the Heartland: Is God Punishing Us?

The city of Joplin, Missouri is in ruins today, the most recent casualty of the worst storm season in more than half a century. In April, tornadoes ripped through Alabama, and swaths of greater Memphis spent part of early May underwater thanks to record-high flooding of the Mississippi river. If you didn’t know better, you’d think this was some kind of Divine punishment visited upon the South—and now the Midwest, the American heartland.
Which is funny, because when earthquakes struck Haiti, wildfires burned Israel, and a tsunami drenched much of Indonesia, plenty of religious leaders didn’t know better. Remember? How Pat Robertson blamed the Haitian earthquake on an 18th century pact with the devil? Or when Sephardic Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi Ovadia Yosef blamed Israel’s latest bout of wildfires on secular Israelis not keeping the Sabbath? Or how about the time some Christian fundamentalists said that he 2005 tsunami in Indonesia was punishment for, in the words of one, “worldliness, materialism, hedonism, uncleanness and pleasure-seeking”? Where are these self-proclaimed prophets of Godly vengeance now? Do storms only evince heavenly displeasure when they land on blue states?



Mod.... Need a poll with these options
- Evangelicals
- Racists
- Republicans
- God needs a GPS
Well I'm an atheist and tornadoes went through my state Sunday and I'm fine...haha YOUR god likes me better..nyah nyah!!
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