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sinkingfeeling

(51,274 posts)
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 09:02 AM Mar 2015

Too bad I'm not on TV. I'd say the Oklahoma tornadoes are God's way

Last edited Thu Mar 26, 2015, 11:28 AM - Edit history (1)

of punishing the area for their racism, their hatred of the LGBT community, and for electing idiot Senators who deny climate change. I truly think God's pissed.

Oopsy! I guess only preachers are allowed to blame things on the sins of people.


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Too bad I'm not on TV. I'd say the Oklahoma tornadoes are God's way (Original Post) sinkingfeeling Mar 2015 OP
Mostly, it's the uneven heating of the Earth's surface, differences in air temps and humidity... NYC_SKP Mar 2015 #1
Result of Senatorial hot air? Downwinder Mar 2015 #27
I disagree, clearly God's Wrath...like global warming is just Him giving a hug. Fred Sanders Mar 2015 #53
Well, if you have a true calling, you too could be a preacher... malthaussen Mar 2015 #2
Well if you feel the need to be a real asshole about it, the internet is as good as TV CBGLuthier Mar 2015 #3
Because every time something happens, Christian idiots get on TV and tell us sinkingfeeling Mar 2015 #5
If it's good for the goose, etc. hobbit709 Mar 2015 #6
How is your wife, CBGLuthier? beam me up scottie Mar 2015 #7
Actually she is doing fine. All medical problems behind her. We have relocated to Mauritius CBGLuthier Mar 2015 #71
Jury Results stone space Mar 2015 #19
I was thinking the same thing this morning. Not Me Mar 2015 #4
Don't forget FRACKING! /nt RiverLover Mar 2015 #8
Remind us -- how exactly does fracking fit into this equation? Buzz Clik Mar 2015 #11
God's punishment for fracking. That is what one could say about OK tornadoes. Obvious. RiverLover Mar 2015 #15
Nice balanced analaysis. Let me summarize: Buzz Clik Mar 2015 #69
Every year during tornado season we get crap like this from people like you. NaturalHigh Mar 2015 #9
her profile says she is from Arkansas!! LOL OKNancy Mar 2015 #17
And she's knocking us? Good grief! NaturalHigh Mar 2015 #20
Do you think you're immune from criticism because you are not a televangelist? Buzz Clik Mar 2015 #10
+1 OKNancy Mar 2015 #14
Post removed Post removed Mar 2015 #12
Arkansas has it's share of tornadoes and natural disasters. OKNancy Mar 2015 #13
Post removed Post removed Mar 2015 #18
all my friends and family are Democrats OKNancy Mar 2015 #21
From Arkansas, I am so sorry for the death and damage! janlyn Mar 2015 #30
Thanks janlyn. NaturalHigh Mar 2015 #42
hugs back to you! OKNancy Mar 2015 #44
And from what magical and enlightened state do you hail? NaturalHigh Mar 2015 #23
Was worried about you. hrmjustin Mar 2015 #45
Absolutely correct. You can add Arkansas to the title. sinkingfeeling Mar 2015 #63
If they can dish it, they should be able to take it. I agree with you. eom BlueCaliDem Mar 2015 #16
Jury Results for post #12 stone space Mar 2015 #22
Good. I'm sick of people like that. NaturalHigh Mar 2015 #25
Kudos to Jurors #3 and #5 for reminding me why I'm a Democrat. - nt KingCharlemagne Mar 2015 #29
Good hide. hrmjustin Mar 2015 #50
Ugly thread you got here. Iowa has tornados, too. Are we next in line? (nt) stone space Mar 2015 #24
What is wrong you people, this poster is MAKING FUN of the crazy preachers who blame natural RiverLover Mar 2015 #26
Thank you. sinkingfeeling Mar 2015 #32
That's what I thought too... gaspee Mar 2015 #34
I took it as an insult to Worried senior Mar 2015 #62
+1000 kath Mar 2015 #49
There's a little persecution complex going on, I think. Mariana Mar 2015 #66
Many lady athletes and their fans are headed there the next few days for the NCAA tourney... cascadiance Mar 2015 #28
"Lady athletes"? What about the gentlemen athletes? kath Mar 2015 #51
I don't think Oklahoma is hosting any men's tournament games this year. NaturalHigh Mar 2015 #54
And wouldn't want anything to happen to male athletes then either... cascadiance Mar 2015 #59
I didn't know about the plane being diverted. NaturalHigh Mar 2015 #65
I feel a few folks have missed my point. I'm NOT a TV preacher so I don't sinkingfeeling Mar 2015 #31
Some of us do get what you meant sunnystarr Mar 2015 #38
So sad you had to post this to make your obvious point. Clearly you should also put the RiverLover Mar 2015 #39
Secretly, I don't know how to put the sarcasm tag in an OP. sinkingfeeling Mar 2015 #40
There's two ways jeff47 Mar 2015 #48
that's why I keep bringing up this -ism MisterP Mar 2015 #64
They missed your point on purpose. Mariana Mar 2015 #67
I live a few miles from where the Moore tornado occured. redstatebluegirl Mar 2015 #33
No, I'm not saying that, but Rev. Pat Robertson said that enough sinkingfeeling Mar 2015 #36
If I thought praying would have protected those kids in that school redstatebluegirl Mar 2015 #41
OK, what is happening here? gaspee Mar 2015 #35
Right? RiverLover Mar 2015 #37
I guess some of us don't appreciate sarcasm when it hits so close to home. redstatebluegirl Mar 2015 #43
Making a sarcastic comment on the hypocrisy of TV evangelists doesn't take away from RiverLover Mar 2015 #47
The collective IQ and reading comprehension level of DU indeed seems to have fallen down through the kath Mar 2015 #52
I remember those days. Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2015 #55
Pretty funny stuff libodem Mar 2015 #46
I am astonished at how many people here couldn't figure out SheilaT Mar 2015 #56
It's quite possible to be sarcastic... NaturalHigh Mar 2015 #57
Except what she said was not mean-spirited, hateful, and ugly. SheilaT Mar 2015 #58
but...but...but...RED STATE?!?! Behind the Aegis Mar 2015 #60
Glad you're okay too BTA. NaturalHigh Mar 2015 #61
Some people enjoy feeling persecuted. Mariana Mar 2015 #68
I hate making light of tragedy, but my first thought was: Vinca Mar 2015 #70
 

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
1. Mostly, it's the uneven heating of the Earth's surface, differences in air temps and humidity...
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 09:05 AM
Mar 2015

Conduction and convection.

In the end, tornadoes are solar powered weather phenomena.

I've observed water spouts over the Caribbean. They are mesmerizing.

malthaussen

(17,065 posts)
2. Well, if you have a true calling, you too could be a preacher...
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 09:07 AM
Mar 2015

... education not required. All you need is the ability to project passionate belief.

Oh, and no scruples at all.

-- Mal

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)
3. Well if you feel the need to be a real asshole about it, the internet is as good as TV
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 09:18 AM
Mar 2015

Why do you feel you have any moral superiority to them? Why is it every fucking time, over the last decade, whether it is fires or tornadoes some dimwit gets on DU and shits on people?

sinkingfeeling

(51,274 posts)
5. Because every time something happens, Christian idiots get on TV and tell us
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 09:21 AM
Mar 2015

it's all because their god is displeased. Because women have abortions or two gays marry. The lovely 'Christian' TV preachers shit on everybody that doesn't send them $20 a week. Why do they have moral superiority?

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)
6. If it's good for the goose, etc.
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 09:24 AM
Mar 2015

These idiots don't hesitate to say gawd is punishing the people when it happens to someone else.

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)
7. How is your wife, CBGLuthier?
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 09:25 AM
Mar 2015

It's been a while since I talked to you, I hope she's well.

Don't let the op get you down, it's just business as usual in GD.

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)
71. Actually she is doing fine. All medical problems behind her. We have relocated to Mauritius
Fri Mar 27, 2015, 08:07 AM
Mar 2015

for a few years so our main issues nowadays are culture shock. Getting used to having to kiss everyone on both cheeks (French Cultural Influence) and the cars on the wrong side of the road (English Colonial Influence) and the fact that everyone but us speaks three languages, French, English, and Creole.

 

stone space

(6,498 posts)
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Not Me

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4. I was thinking the same thing this morning.
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 09:18 AM
Mar 2015

You can bet that any disaster that occurs after SOTUS rules on marriage equality will be linked to teh gays.

RiverLover

(7,830 posts)
15. God's punishment for fracking. That is what one could say about OK tornadoes. Obvious.
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 09:45 AM
Mar 2015

Along with their record number of earthquakes from fracking waste disposal...

Unless you are actually FOR cracking apart the earth beneath us, destroying millions of gallons of water, creating radioactive & cancerous fracking waste, creating methane flares for faster climate change, wrecking small towns & their drinking water, killing widlife in fracking accidents, etc.

 

Buzz Clik

(38,437 posts)
69. Nice balanced analaysis. Let me summarize:
Fri Mar 27, 2015, 07:48 AM
Mar 2015

You think that God should punish every citizen in every state (or make an example of a few) in which fracking occurs, even if the citizens being punished a) aren't doing the fracking and b) have no way to control the fracking.

That attitude is why most people on this board despise televangelists. Are you better than that?

NaturalHigh

(12,778 posts)
9. Every year during tornado season we get crap like this from people like you.
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 09:31 AM
Mar 2015

You know that somebody died last night and a lot of people lost their homes, right? Try to show a little class.

NaturalHigh

(12,778 posts)
20. And she's knocking us? Good grief!
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 09:50 AM
Mar 2015

Arkansas doesn't exactly strike me as the land of enlightenment.

 

Buzz Clik

(38,437 posts)
10. Do you think you're immune from criticism because you are not a televangelist?
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 09:38 AM
Mar 2015

You're not immune: your comments are sickening. If you had a conscience, you'd delete the OP.

Response to sinkingfeeling (Original post)

OKNancy

(41,832 posts)
13. Arkansas has it's share of tornadoes and natural disasters.
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 09:44 AM
Mar 2015

Your state is not without it's share of racists as well.

It sickens me to read these broad-brush attacks when most Oklahomans I know are good people.

Response to OKNancy (Reply #13)

OKNancy

(41,832 posts)
21. all my friends and family are Democrats
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 09:55 AM
Mar 2015

and they have good manners as well. They don't get on the internet and slam people they don't know.

ETA: uh oh.. you can't respond. LOL

janlyn

(735 posts)
30. From Arkansas, I am so sorry for the death and damage!
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 10:22 AM
Mar 2015

Having been in 2 tornadoes myself, I could never wish that on anyone! And it is the height of rudeness to wish ill to others !Hugs from Arkansas

 

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RiverLover

(7,830 posts)
26. What is wrong you people, this poster is MAKING FUN of the crazy preachers who blame natural
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 10:14 AM
Mar 2015

disasters on things like Gay Marriage, but they do it ONLY when it happens in BLUE STATES. Never when it happens in places like OK.

It should be obvious.

Geesh. Get a grip.

gaspee

(3,231 posts)
34. That's what I thought too...
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 10:30 AM
Mar 2015

And then some people decided to lose their collective shit and I was all - WTF? Reading comprehension, anyone?

Mariana

(14,847 posts)
66. There's a little persecution complex going on, I think.
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 02:33 PM
Mar 2015

Amazing that anyone on this site would stick up for the likes of Pat Robertson and the late Jerry Falwell.

 

cascadiance

(19,537 posts)
28. Many lady athletes and their fans are headed there the next few days for the NCAA tourney...
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 10:16 AM
Mar 2015

I hope you aren't also wishing destructive weather on them, and possibly the planes they are flying in on.

NaturalHigh

(12,778 posts)
54. I don't think Oklahoma is hosting any men's tournament games this year.
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 11:52 AM
Mar 2015

Oklahoma City is hosting two rounds next year.

 

cascadiance

(19,537 posts)
59. And wouldn't want anything to happen to male athletes then either...
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 01:25 PM
Mar 2015

Apparently one of the planes from South Bend (Notre Dame) was rerouted from Oklahoma City on Wednesday to avoid the storms then and they had to ride in by bus.

http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/article16340588.html

All of those teams flew in on Wednesday, as I suspect many of their fans too. It would have been horrible if one of those storms had caused one of those planes to crash. I would think then we'd want to rethink the sentiments of the OP had that happened. Likewise, I think for those who did suffer in those storms there, I think they deserve our sympathy as Democrats with our traditional values, whether they are Republicans or some other political persuasion/party. We don't have to respond to the Pat Robertsons of the world in the same fashion they act.

NaturalHigh

(12,778 posts)
65. I didn't know about the plane being diverted.
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 02:22 PM
Mar 2015

Seeing the skies in my part of the state last night, I wouldn't have wanted to fly over Oklahoma either. It's been a long time since lightning lit things up like that around here.

sinkingfeeling

(51,274 posts)
31. I feel a few folks have missed my point. I'm NOT a TV preacher so I don't
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 10:24 AM
Mar 2015

think God is doing bad things because of the state's people. I'm trying to point out that if the tornadoes last night (there 4 in my county) were some place else, some would say it was just punishment from God. Here's a few examples:

A day after Haiti’s devastating 2009 earthquake, U.S. Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson said the disaster was provoked by the Haitians' "pact to the devil."

“All hurricanes are acts of God, because God controls the heavens,” John Hagee, a Texas-based evangelical pastor who leads the Christian Zionist movement in the United States, said after Katrina. “I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, and they are - were recipients of the judgment of God for that."

Two days after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, the Rev. Jerry Falwell said the attacks were, at least in part, God’s judgment on those who would secularize American public life.

"God is systematically destroying America," McTernan wrote in a blog post on his website this week. "Just look at what has happened this year." (Hurricane Sandy)

Northridge Earthquake, 1994
Pat Robertson said the 6.7 magnitude earthquake in Los Angeles County's San Fernando Valley, which caused about $25 billion in damage and 72 deaths, could be attributed to God's displeasure with gays and lesbians, pro-choice activists, and "perversity," he said.

Hurricane Bonnie, 1988
Pat Robertson tried to pre-emptively blame gay revelers at Disney World's Gay Days Weekend for being the cause of the pending storm.

Tsunami, 2011
Just a couple of months later, (Cindy) Jacobs added that homosexuality caused the 9.0 magnitude earthquake, which prompted a destructive tsunami in eastern Japan, causing 15,870 deaths and $235 billion in damage.

A year later, Megachurch Pastor John Haggee of San Antonio, Texas, said “God caused Hurricane Katrina to wipe out New Orleans because it had a gay pride parade the week before and was filled with sexual sin.”


"You know what, God is not one that is going to wink at sin," Olsen said in a video. "God is shaking. If anybody looks at the news and has just seen what's been happening recently with the floods, the fires, the tornadoes, God is shaking. Yeah I think you have God shaking, sure you have the enemy shaking, you have both and I don't want to say oh that's the judgment of God or that's the enemy. But the reality is God is judging us, and I think it's going to get worse."

http://www.advocate.com/politics/2012/10/31/10-disasters-gays-were-blamed-causing?page=full
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/16/6-other-calamities-blamed-on-divine-retribution/

sunnystarr

(2,638 posts)
38. Some of us do get what you meant
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 10:45 AM
Mar 2015

and the spirit in which you posted it. I'm willing to bet that everyone who read it got it too but ya know you have to be politically correct even on DU because there are the finger pointers who would suggest that because there was loss of life and property only sympathy can be observed or expressed. Then you have the followers of the finger pointers and you get piled up on.

I'd like to believe that everyone is capable of observing events with more than one view or focus. One doesn't denigrate the other because the foundation (focus) is totally different.

RiverLover

(7,830 posts)
39. So sad you had to post this to make your obvious point. Clearly you should also put the
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 10:47 AM
Mar 2015
tag in the OP to simplify it for those who need it.

jeff47

(26,549 posts)
48. There's two ways
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 11:23 AM
Mar 2015

Way one: Click the "smilies" button between your title and message text. Then you can click on the smilely you want to insert into your post. To get the larger smilies, like , you will have to click on the "..." button at the end of the list.

Way two: type : sarcasm : where you want the smiley, without the spaces between the word and the colons (I had to put in spaces so it would show the text instead of the smiley)

MisterP

(23,730 posts)
64. that's why I keep bringing up this -ism
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 02:16 PM
Mar 2015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providentialism

where everything from a quark-flip to a supernova is divine will: it was really big in mid-18th-c. Methodist revivalism in Britain, and seeped into the CoE at which point William Blake tore it a new one: it often pops up in rhetoric, but it's a real big *movement* in the US, yoked to prosperity gospel and social Darwinism

a big part of this is only half the country's in "mainstream" denominations: since the 1960s US religion has been dominated by DIY churches--one congregation, one minister

frankly they SHOULD teach all this in HS!

redstatebluegirl

(12,264 posts)
33. I live a few miles from where the Moore tornado occured.
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 10:25 AM
Mar 2015

Not even close to being funny. Natural disasters happen everywhere in this country not just in OK. Are you saying that killing 7 children in 2013 was God's way of getting back at Oklahoma for it's politics?

I'm nowhere close to being comfortable with the politics in this state, I don't identify as a Christian either, however there are really good and caring people here who don't deserve this type of hatred. I also don't believe that the guy in the sky would go after kids or be that hateful.

I am sure I will get slammed for this, but I couldn't let this go without saying something.

sinkingfeeling

(51,274 posts)
36. No, I'm not saying that, but Rev. Pat Robertson said that enough
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 10:43 AM
Mar 2015

people weren't praying.

"If enough people were praying (God) would’ve intervened, you could pray, Jesus stilled the storm, you can still storms,” Robertson said on the show.

redstatebluegirl

(12,264 posts)
41. If I thought praying would have protected those kids in that school
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 10:54 AM
Mar 2015

I think even I would have tried to pray.

gaspee

(3,231 posts)
35. OK, what is happening here?
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 10:33 AM
Mar 2015

Has the collective IQ of DU fallen so much in the months I haven't been here? This was clearly sarcasm, not the OP stating a belief. How odd...

redstatebluegirl

(12,264 posts)
43. I guess some of us don't appreciate sarcasm when it hits so close to home.
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 10:55 AM
Mar 2015

Sorry to disappoint you, I knew it was sarcasm, I just didn't see the humor in it.

RiverLover

(7,830 posts)
47. Making a sarcastic comment on the hypocrisy of TV evangelists doesn't take away from
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 11:19 AM
Mar 2015

the tragedy of the destruction caused by the tornadoes.

It doesn't speak to the tornadoes at all, only TV evangelists who use natural disasters as a way to stump their anti-gay rhetoric.

Hello?

kath

(10,565 posts)
52. The collective IQ and reading comprehension level of DU indeed seems to have fallen down through the
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 11:49 AM
Mar 2015

Lowest basement some days.
Sheesh!

And years back, it used to be frequently be stated here that the Freepers couldn't grasp satire/parody because they were too stupid...

Tuesday Afternoon

(56,912 posts)
55. I remember those days.
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 12:06 PM
Mar 2015

sharp witted and quick. This place used to Fly. Now, it just seems to crawl ... lingering ....

I don't know.

Just different ... still DU but, not DU.

 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
56. I am astonished at how many people here couldn't figure out
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 12:38 PM
Mar 2015

that you were being sarcastic, even without the tag.

NaturalHigh

(12,778 posts)
57. It's quite possible to be sarcastic...
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 12:39 PM
Mar 2015

and still be mean-spirited, hateful, and ugly. It's quite common in fact.

 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
58. Except what she said was not mean-spirited, hateful, and ugly.
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 01:21 PM
Mar 2015

It was so obviously sarcasm, aimed at those who do say the sorts of things the OP parodies: that disasters happen because god is punishing the gay, or women who have abortions, or some such.

If people here can't understand parody, well, I'm not sure what to say as the first three things I thought of simply weren't very nice so I'm not going to say them.

Behind the Aegis

(53,823 posts)
60. but...but...but...RED STATE?!?!
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 01:29 PM
Mar 2015

Some seem to forget there are many of us who live in this state, we are simply "abstract" to them. The "other." Glad you are OK.

Mariana

(14,847 posts)
68. Some people enjoy feeling persecuted.
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 02:37 PM
Mar 2015

They'll make shit up if they have to, in order to have an excuse to get indignant.

Vinca

(50,168 posts)
70. I hate making light of tragedy, but my first thought was:
Fri Mar 27, 2015, 07:59 AM
Mar 2015

more tornadoes for Jesusland. The kicker is when they stand in front of their demolished home/church/school and say, "God is testing us." Apparently, it isn't an intelligence test.

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