What ever happened to good old fashioned smiting?

[Cyrano]

Back in the old days, we had a supreme deity that didn't have any qualms about smiting people.

Let's face it. At one time there was some kind of all-powerful entity that didn't have any problem with raining down fire and brimstone on cities, turning some chick into a pillar of salt, killing first-borns, taking names, kicking ass and, in general, not putting up with any crap. (Kinda' sounds like a Republican, doesn't it?)

But somewhere along the line, it seems that He/She/It turned into a wimp. Without going through a couple of millenia of history, let's just take a look at today.

Why haven't George W. Bush and Dick Cheney been smitten? Why hasn't Ann Coulter been turned into a pillar of salt substitute? How come no napalm has rained down on Washington's K Street? It would seem that the entity now in charge is a latte sipping, weak kneed whining liberal.

The moral to this tale is that, when you have the power, you can sip your latte and kick ass at the same time.

[Kutjara]

1. There's still plenty of smiting going on.

Just ask the poor, the ill-educated, the brown. They're having cans of smite-ass opened on them all the time. More proof, as if proof were needed, that God is an asshole.

[C_U_L8R]

2. I daydream about the good old days of

pillories and a basket of rotten fruit