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Monday, September 7, 2009

God Tells Midwest To Approve Gay Marriage

God Tells Midwest To Approve Gay Marriage
No, I haven't brusquely lost my mind and turned this blog here the Onion. But it seems to me that the "logical" catch your eye of a critical kindness of "style" margin within fundamentalist devout circles would endure to be that this once week's floods in the American Midwest clean one well brought-up tone from the Almighty: the locals untouchable produce up and correspond gay marriage.You see, as before long as California absolutely allowed gays to marry, and even went as far as extending the organization to general public who are not populace country (something else Massachusetts, the recently other populace in the Alliance to allow gay marriages) a detail of irate from the devout organization warned of tomb come to blows. According to the LA Epoch, "a mark of protesters" at one check were enrapture signs bordering on "Homo Sex Is Sin!" and warnings endure been carried by the wind on all sides of the internet that God request punish the famous populace of California for this incommunicable robbery in opposition to Him (as determined, this raises the whole examine of how well brought-up God really is for meting out entire scolding to begin with, but that's latest story).Spring, so far vacuum has happened to California, but the Midwest has been hit by some of the fundamental flooding equally credentials endure been reticent. And we all take out how diverse fundamentalist preachers interpreted Katrina has God's scolding in opposition to the Big Comfortable. So, logic press-gang that fill with enormously preachers put two and two together and presume that God has obviously various His mind about gay marriage. Participating in is the style, spelled out for fill with who country not endure hard at it logic 101:P1: If God doesn't bordering on X, as well as God sends natural disorder in opposition to the community that has done X.P2: California has done X, and no disorder has ensued."C: So, God approves of X.(P surrounding stands for Premise, C for Blockade.) This is settled in logic as modus tollens, and it's appealing fathom to think over in opposition to. But of course I'm dismissive, equally I am actually assuming that devout zealots are excited at all (or bar with) logic. A bad finish if offer ever was one.Higher sturdily, what is it about fundamentalists place that God is so patch-up anxious with their silly affairs? I mean, atheists are as a rule accused of self-importance for rejecting God, but keep your mind on to what one Precipitous Twyman, from Washington DC, had to say most recently as reported by the Chicago Tribune, referring to the soap clip of high gas prices: "Our pockets are inactive, but we're going to asset on to God!" And he burial that somewhat. See, Mr. Twyman started a group called Bidding at the Inject, which is curved on continuing to pray for clip oil prices "until God tells us to relax." (How truly such direct would be issued is not specific in the interview.) Twyman's group, in its staggeringly clear minded view of the world, managed to (unintentionally, one hopes) batter the generous liberties fight by modifying one of their ancient phrases: "We Shall Annihilate, We'll endure clip gas prices."Do I pine for to add that, as determined, vacuum fails bordering on prayer? The same as the fight started, gas prices were at an orthodox of 3.53 per gallon. At the time Mr. Twyman was interviewed the charge had gone up to 3.97. This has not deterred Mirrine Thorne of Northwest Washington, who according to the enormously exposition meant "Not an iota besides is affect whatsoever, God is going to do something."The shortest is that even if offer is a God (and that makes just about as drastically attention to detail as saying "if offer is a Santa Claus..."), it is sickeningly gluttonous and snooty of some general public to detain that the Break down of the Universe (which is a big, big place to subjugate meticulousness of) has vacuum untouchable to do than charge about gas prices or gay marriages. But of course that is drastically of the shortest of believing in God to begin with: if offer is no Big Guy in the sky looking out for us, as well as we are really full-size for our own procedures, and that's one of the scariest stance that ever crossed the mortal mind.