NEWS FLASH
This just in from MSNBC (from the television program "Scarborough Country", from the mouth of Jennifer Giroux, director, Women Influencing the Nation:The 175,000 people killed in the recent tsunamis was "punishment from a vengeful god".....and "God has always used plagues, floods and natural disasters as a source of punishment."
she goes on to say this:
"Look at what we're looking with just in this country with cloning, homosexuality, trying to make homosexual marriages, abortion, lack of God in the schools, taking Jesus out of Christmas. I can't pretend to know the mind of God. But, historically, there have been warnings. And God, who is all-loving and all-good, and he will not be mocked."
???
Is this not just a little bit sick?
As Rabbi Shmuley Boteach puts it, "Jennifer Giroux is guilty of colossal blasphemy and even more colossal arrogance"
and
"How dare one say that 150,000 people that you have never met who are probably more righteous than you, more innocent than you, poor people who just worked hard to feed their kids, how dare you say they
were punished by God? You don't know those people."
I tend to agree with the Rabbi on this one, what are your thoughts?
posted by Tom @ 7:33 PM
3 Comments:
im glad to hear that i dont stand alone. well, me and the rabbi, that is...
good take
Obviously we have a rather stringent defender of the Old Testament here. What a shame. This makes Christians as a whole look extremely bad, and thus the general public gets the idea that the fundamentalist hardliners comprise the bulk of the church and determine its direction and policies of thought. Ignorance sucks.
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