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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Really dangerous to link good or bad events to God’s Will.
It is unprovable and looks bad when innocent people are killed or become sick.

Isaac Asimov wrote that Christian pastors in the US in the 1700s-1800s used to loudly preach that storms and fires were God’s punishment for the sins of people in the villages and towns.
Then because most churches had a metal cross on top, lightning was often attracted to them before any other secular buildings and houses, setting the churches on fire to burn down. By that logic, the pastors and religious congregations were punished for secret sins. They stopped preaching that topic.


Interesting storm story from a different religion.

In an oncoming predicted landfall of the large Hurricane Andrew in 1992, the Jewish leader Menachem Mendel Schneeerson (1902-1994) of the NYC headquartered Chabad group, gave an opinion to spread to all the believers in the path of the hurricane to disobey the US Weather Service advice to evacuate their area. He firmly said it was going to miss you there. The people stayed.
Oddly, when the hurricane struck it avoided the Chabad followers entirely and they were safe in their homes. The hurricane veered and hit a place near Miami. Other areas had severe destruction.



5 posted on 07/05/2026 2:27:50 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: frank ballenger

Eh, Matthew 5:45 seems appropriate here “he makes his sun rise on both evil and good people, and he lets rain fall on the righteous and the unrighteous.”


8 posted on 07/05/2026 2:35:04 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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