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From Deuteronomy 26

Punishment for Disobedience
14 " 'But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands, 15 and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant, 16 then I will do this to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and drain away your life. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. 17 I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.
18 " 'If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over. 19 I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze. 20 Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
21 " 'If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve. 22 I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted.
23 " 'If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction but continue to be hostile toward me, 24 I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over. 25 And I will bring the sword upon you to avenge the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be given into enemy hands. 26 When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.
27 " 'If in spite of this you still do not listen to me but continue to be hostile toward me, 28 then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over. 29 You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters. 30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you. 31 I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings. 32 I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who live there will be appalled. 33 I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins. 34 Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. 35 All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it.
36 " 'As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them. 37 They will stumble over one another as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies. 38 You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you. 39 Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their fathers' sins they will waste away.

To paraphrase, I asked: "How are news stories about homosexual priests and dead soldiers in Iraq related?"

and you responded: "that's my God punishing you all for those homosexuality sins"

Well, just between you and I, I have it on rather good authority that it wasn't actually that Deuteronomy God at all. You see, Goddess Eris, she's mighty peeved that ya'll won't be nice to your Queer folk back home. So she's slaughtering your sons abroad in vengeance for your sins. What, you don't believe me? You think I'm being distastefully manipulative? You think my argument might be one giant non sequitor just waiting to offend the nearest logician (not to mention grieving loved-one)? Well I warn you, if you keep on ignoring her edicts, she'll keep right on making orphans, widows, and heart-broken mothers, whether you believe in Her or not. So repent, you sinning hetero-folk! {sarcasm off}

So what, every non-Christian is in some convoluted way responsible for the death of all those soldiers? So when I started swearing at my monitor at your response, your micro-managing god heard me, and shot a helicopter from the sky in revenge? Wow, hey, I just thought of something ... you could save a lot'a lives if you just killed me first! {sarcasm off, dammit}

I'm sorry, but black humour is the only thing that keeps me from puking on my keyboard and driving my fist through my monitor at your response. [shakes her head] No wonder I'm an atheist.