Posted on 07/18/2007 9:09:38 AM PDT by jda
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Your list of disasters conveniently excludes any and all that occurred before 1963. I guess there must not have been any.
As much as I agree with the writer.
TOO MUCH irrelevancy with the last five years. Of course storms as the years go on will be the more costly than the previous ones. The value of the dollar continues to increase.
This pointless stuff at the end will undo the overall message.
Such as the 1900 Galveston, TX, hurricane that killed 8,000 people.
It’s a common misperception that global warming is due to greenhouse gases. It’s actually because the planet is going to hell in a handbasket.
You should listen to John MacArthur’s sermon, “A Nation Abandoned by God.” It is truly powerful and accurate. You should be able to listen to it on the web somewhere. I downloaded it at www.oneplace.com about three weeks ago.
this talks scares the liberals I know and makes me embarrassed to be a conservative.
In a nation of a few million, as the Founding Fathers had, government and leadership are very doable ideas.
In a nation of 300 million, government and leadership are essentially useless, at least in a free society.
Storms were raging way back when the continent was populated by only noble savages. There are sunken Spanish’s galleons on the bottom of the gulf that testify to that. The gist of the ‘God is punishing us” message is for the IQ challenged among us.
I chose to only include disasters since 2000 to limit the list. The point is that an incontrovertable number historically significant events have occurred since then - beyond the realm of coincidence. In fact, 7 of the top 10 disasters in the U.S. have occurred since 2000 - the other 3 occurred in 1989, 1992 and 1994.
I for one, am.
I rest my case - you are obviously among those who “don’t get it” and likely never will. Yes, there have been storms since The Flood, but the number and intensity of those in America over the past several years in beyond coincidence.
I totally agree that bad things happen to good people - we live in a fallen world. If you look at the founding of America, the hand of God is unmistakably present (as stated by Washington). If you look at our recent history, the hand of God is unmistakably absent.
Horse cookies. A whole lot of historically significant events have occurred throughout history. In fact, history contains a lot of historically significant events. Can you even have history without them?
And in terms of the Christian world, the most significant historical events took place centuries earlier ... things like the plague, the various European wars, the Renaissance, and so on. Those were huge events -- much bigger than the sorts of things you wrote down (and which happened regularly beforehand, too).
In fact, 7 of the top 10 disasters in the U.S. have occurred since 2000 - the other 3 occurred in 1989, 1992 and 1994.
Top 10 in terms of what? Cost? You don't suppose that might have something to do with the fact that a lot of folks built houses in dangerous areas. It's not like huge storms and such haven't hit those places before ... it's just that there are people there now.
The non-inflation adjusted cost is meaningless. Same with "MOST DEADLY...". Well gee, with the population always going up, the same thing applies.
Unless they compare these costs/lives as an average of current GDP/population, etc., the statistics will be deceitful.
Hey, the largest earthquake in US history happened in the early 1800's. Maybe God is less mad now - he's hardly touched us since 1906!
Well, no. The Hayman fire was big, but it has nothing on the huge fire during the 19th century that burnt the Hayman area and much more. It ran unchecked from June to September, and stopped only when the snows came.
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