Why? Because he doesn't agree with you? Whence this notion that if one doesn't agree than one doesn't "get it". Why the airy dismissal of the idea that one understands [a.k.a. "get it"] but one still disagrees?
To an extent I, for one, think Weeedy is on the right track: "The gist of the God is punishing us message is for the IQ challenged among us.'. I can't say I agree with the term "IQ challenged", but I do believe that those who proclaim the Revelation is lurking just below the horizon say more about themselves* than anything else.
As a cure for this I would recommend some serious reading of serious pre-1965 American history books and biographies circa 1789-1860.
*(NOT an insult, just observation of a life time)
As a cure for this I would recommend some serious reading of serious pre-1965 American history books and biographies circa 1789-1860.
Aw, but facts aren't as much fun!