Most of the world is grieving, but some say 'God has retaliated' [arabs dancing in street alert!]

Washington Post ^ | February 2, 2003 | Washington Post Staff

[RJCogburn]

He made alarm clocks silent

God sweating the small stuff.....and here I thought I had just forgotten to set mine the other night.

[skinkinthegrass]

"We are happy that it broke up," government employee Abdul Jabbar Quraishi"

GOOD vs EVIL ?

GO ON, ABDUL, The Israeli tanks will crush your dog-humper leader, 'Fat.
And than America will take care of the goat-humper Ben-Hiden and
dog-humper shoe-man Sadam, too. Allah has indeed taken an PASS on
your dog fleas-infested souls, your beliefs have kept 90% of your people
in abject(sp?) poverty >400 yrs. w/ your resources? NO , Your beliefs indicates, Islam is indeed holding you back. :)

[joyful1]

If that's your limited perception of God, I would strongly suggest you engage in some serious Biblical study and perhaps correspond with your theologian.

Of course! You are right. I'm on my way right now to talk to my priest about my errant thinking! (These next months are going to shock many of us)

[E Rocc]

An accident? God is all powerful. There is no such thing as an accident that God is unable to prevent.

Take your logic far enough and one encounters the fact that if Adolf Hitler had dropped dead of a cerebral hemmorage in 1940, millions of undeniably innocent lives would have been saved.

I'm personally an agnostic leaning towards deist, but I've always considered that to be pretty definite proof that if there is a Supreme Being it doesn't routinely involve itself in the day to day affairs of man.

-Eric

[skinkinthegrass]

Sorry, for the RANT, fellow freepers...not enough tea, I guess.

[BullDog108]

(These next months are going to shock many of us)

Yawn. You especially, you whackjob!

[keats5]

Joyfull, I fear God. I understand God sometimes punishes wrongdoers for their sins. And yes, sometimes God also punishes nations for their sins. One only needs to read the books of Exodus, Joshua and Judges for examples.

But God's punishments are typically tailor made to send clear messages. Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed, but only after God made it clear those cities did not contain ONE righteous man. Israel was overcome after following false gods only after God sent numerous prophets with clear warnings. Disrespectful priests were killed while in the act of being disrespectful. No one knows the mind of God, but I would guess God would not punish innocent astronauts for abortion and cloning. Rather, I would guess He would punih abortionists and cloners.

The book of Job makes it clear that God doen't like people to attribute all tragedy to His punishments, as does the incident with the blind man Jesus healed. Part of fearing God includes heeding these messages.

[hoosierham]

Do you ascribe the death of every person who is injured or dies in any accident to God's wrath ?

I THINK you are one SICK puppy who wishes for bad things to happen to other people so you may revel in your interpretation of God's will.

joyful1 is a poor choice of screen-name for a person so filled with hate for his fellow man.

[joyful1]

joyful1 is a poor choice of screen-name for a person so filled with hate for his fellow man

Yes, I see my errant way of thinking. Of course you are right, and I am wrong!

[right way right]

You sound like one of Jobs buddies, who sat around and told him that his horrible afflictions were an act of God caused by his sin.
They were actually an act of Satan and because of Jobs refusal to curse God for the horrible things that were happened to him he was rewarded in the end.

Read the book of Job.

Yes God allowed Satan to do the things he did but, he knew Job would not curse him.

God does what God does. who are we to question him?

Don't try to get people to curse God!

[joyful1]

Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed, but only after God made it clear those cities did not contain ONE righteous man.

Appreciate your civil post, but weren't young children and innocant babies also destroyed in Sodom? God destroyed them as well. What do you say about that?

[katnip]

God did not make death, and takes no pleasure in the destruction of any living thing; He created all things that they might have being. (Wisdom of Solomon 1-13)

For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, says the Lord God; so turn and live. (Ezekiel 18:32)

[Quilla]

Or God is removing His hand of protection from America. Why should God shed His grace on America with behavior so apallingly perverted. (Legal baby killing, homosexual unions sanctioned, rampant drug and alcohol abuse, popular entertainment media, ect ect ect)

Most of the visitors to this website have taken strong stances against baby killing, homosexuals, rampant abuse, and the entertainment media. IMHO, you're preaching to the choir and blaming this horrible tragedy as God's punishment for behavior of Americans is most sacrilegious. Frankly, it sounds like something Clinton would have said after September 11.

[prairie dog]

Or God is removing His hand of protection from America. Why should God shed His grace on America with behavior so apallingly perverted. (Legal baby killing, homosexual unions sanctioned, rampant drug and alcohol abuse, popular entertainment media, ect ect ect )

Hairball?

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks for the very pertinent links and graph...

I was actually referencing the day they meet they're maker in the afterlife. Then they'll be sent to the gates of Hades. Then they'll wish they hadn't done that...

[alaskanfan]

I sure feel relieved. I thought it might been some sort of technical malfunction. Thanks for straightening me out.

[Admin Moderator]

No.

[Happy2BMe]

"Frankly, it sounds like something Clinton would have said after September 11."

Show me JUST ONE inference where B.J. Clinton even so much as "hinted" that homosexuality was wrong or even implied hollywood was poisoning the minds of America's youth, and I'll give you the Golden Freeper Award.

My Fellow Queers - Rejoice! America Are Ours!!

[alaskanfan]

I didn't think that would last for long.