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Tornado-ravaged Alabamian: “It’s okay, God’s still great, he spared a cross with a scarf on it.”

So a cross is in the backyard, put there by the woman. A tornado ripped threw the neighborhood, blowing and thrashing and moving tons of matter all over the place.
Probably a great amount of clothing flying through the air..and landed on the lady's cross. So that involves magic things/beings? Absolutely, I'm convinced.
 
""It's still there and my cross is still there because God was with all these people, and us," Cook said."

Meaning, what? This God didn't want to kill you, but just wanted you cowering in terror in your closet for a while? What about other people killed by tornadoes? Did God want to kill them? Were they just...less worthy ...than you? Did God make a tornado so big he couldn't stop it, or have you not really thought this faith thing through terribly much?

I'll never understand the appeal of believing that not only is their some great creator God, but this God actually plays barbie dolls with humanity, picking which calamities befall whom when. That doesn't really seem like the kind of God you'd want to praise. Can any of your decisions be yours if they were subject to veto or approval as some God decides?
 
Lots of these near miss stories involve either multiple vortex tornadoes or incidents in what storm chasers call the bear’s claw.
 
Mr Person said:
""It's still there and my cross is still there because God was with all these people, and us," Cook said."

Meaning, what? This God didn't want to kill you, but just wanted you cowering in terror in your closet for a while? What about other people killed by tornadoes? Did God want to kill them? Were they just...less worthy ...than you? Did God make a tornado so big he couldn't stop it, or have you not really thought this faith thing through terribly much?

I'll never understand the appeal of believing that not only is their some great creator God, but this God actually plays barbie dolls with humanity, picking which calamities befall whom when. That doesn't really seem like the kind of God you'd want to praise. Can any of your decisions be yours if they were subject to veto or approval as some God decides?
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Hope springs eternal.
 
So how would these people explain why famed storm chaser Tim Samaras along with other Twistx team members, a team of chasers from the weather channel getting hit and killed by the largest tornado on record yet Michael Bettes and his team getting hit by the same tornado and surviving?
 
bomberfox said:
Lots of these near miss stories involve either multiple vortex tornadoes or incidents in what storm chasers call the bear’s claw.
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Or as the Bible states..."because time and unexpected events overtake them all"...
 
Mr Person said:
""It's still there and my cross is still there because God was with all these people, and us," Cook said."

Meaning, what? This God didn't want to kill you, but just wanted you cowering in terror in your closet for a while? What about other people killed by tornadoes? Did God want to kill them? Were they just...less worthy ...than you? Did God make a tornado so big he couldn't stop it, or have you not really thought this faith thing through terribly much?

I'll never understand the appeal of believing that not only is their some great creator God, but this God actually plays barbie dolls with humanity, picking which calamities befall whom when. That doesn't really seem like the kind of God you'd want to praise. Can any of your decisions be yours if they were subject to veto or approval as some God decides?
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I always thought the Greeks/Romans had the best explanation for worldly events. Quite simply, there is no singular divine plan. The Gods can be and are just as capricious, prideful, and wrathful as any human being and they are in competition with one another, using mortals as their pawns which results in calamities upon the Earth.
 
bomberfox said:
Thats not very descriptive. Could that be shortened to *** happens?
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Or perhaps the next verse...

"For man does not know his time. Just as fish are caught in an evil net and birds are caught in a trap, so the sons of men are ensnared in a time of disaster, when it suddenly overtakes them."
 
i mean im in the camp that thinks stuff just happens with no higher plan involved.
 
bomberfox said:
i mean im in the camp that thinks stuff just happens with no higher plan involved.
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There is a difference between a plan and a purpose...a plan is where each and every step is planned out...a purpose happens, regardless of what takes place in between the origin of that purpose and the fulfillment of that purpose...God has a purpose for mankind, which was stated in the garden...for mankind to live on a paradise earth...if God speaks it, that purpose will be fulfilled...

"So my word that goes out of my mouth will be.
It will not return to me without results,
But it will certainly accomplish whatever is my delight,
And it will have sure success in what I send it to do." Isaiah 55:11

At God's appointed time and not a moment sooner or later...

"For the vision is yet for its appointed time,
And it is rushing toward its end, and it will not lie.
Even if it should delay, keep in expectation of it!" Habakkuk 2:3
 
Neomalthusian said:
www.cnn.com

Alabama tornado spared a scarf-draped cross as it devastated a Birmingham neighborhood

Dena Cook lost her roof when a tornado ripped through her Birmingham, Alabama, neighborhood on Thursday, but her faith is stronger than ever after seeing that the scarf-draped cross in her backyard was spared by the storm.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com
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I hate idiots who thank god for surviving a storm that he either created or didn't stop from happening. Religious belief is an organized Stockholm syndrome and gaslighting scam that generates billions of dollars a year by scamming brainwashed idiots because the believers refuse to question why their god continually hurts them when they claim that he loves them.
 
If people survive, they often praise their "Guardian Angel".
What about the Guardian Angels of those who died in accidents etc?
Were their Guardian Angels incompetent?
 
Felis Leo said:
I always thought the Greeks/Romans had the best explanation for worldly events. Quite simply, there is no singular divine plan. The Gods can be and are just as capricious, prideful, and wrathful as any human being and they are in competition with one another, using mortals as their pawns which results in calamities upon the Earth.
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Jason and the argonauts, a good movie.
 
Rumpel said:
If people survive, they often praise their "Guardian Angel".
What about the Guardian Angels of those who died in accidents etc?
Were their Guardian Angels incompetent?
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It's like this; Guardian Angels work shifts. If the one who happens to be on duty was parting the night before, ingested some substances and neglected to get enough sleep his performance might be adversely affected.
 
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