The Preacher and the Flood

[KEND]

Talking for God is always a risky business, maybe transsexuals may go to heaven even if they cant get into the army. A canoe cant take too many animals.

Louisiana floods destroy home of Christian leader who says God sends natural disasters to punish gay people
He has also claimed that paedophilia is a 'homosexual problem'
Kate Nelson
Thursday 18 August 2016 09:24 BST
The Independent US
Tony Perkins and his family had to flee in a canoe Getty
A flood has destroyed the home of a Christian lobbyist who preached that God sends natural disasters to punish gays.
President of the controversial Christian group Family Research Council, Tony Perkins, described a deluge of “near biblical proportions” hitting his Louisiana home.
During a broadcast on the group’s radio station, he told how he and his family had fled in a canoe.
“This is a flood, I would have to say, of near biblical proportions,” he said.
The family had to set up home in a RV motor home.
Mr Perkins has a long and well-documented history of disparaging gay people.
Writing on the FRC website, he said: “While activists like to claim that pedophilia [sic] is a completely distinct orientation from homosexuality, evidence shows a disproportionate overlap between the two. … It is a homosexual problem.”He has also claimed homosexuality is incompatible with evolution and has likened it to a drug or alcohol addiction.
He added: "The most important thing that Christians can offer to homosexuals is hope - hope that their sins, just like the sins of anyone else, can be forgiven and their lives transformed.”
Mr Perkins said he has been forced to live off “God’s provisions” following the flood.

In 2012, a group of Muslim clerics joined some Christian preachers in attributing the superstorm Sandy which devastated areas of America, Haiti and Cuba on the wrath of God.
In April this year, the then presidential candidate Ted Cruz appointed Mr Perkins into his advisory council for religious liberty.

[Michael]

I just hope that his rationalization of events is psychologically fulfilling for himself and entertaining for us. Therein lies the balance.

[DiaitaDoc]

This happened last year.

he said that the floods had been sent as an “incredible, encouraging spiritual exercise to take you to the next level in your walk with an almighty and gracious God who does all things well.”

[Steve James]

Nature doesn't give a shit about your state of being. If people want to think that God cares, that's fine. Thinking that God cares about them more or less is just wishful thinking.

Let's wait to see how many preachers admit cite Acts 10:34. They should preach it every Sunday, but it's quite the opposite. There are many churches where the opposite is preached.

“I see very clearly that God shows no favoritism. In every nation he accepts those who fear him and do what is right. This is the message of Good News for the people of Israel—that there is peace with God through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.

And, it is really quite obvious, always has been, and always will be.

[jimmy]

[1] Now the only way to avoid this shipwreck and to provide for our posterity is to follow the counsel of Micah, to do justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with our G?d. [2] For this end we must be knit together in this work as one (hu)man. [3] We must entertain each other in (human) affection, we must be willing to abridge ourselves of our superfluities for the supply of others’ necessities. [4] We must uphold a familiar commerce together in all meekness, gentleness, patience, and liberality. [5] We must delight in each other, make others’ conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body. [6] So shall we keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. [7] ?? will be our G?d and delight in all our ways, so that we shall see much more of Hir wisdom, power, goodness, and truth than formerly we have been acquainted with. [8] We shall find that the G?d of ?? is among us, when ten of us shall be able to resist a thousand of our enemies, when S/He shall make us a praise and glory, that (wo)men shall say of succeeding plantations, “the Lord make it like that of New England.” [9] For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. [10] The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our G?d in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Em to withdraw Hir present help from us, we shall be made a story and by-word throughout the world. [11] We shall open the mouths of enemies to speak evil of the ways of G?d and all professors for G?d’s sake. [12] We shall shame the faces of many of G?d’s worthy servants, and cause their prayers to be turned into curses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whither we are.

[Steve James]

Ah, looking for models of charity is always a fishing expedition.

[jimmy]

[Steve James]

Imo, it should be remembered that Harvey could be a once-in-a-lifetime event, or it could just be the first hurricane of the season. Nothing says that the next one couldn't be worse.

Climate change/global warming, meh, believe it or not. Plan for a Harvey along the entire East seaboard. An Atlantic wall (as they have in the Netherlands) would be a great idea, a prophylactic for future events.

At any rate, the petrochemical companies operating next to water and homes is a disaster waiting to happen. The only "god" responsible for that is Mammon.

Otoh, the real Christianity is being shown by lots of strangers; they just had to be forced into it. It 's a bit like patriotism after 9/11. Everybody wanted to fly the same flag. Oh well, hope we don't blow the feeling after Harvey. Then again, for the religious-minded, maybe God is telling you something.