In the wake of the tornadoes that recently ravaged the Southern US, I am once again amazed by the ability of Christians to justify and excuse their god for the evil in the world and praise him for the things that turn out positive. What's worse, they sometimes claim that their "omnipotent" god is not even responsible for the bad things!"Thirteen were killed in Arkansas, seven in Kentucky, and five were killed in Alabama where some 500 homes were also destroyed. Tennessee was the hardest hit, with 34 killed and 230 citizens still unaccounted for in the poor, farming areas of Macon County near the Kentucky border."
Today's comic was inspired by a report on NPR, in the aftermath of the tornadoes. A woman being interviewed had survived (not in very good shape, mind you) her mobile home being destroyed around her. When the interviewer asked why she thinks she survived, she said, "God must have a plan for me." The very next question was about her husband who was killed in the storm. She replied, "Jesus took him home."
And that reminded me of a conversation I had with a christian friend right after hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans a few years ago. I asked, "How can your god kill and injure so many innocent people?" Her reply was, "You can't blame God for the weather."
Unbelievable!
Genesis 7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 11:17 And [then] the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and [lest] ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
Deuteronomy 28:24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
1 Samuel 12:18 So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.
Nahum 1:3 The LORD [is] slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit [the wicked]: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds [are] the dust of his feet.
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10 comments:
These are great. Please keep them coming!
so typical behaviour... It's like i did not get any presents from Santa, and this proves that he really exists, but i was baaad, that's why i got no presents.. but he exists...
Indeed, that is unbelievable. When will they realize God is made up?
Cool keep it up ..unless God Punishes You....naaahhhhhhhh
I hope one day you'll have the faith to understand things like that woman does, instead of your dripping skepticism.
God never promised freedom from pain on this earth. He also never promised to prevent fires, earthquakes, tornadoes, or holocausts (he did, however, promise no more worldwide floods).
I guess my point is that you continually bring your demands to God and shake your fist at him, saying "Why don't you do things the way I think you should do them?!??!" In fact, I think this is one of the fundamental problems of jaded atheists who convince themselves it can't be true because people die every day in horrible ways and so how can God be just?
Hopefully you can all rethink it before you breath your last on the borrowed time in these fragile vessels we have.
Again, you're missing the point. I'm not shaking my fist at your god any more than I'm shaking it at Zeus or the Flying Spaghetti Monster. They don't exist.
My point in this comic is that you christians thank your deity when things go well, but don't blame him when they go badly. He's either in charge or he's not.
It's not that He isn't in charge sometimes and sometimes not - it's that he's in charge always. And he's always deserving of our love.
"They don't exist."
Ah, I must've missed the scientific report where they concluded that one beyond the shadow of a doubt. Well, thanks for that, then. Could you link it to me or something? I'd like to show my friends that it's all over so we can cancel the church potluck next week.
So god exists and we have a scientific report on that? wow can you link it over here to heaven? I am sure Zeus who want to have a look at it.
btw - I really hope that you get to go through what Job went through. Not that i want anything bad to happen to you, God forbid! but so you can really get the neccessary credentials to make self-righteous statements like,"Hopefully you can all rethink it before you breath your last on the borrowed time in these fragile vessels we have."
may God Bless you with a Real Tribulation TM so that you can really show off your sfaith to both atheist and believer alike!
I think her comments are very accurate and what I hope I would've said. Everything that happened WAS God's plan. Every person who died, every person who lived...are part of God's plan. Even you DocMike. I hope nonbelievers see the illogical cartoons you make and realize maybe there is something to this Christianity stuff. BTW, you obviously talk to rather silly Christians (or else, made up ones). Almost all Christians agree that God IS responsible for the weather. He has control over everything.
Phinehas, you are hilarious. I've noticed that DocMike only answer your comments when they're not too ridiculous.
Why we're supposed to prove your god inexistence and not you christians your god existence? After all we don't believe in any divinity anyway.
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