Am I Really This Bitter?
Watching the Katrina coverage and hearing people alternately invoking God and prayer, and asking for help from us mortals.
Not a chance.
I know this God - the omnipotent one, the one who spared you from the wrath of the hurricane while not others for His unknown but Really Good reasons. You believe that? Go ask Him for new food and shelter and new stuff. Cut out the middle man. Or maybe you won't, since the aid is likely to come from your fellows rather than miraculous McManna, but you can always annoint them angels on earth. Tools of the Divine Will, using "tools" in the most up-to-date sense.
There are various theological justifications why it might be good for me to decide to succor you, storing up treasure in heaven and all that, but that's between me and Him. Either get a religion that's not so philosophically bankrupt, or jess keep prayin'.
I guess the answer to the title would be yes. Will resume the more measured treatment of Social Security anon.
posted by TStockmann @ 5:57 AM
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That's not bitter - it's just logical.
Wow, I knew there were people out there like you, but you really seem to have a rag on about God. I would ask you...Who hurt you this bad. Did you ever hear the joke...What is the only thing a dead nonbeliever and a believer have in common....answer....they both believe in God. I'll pray for you!
Well, thank you, Bonnie. You might note that the loathing is of believers and their beliefs rather than God Himself.
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Thanks, amber. Other than thinking (1) the response to the disaster was mortifyingly third world; and (2) it seems insane to rebuild a city that was as much a victim of geography as anything else in exactly the same places, I hadn't much of an opinion on Katrina. Your account of relief profiteers is interesting.
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