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God hates the Bible Belt.

Faint

Well-Known Member
Why is it that the most Christian section of the US is also the most battered by tornadoes?

Do you think these are signs that god is angry with his own people? Why is he so angry?

Or is it that the Christian god isn't the real power in this world, and the real god is trying to huff and puff and blow all those Christian trailers down?

Thoughts?
 

Karl R

Active Member
Faint said:
Why is it that the most Christian section of the US is also the most battered by tornadoes?

Do you think these are signs that god is angry with his own people? Why is he so angry?
The climate in the region that creates the tornadoes predates the christians in the area by centuries. Effect can't precede the cause.

It is possible that the presence of tornadoes (where you can lose your house, your family, and/or your life with no notice) might tend to cause people to turn to religion for strength.
 

finalfrogo

Well-Known Member
Faint said:
Why is it that the most Christian section of the US is also the most battered by tornadoes?

I don't think the two are related. You can find these kind of connections everywhere... they're meaningless.
 

finalfrogo

Well-Known Member
Faint said:
Do you think these are signs that god is angry with his own people? Why is he so angry?

I don't think God becomes angry. He is not subject to human emotions, because He transcends humans and their emotions.
 

EnhancedSpirit

High Priestess
Faint said:
Why is it that the most Christian section of the US is also the most battered by tornadoes?

Do you think these are signs that god is angry with his own people? Why is he so angry?

Or is it that the Christian god isn't the real power in this world, and the real god is trying to huff and puff and blow all those Christian trailers down?

Thoughts?
I'm from Oklahoma originally. Tornado Ally. Tornadoes have been ripping across those plains since before the Indians were forced to live there. God is not punishing any one. Tornadoes are part of nature and it is rather ignorant on our part to choose to live where natural disasters most often occur.
 

Lindsey-Loo

Steel Magnolia
I don't know how anyone could even suggest that God hates us, and is sending tornadoes to kill us. I live in Tennessee, and have lived here for my whole life. Our state has lost at least 28 people to these tornadoes, and we Tennesseans as a state are going through a really hard time right now. One came through a few miles away from our house today. Thankfully, no one was hurt as far as I know. I think it may have been a little insensitive for someone to suggest that God hates us here in the southeastern states.

Why is it that the most Christian section of the US is also the most battered by tornadoes?

Tornadoes are normal here for this time of the year. Maybe God is testing our faith, I don't know. But it isn't out of hate. The way I understand it, God does not punish us for our sins here on Earth, but we will recieve our punishment later. But I could be wrong on that.

Or is it that the Christian god isn't the real power in this world, and the real god is trying to huff and puff and blow all those Christian trailers down?

Are you saying that all southern Christians live in trailers? Is there something wrong with people who live in trailers...? :)
 

literal visionary

Active Member
Why is it that the most Christian section of the US is also the most battered by tornadoes?

Do you think these are signs that god is angry with his own people? Why is he so angry?

Or is it that the Christian god isn't the real power in this world, and the real god is trying to huff and puff and blow all those Christian trailers down?

Thoughts?

did god hate the hebrews his chosen people?
who suffered alot

no the bible says suffering is good
we should thank him for our suffering
it defines us

I don't think God becomes angry. He is not subject to human emotions, because He transcends humans and their emotions.

yeah right- god is ver very emotional entity
 

Bishka

Veteran Member
literal visionary said:
did god hate the hebrews his chosen people?
who suffered alot

no the bible says suffering is good
we should thank him for our suffering
it defines us



yeah right- god is ver very emotional entity

Where is that idea coming from?
 

dawny0826

Mother Heathen
EnhancedSpirit said:
I'm from Oklahoma originally. Tornado Ally. Tornadoes have been ripping across those plains since before the Indians were forced to live there. God is not punishing any one. Tornadoes are part of nature and it is rather ignorant on our part to choose to live where natural disasters most often occur.

Excellent post!
 

nutshell

Well-Known Member
Faint said:
Why is it that the most Christian section of the US is also the most battered by tornadoes?

Coincidence

Faint said:
Do you think these are signs that god is angry with his own people? Why is he so angry?

No.

Faint said:
Or is it that the Christian god isn't the real power in this world, and the real god is trying to huff and puff and blow all those Christian trailers down?

No.

Faint said:
Thoughts?

We live in a fallen world, bad things happen. By your logic, God must not be happy with gays because there's a lot of earthquakes in San Francisco. And how about those Muslims? He sent a tsunami to wipe a bunch of them out. He's not really keen on African traditions as AIDS is running rampant. And so on and so on.

God isn't targetting anyone. Again, we live in a fallen world and sometimes the weather doesn't cooperate. If God wanted to wipe a people out, there's a much more effective way.
 

PHOTOTAKER

Well-Known Member
There are things that are out of our contrail. They are challenges. i would rather take a tornado then live in some parts of the world. They remind us that life is fragile. they challenge us to come together to conquer the misfortune. It isn't that god hates, I don't thank he’s capable of it, but the world renews itself though distortion for the new to take root.
 

literal visionary

Active Member
Where is that idea coming from?

the bible

compare people who have suffered to those whove never suffered
paris hilton, news flash, not the greatest person
what does she have the soul of a fish?

Suffering makes you the person you are today,

you should embrace the suffering you endure because it makes you a better xstronger person,

you should thank God for the cross he chose for you to bear,
because it allows you to strengthen your faith,
and yuo should thank him for not making your cross heavier,
 

Bishka

Veteran Member
literal visionary said:
the bible

compare people who have suffered to those whove never suffered
paris hilton, news flash, not the greatest person
what does she have the soul of a fish?

Suffering makes you the person you are today,

you should embrace the suffering you endure because it makes you a better xstronger person,

you should thank God for the cross he chose for you to bear,
because it allows you to strengthen your faith,
and yuo should thank him for not making your cross heavier,

Do I have to say, Judge not lest ye be judged? Just because you don't know someone personally and don't know their inner lives, and can only see the outside doesn't give you the right to judge them. Maybe she does all that cause something is wrong in her life, maybe she was abused as a child, maybe depression, there could be a number of things in her life and you and nobody else should be the one to judge her. God gets to do that.
 

literal visionary

Active Member
Do I have to say, Judge not lest ye be judged? Just because you don't know someone personally and don't know their inner lives, and can only see the outside doesn't give you the right to judge them. Maybe she does all that cause something is wrong in her life, maybe she was abused as a child, maybe depression, there could be a number of things in her life and you and nobody else should be the one to judge her. God gets to do that.

im talking about how she seems - this doesn't mean I judge people
its called having opinions about people from the way they act....

people aren't mysterious
they re all the same

besides no matter what "sercet life" paris hilton has she is an extremely wealthy
person whop spends lots of money on things when there are children dying in the world,

keeping that am,ount of money is immoral
i dont care what you say if you buy 4000 dollar purses you are pretty much telling people your a bad person
 

Bishka

Veteran Member
literal visionary said:
person whop spends lots of money on things when there are children dying in the world,

Do you help the children of the world with your money, time and talents?
 

opuntia

Religion is Law
The God of the Hebrews and Christians is a God who tests souls. Read the following.

"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

"Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him [in Heaven] endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

"For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

"Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

"And ye have forgotten [obviously the disciples, being yet human] the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

"For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

"If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

"But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye ******** [Fatherless], and not sons." (Hebrews 12:1-8; KJV).

The Holy Bible is replete with many examples of God trying the righteous. See Hebrews chapter 11 for the entire list of all those who were tried by God and succeeded.

To wit:

"The LORD trieth the righteous." (Psalm 11:5).

One thing about God is that He will try you as anybody else to see what your made of--of course He knows, but you don't and neither do we.
 

PureX

Veteran Member
A different and perhaps more pertinent question might be why the "bible belt" is traditionally the most narrow minded, racially prejudiced, and religiously and sexually bigoted area of the nation. Is there a connection between "bible-based" Christianity and these defects of character? (Perhaps this should begin a new thread.)
 

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
PureX said:
A different and perhaps more pertinent question might be why the "bible belt" is traditionally the most narrow minded, racially prejudiced, and religiously and sexually bigoted area of the nation. Is there a connection between "bible-based" Christianity and these defects of character? (Perhaps this should begin a new thread.)

That's an interesting question. I think if you dug into it, you would find there are a lot of factors besides religion at play.

As to whether there is a connection between "Bible based" Christianity and the cultural traits of the Bible belt, I think it would be most realistic to look for an interplay between the two: religion influenced culture, and culture influenced religion.

I think you're right, PureX, that this would make a good thread topic. Would you care to start it?
 
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