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Posted on: March 16, 2008 9:09 AM, by Ed Brayton
This is hilarious, a video put out by Jesus' General pushing the idea of televangeliwhacko John Hagee acting as head of the National Weather Service in a McCain administration. I've said for years that if the nuts really think that God sends weather disasters as punishment for sin, then all Christian channels should have a weather report based on that premise.
"Sodomy is up 14% in the midwest. Expect floods and locusts."
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Comments
It was funny, but "hilarious" is pushing it.
Posted by: dslak | March 16, 2008 9:42 AM
Thanks for sharing, but funny? Nada. It'd be funny if only a handful of Americans believed this stuff and they were all housed in mental institutions. Instead we have millions, maybe tens of millions of Americans who actually believe this crap, and they vote as a block.
So I'll keep my sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. Besides, Hagee's up for Sec. of State in a McCain Administration.
Posted by: Michael Heath | March 16, 2008 10:34 AM
The promise of the New Orleans gay parade was that it was going to reach a level of sexuality never seen (in public I presume) before?
What did they have planned??
Posted by: Leni | March 16, 2008 10:52 AM
Leni - They had planned to include all the Baptist and Evangelical Ministers that are homosexual in the parade. Pastor Ted and John Hagee had already picked out their outfits and everything too.
Clearly Almighty God was not pleased at seeing Hagee in all that leather, and the spikes on Haggards collar were just too over the top.
You don't want to piss off God The Menswear Designer.
Posted by: J-Dog | March 16, 2008 11:06 AM
So, I gotta ask, if a tornado hits the Georgia dome during a Mississippi State-Alabama game, is God angry at Southeastern Conference basketball?
Posted by: CPT_Doom | March 16, 2008 11:39 AM
If he's a just God, yes. And the ACC is next.
Posted by: James Hanley | March 16, 2008 12:18 PM
The people who claim that tornadoes and hurricanes are God's punishment never seem to consider the fact that it's the Bible Belt states that get hit by these things most often.
Posted by: Wes | March 16, 2008 1:37 PM
The gays were going to have a parade, so god killed 1800 people to stop it.
Don't mess with Jesus.
Posted by: Scott | March 16, 2008 2:42 PM
I don't understand Hagee's comments in the interview where he said that New Orleans had a "level of sin" that was "displeasing to God." I thought that all "sin," by the very definition of the word, was "displeasing to God," not just when it reaches a certain "level."
Posted by: daniel rotter | March 16, 2008 6:06 PM
An obvious point, but Amsterdam, the City of Sin itself, has yet to be smote with an asteroid.
Posted by: amk | March 16, 2008 6:38 PM
daniel rotter asked:
Well, you thought wrong. Some sinnin pisses God off so much that he'll flood the world or fire bomb a couple cites. Yet note, Hollywood is dry and safe. And there's a reason the first commandment comes before that one 'bout killin people since soon after God gave holy Moses the tabs he had his boy Moses killin the golden calf worshipers.
And of course Ed will soon be stomped down by God for making Hagee look foolish and just generally focusing on the most freakish and stupid god-bothers.
Posted by: Norman Doering | March 16, 2008 6:39 PM
It seems that every time there is a minor earthquake in California I hear the religious 'right' proclaiming how this is 'God's judgement/warning' to the people to stop their 'sinful' lifestyle.
I have to smile, thought, when I point out to them that every year tornadoes kill 70-100 people in the Bible Belt. That is, more of 'God's people' are killed EVERY YEAR in tornadoes than have died in the last century in California earthquakes. (And have you ever noticed how often those tornadoes tend to destroy churches?). Then I ask them, "Just who is God upset with?"
Posted by: Blaidd Drwg | March 17, 2008 2:06 PM