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Posted on: February 6, 2010 6:00 PM, by Greg Laden
Officials say no one was inside the Joshua Temple Firstborn Church on Sheriff Road this afternoon when a tree fell onto the roof of the church and the weight of the tree and snow made the roof collapse. source
God is punishing these people for a reason. We just need to figure out why by reference to scripture and historical analysis. Like this.
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Comments
oh it will be entertaining to see what Pat or Palin says this time...
Posted by: Pam Ronald | February 6, 2010 6:32 PM
goddidit.
Of course, there was someone at that church that said something that was a sin so god sent 30 inches of snow to DC and inconvenienced 75 million other people with a blizzard just to knock that tree down on that church.
God acts in mysterious ways. It is not for us to know.
Posted by: NewEnglandBob | February 6, 2010 6:36 PM
No, you've got it all wrong - God is angry because someone who it NOT a member of that church did something He didn't like, so naturally he punished someone else. Isn't that how other natural disasters are usually explained?
Posted by: Martin | February 6, 2010 8:28 PM
I thought it should be obvious - they're homosexual devil worshippers. Now if they'd only convert to mohammedanism they'd be saved.
Posted by: MadScientist | February 6, 2010 8:39 PM
God wants them to build a bigger and better church with the hard-earned money of the church-goers. And this is all in preparation for the Rapture, which should be coming soon.
Posted by: Charles | February 6, 2010 9:45 PM
I've long noted that Tornado Alley runs right through the middle of the Babble Belt, thus proving Yahweh's intolerance of bigotry and intolerance.
Posted by: LightningRose | February 7, 2010 11:23 AM
Oh come on, you know exactly how this one will be played: god performed a miracle by making sure nobody was in the church when it collapsed. Praise be Jeebus!
Posted by: Phillip IV | February 7, 2010 2:26 PM