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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts) Thu Oct 6, 2016, 09:32 PM Oct 2016

Christian Extremists Blame Gays For Hurricane Matthew

Christians panic, claim Hurricane Matthew is punishment from God for the sin of sodomy.

Andrew Bieszad, a contributor to Shoebat.com, a popular anti-gay, Christian extremist website, explains that God is sending the hurricane as “a sign of His anger” against America for tolerating homosexuality.

Bieszad notes:
The Bible clearly teaches that in the Old Testament whenever the Hebrews were very disobedient towards God, He would send punishments against them, many times in the forms of natural disasters. Christian history also recognizes the same, where God will use His creation to execute judgment against the wicked. While not all bad weather is necessarily a sign of sin, both sacred scripture and sacred tradition clearly note that it can be so. Now we know that Florida is an area that is infected with sin, especially cities such as Miami and Orlando, which are veritable dens of sodomy.

And while Bieszad and others are blaming the gays for Hurricane Mathew, other Christian extremists blame abortion and Hillary Clinton for the storm.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2016/10/christian-extremists-blame-gays-for-hurricane-matthew/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

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Christian Extremists Blame Gays For Hurricane Matthew (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Oct 2016 OP

Gawd damnit, thats all they do is blame, blame, blame Iliyah Oct 2016 #1

I'm amazed Pat Robertson did not beat him to the punch BlueWarrior Oct 2016 #2

If anyone he may have been going after rush and mar-a-lago duncang Oct 2016 #3

No, the hurricane Emilybemily Oct 2016 #4

I blame them--it's all that hot air coming outta their mouths~! nt MADem Oct 2016 #5

The fundy god is demonstrating appallingly poor aim once again Warpy Oct 2016 #6

See also: "Mysterious Ways", "God is testing me", "We're not meant to understand . . . " hatrack Oct 2016 #29

"Gays blame Christian extremists for Hurricane Matthew" krispos42 Oct 2016 #7

But if Matthew destroys T-rump's Mar a Lago? Laffy Kat Oct 2016 #8

Maybe God is punishing us MurrayDelph Oct 2016 #9

Maybe The Punishment Is Aimed At Those "Christians" ProfessorGAC Oct 2016 #20

There ought to be a personality disorder named for people like that. nt raccoon Oct 2016 #10

Theocratic Sociopathy? VulgarPoet Oct 2016 #11

Compulsive Douchebaggery Disorder Glassunion Oct 2016 #22

You mean David J. Stewart wasn't first on the jump? VulgarPoet Oct 2016 #12

I'm sorry, but can Christian Extremists yuiyoshida Oct 2016 #13

That would be sodomy and therefore a sin that would bring down the Glassunion Oct 2016 #23

well yuiyoshida Oct 2016 #24

I confess.. Blue Dalek Oct 2016 #14

they sure have a warped perception of what 'god' is..... spanone Oct 2016 #15

More likely, it would be a response to people who call themselves MineralMan Oct 2016 #16

I thought Matthew missed West Palm Beach. yellowcanine Oct 2016 #17

I'm sad there is such a thing as gvstn Oct 2016 #18

I'm sad there is such a thing as gvstn Oct 2016 #19

I thought it was Obama fixing the weather again. nt leftyladyfrommo Oct 2016 #21

God these people are dumb. Initech Oct 2016 #25

These creatures are part of the "deplorables". N/t roamer65 Oct 2016 #26

Theodore Shoebat is worse than deplorable. Initech Oct 2016 #35

So the only sinners were in the Carib or Florida? lpbk2713 Oct 2016 #27

I'm puzzled matt819 Oct 2016 #28

Finally! Iggo Oct 2016 #30

Sadly fundamentalists will never realize it is God's anger at them for breaking Rex Oct 2016 #31

Let's get this straight jmowreader Oct 2016 #32

How is that any different from blaming the weather? Or science? Bucky Oct 2016 #33

For the record, we should also note that God is punishing Oklahoma for its gays with earthquakes. Bucky Oct 2016 #34

Maybe their God should get into Anger Management Therapy. milestogo Oct 2016 #36

Wait! But according to this, it was OBAMA who caused the hurricane to destroy smirkymonkey Oct 2016 #37

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)

1. Gawd damnit, thats all they do is blame, blame, blame

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Thu Oct 6, 2016, 09:34 PM

Oct 2016

fuckers. . . .

BlueWarrior

(94 posts)

2. I'm amazed Pat Robertson did not beat him to the punch

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Thu Oct 6, 2016, 09:37 PM

Oct 2016

duncang

(1,907 posts)

3. If anyone he may have been going after rush and mar-a-lago

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Thu Oct 6, 2016, 09:37 PM

Oct 2016

Emilybemily

(204 posts)

4. No, the hurricane

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Thu Oct 6, 2016, 09:42 PM

Oct 2016

is God's message to pRick Scott that he is the devil. 😡

MADem

(135,425 posts)

5. I blame them--it's all that hot air coming outta their mouths~! nt

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Thu Oct 6, 2016, 09:44 PM

Oct 2016

Warpy

(111,332 posts)

6. The fundy god is demonstrating appallingly poor aim once again

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Thu Oct 6, 2016, 09:48 PM

Oct 2016

by smiting impoverished Haiti for the perceived sins of gays in San Francisco and Fire Island. Honestly, didn't their god pay attention to geography when he was creating this rock? Surely if he had a wild hair over gays he'd send the Big One to San Francisco or scoot Matthew away from Florida and straight onto Fire Island, but no, he's aiming at his pious people in Haiti and Florida, instead.

Oh, and he's sent massive thunderstorms to Oklahoma and Kansas, other places full of his most pious followers who beat up gays and try to ban abortions..

Honestly, it's enough to make you realize fundies are full of shit.

hatrack

(59,592 posts)

29. See also: "Mysterious Ways", "God is testing me", "We're not meant to understand . . . "

Reply to Warpy (Reply #6)

Fri Oct 7, 2016, 01:12 PM

Oct 2016

krispos42

(49,445 posts)

7. "Gays blame Christian extremists for Hurricane Matthew"

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Thu Oct 6, 2016, 09:51 PM

Oct 2016

(AP) The American gay community placed blame for Hurricane Matthew, a category 4 storm bearing down on Florida's Atlantic Seaboard, squarely on the Christian extremists living in that state.

"All they think of, all day and night, is gay men having sex," said one Miami resident who is gay. "I mean, I'm a gay man and I think about it a lot but I don't discuss it in my church like those people do. And the hate! It drives them insane that somewhere out there, right now, two consenting adult men are <having sex> and enjoying it.

"Of course God sent <Hurricane> Matthew to punish their festering hatred of their fellow man, their anger, and the actions they take in public and in private to release that angry on the public. Their extreme anti-Jesus actions have called this wrath upon the nation as punishment for allowing this hatred to spread."

Krispos42, staff reporter

Laffy Kat

(16,386 posts)

8. But if Matthew destroys T-rump's Mar a Lago?

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Thu Oct 6, 2016, 10:05 PM

Oct 2016

What would that signify to these idiots?

MurrayDelph

(5,300 posts)

9. Maybe God is punishing us

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Fri Oct 7, 2016, 01:29 AM

Oct 2016

for allowing all of these phony Christians to have a voice.

ProfessorGAC

(65,159 posts)

20. Maybe The Punishment Is Aimed At Those "Christians"

Reply to MurrayDelph (Reply #9)

Fri Oct 7, 2016, 10:43 AM

Oct 2016

Perhaps god is upset that they continue to not get it.

raccoon

(31,118 posts)

10. There ought to be a personality disorder named for people like that. nt

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Fri Oct 7, 2016, 09:04 AM

Oct 2016

VulgarPoet

(2,872 posts)

11. Theocratic Sociopathy?

Reply to raccoon (Reply #10)

Fri Oct 7, 2016, 09:37 AM

Oct 2016

Glassunion

(10,201 posts)

22. Compulsive Douchebaggery Disorder

Reply to raccoon (Reply #10)

Fri Oct 7, 2016, 10:46 AM

Oct 2016

VulgarPoet

(2,872 posts)

12. You mean David J. Stewart wasn't first on the jump?

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Fri Oct 7, 2016, 09:37 AM

Oct 2016

yuiyoshida

(41,839 posts)

13. I'm sorry, but can Christian Extremists

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Fri Oct 7, 2016, 09:39 AM

Oct 2016

just go Fuck themselves?

Glassunion

(10,201 posts)

23. That would be sodomy and therefore a sin that would bring down the

Reply to yuiyoshida (Reply #13)

Fri Oct 7, 2016, 10:47 AM

Oct 2016

wrath of an already angry God.

yuiyoshida

(41,839 posts)

24. well

Reply to Glassunion (Reply #23)

Fri Oct 7, 2016, 10:48 AM

Oct 2016

fuck em anyway!

Blue Dalek

(178 posts)

14. I confess..

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Fri Oct 7, 2016, 09:39 AM

Oct 2016

My partner and I created hurricane Matthew. Musta been the awesome “romantic session” we had the other day. It’s a bit ironic because we were just trying to make the Earth move. Ooopps!

spanone

(135,862 posts)

15. they sure have a warped perception of what 'god' is.....

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Fri Oct 7, 2016, 09:50 AM

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MineralMan

(146,325 posts)

16. More likely, it would be a response to people who call themselves

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Fri Oct 7, 2016, 09:53 AM

Oct 2016

Christians not following the teachings of Christ. Now, I don't believe any of that nonsense, but it seems to me that the offenses done in the name of Jesus Christ are far worse than people loving other people.

Just saying...

"Jesus is returning, and he's really, really pissed off at people who treated other people badly in his name."

yellowcanine

(35,701 posts)

17. I thought Matthew missed West Palm Beach.

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Fri Oct 7, 2016, 10:22 AM

Oct 2016

gvstn

(2,805 posts)

18. I'm sad there is such a thing as

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Fri Oct 7, 2016, 10:38 AM

Oct 2016

"Shoebat.com, a popular anti-gay, Christian extremist website"

gvstn

(2,805 posts)

19. I'm sad there is such a thing as

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Fri Oct 7, 2016, 10:39 AM

Oct 2016

"Shoebat.com, a popular anti-gay, Christian extremist website"

leftyladyfrommo

(18,869 posts)

21. I thought it was Obama fixing the weather again. nt

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Fri Oct 7, 2016, 10:45 AM

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Initech

(100,100 posts)

25. God these people are dumb.

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Fri Oct 7, 2016, 10:56 AM

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roamer65

(36,747 posts)

26. These creatures are part of the "deplorables". N/t

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Fri Oct 7, 2016, 11:16 AM

Oct 2016

Initech

(100,100 posts)

35. Theodore Shoebat is worse than deplorable.

Reply to roamer65 (Reply #26)

Fri Oct 7, 2016, 05:45 PM

Oct 2016

He's definitely worse than Alex Jones.

lpbk2713

(42,766 posts)

27. So the only sinners were in the Carib or Florida?

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Fri Oct 7, 2016, 11:38 AM

Oct 2016

OK ... the rest of the world must be pretty good guys.

Hear that Kim Jong-un? You're off the hook.

matt819

(10,749 posts)

28. I'm puzzled

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Fri Oct 7, 2016, 01:03 PM

Oct 2016

It seems that hurricanes and tornados have the greatest impact in largely evangelical communities. Wouldn't that suggest god has a problem there and not with gays?

Plus it's truly batshit crazy to attribute shitty weather to gays or god.

Iggo

(47,564 posts)

30. Finally!

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Fri Oct 7, 2016, 01:24 PM

Oct 2016

I was getting worried when I hadn't heard from those crazy fucks yet.

Glad they're okay!

Rex

(65,616 posts)

31. Sadly fundamentalists will never realize it is God's anger at them for breaking

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Fri Oct 7, 2016, 01:30 PM

Oct 2016

His most sacred laws by being evil assholes to his other children. They live in a hurricane of ignorance that never dissipates.

jmowreader

(50,562 posts)

32. Let's get this straight

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Fri Oct 7, 2016, 05:03 PM

Oct 2016

This god of theirs punished New Orleans for gaiety by wiping the town Baptist seminary off the map while leaving the French Quarter (the gay section of NOLA) untouched. And He did the same thing in this hurricane. Maybe homosexuality isn't what he's pissed about.