My God's bigger than your God . . .

I got this email from a friend:


Awesome God

We know that 80% of the town of Meulaboh in Aceh was destroyed by the Tsunami waves and 80% of the people also died. This is one of the towns that were hit the hardest. But there is a fantastic testimony from Meulaboh. In that town are about 400 Christians.

They wanted to celebrate Christmas on December 25th but were not allowed to do so by the Muslims of Meulaboh. They were told if they wanted to celebrate Christmas they needed to go outside the city of Meulaboh on a high hill and there celebrate Christmas.

Because the Christians desired to celebrate Christmas the 400 believers left the city on December 25th and after they celebrated Christmas they stayed overnight on the hill. As we all know the morning of December 26 there was the earthquake followed by the Tsunami waves destroying most of the city of Meulaboh and thousands were killed. The 400 believers were on the mountain and were all saved from destruction.

Now the Muslims of Meulaboh are saying that the God of the Christians punished us for forbidding the Christians from celebrating Christmas in the city. Others are questioning why so many Muslims died while not even one of the Christians died there.

Had the Christians insisted on their rights to celebrate Christmas in the city, they would have all died. But because they humbled themselves and followed the advice of the Muslims they all were spared destruction and can now testify of God's marvelous protection. This is a testimony of the grace of God and the fact that as believers we have no rights in the world. Our right is to come before God and commit our lives to Him. Our right is kneeling down before the Lord almighty and commit our ways to Him. He is our Father and is very capable to care for His children. Praise the
Name of the Lord.

Bill Hekman
Pastor Calvary Life Fellowship in Indonesia


The way I got it figured any God that would kill 125,000 people all around the Pacific to punish one littel village is a really mean bastard.

http://www.snopes.com/religion/tsunami.asp

Gods, I love Snopes!

Having to make up effing "Miracles." Jesus.

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Ever notice how few miracles have occurred since ordinary people got cameras?

"unproven" and pointed out that the only source was the originator.

400 Xians in a village in Aceh. Who do they think would buy that?

Well.... ignorant, superstitious people do anyway.

Then I respect the Pastor for humbling himself in the face of a miracle as opposed to boasting of the superiority of his God. The fundies in this country could learn a lesson here.

The Council of Nicea did a couple of things--it consolidated the dogma of the two waring Christian factions and it chose which gospels to use in the New Testament. The childhood gospels were excluded. In one, when Jesus was 12, he caused a wall to fall on another child because he was being made fun of. In another he performed magic tricks by killing and then re-animating sparrows.

There's probably going to be plenty of "miracle" stories stemming from the tsunami without throwing this into the mix.

Wasn't there a story similar to Whale Rider of a young Sumatran girl being saved by dolphins or something like that? I failed to save the link, and my memory's not so good right now.

as opposed to a "Muslim god" as even the fundamentalists would tell you there is ONE God, the God of Beni Israel, the same God of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims. The Jewish prophets and Jesus are mentioned and honored in the Qur'an, for heaven's sake!

The letter is obviously a fake.