Trump is The Reason That God Punished Rightist Trump Lovers With A 500 Year Hurricane?

[Leroy Soetoro]

Hurricane Harvey - God's Punishment on Texas Evangelicals &
"Christians".

Even Tranny Freak Ann Coulter says so.


As Texas “christians” and evangelicals would have it, god is
judgemental and serves retribution for bad behavior. In a state
that still thinks Barack Obama was muslin and hurricane
Katrina was punishment to New Orleans, what goes around comes
around.Texas ( by their own mentality ) is being punished for,
( pick one or add your own reason ) denying climate change,
electoral gerrymandering, eliminating planned
parenthood,building a wall,Gregg Abbott, Rick Perry , Rep.
Gohmert, Ted Cruz, supporting Trump (who contradicts
everything “’christians’’ supposedly disavow) , fracking, open
carry of guns,executions or just because they fucking hate
America.


As Texas “christians” and evangelicals would have it, god is
judgemental and serves retribution for bad behavior. In a state
that still thinks Barack Obama was muslin and hurricane
Katrina was punishment to New Orleans, what goes around comes
around.Texas ( by their own mentality ) is being punished for,
( pick one or add your own reason ) denying climate change,
electoral gerrymandering, eliminating planned
parenthood,building a wall,Gregg Abbott, Rick Perry , Rep.
Gohmert, Ted Cruz, supporting Trump (who contradicts
everything “’christians’’ supposedly disavow) , fracking, open
carry of guns,executions or just because .

This is meant tongue and cheek. I live in Texas ( storm path )
and was on Hilton Head last year for Mathew. I know well the
potential hazards of major storms and work in storm recovery .


Usually, their logic revolves around LGBT themes — Buster
Wilson of the American Family Association insisted God sent
Hurricane Isaac to stop an annual LGBT festival; the Rev.
Franklin Graham blamed Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans’
“orgies”; and Catholic priest Gerhard Wagner called Katrina
“divine retribution” for New Orleans’ tolerance of
homosexuality. Other times, the scapegoat is gay marriage,
abortion rights or foreign policies seen as harmful to Israel.
Yet as Harvey, now a tropical storm, continues to turn its
Super Soakers on Houston, those quick to see God’s angry
handiwork in earlier storms have so far focused their efforts
on praising Houston’s first responders and citizen volunteers.
“The ‘Cajun Navy’ is at it again!,” Graham shared on Facebook,
referring to a band of Louisiana boaters involved in the rescue
effort. “Out there with their boats rescuing people stranded by
#HurricaneHarvey floodwaters. I thank God for people willing to
step up and help others — real Good Samaritans!” And Focus on
the Family founder James Dobson, who once blamed the Sandy Hook
school shooting on America’s acceptance of gay marriage and
abortion, commended “the heroic efforts of emergency personnel
and the National Guard as they work to rescue and comfort those
stranded and displaced by the flooding.” Certainly, the vast
majority of religious groups and leaders respond to all kinds
of natural disasters with concern, prayer and warm outreach —
as many are doing now. News stories from the flood zones note
churches opening as shelters and pastors and others coming to
people’s aid. Christian, Jewish and Muslim groups all have
relief efforts aimed at Texas. But the idea of a vengeful God
is nothing new in America. It came here with the Puritans and
was firmly established here with the Rev. Jonathan Edwards’
1741 sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” which is
still studied by seminarians and history and English students
alike. And by no means is the idea limited to Christians.
Muslim imams in Egypt blamed Sandy on an anti-Islamic film, and
at least one Jewish rabbi blamed Katrina on the U.S. support of
the Israeli pullout of Gaza. But where conservative Christian
leaders have sometimes apportioned blame for natural disasters,
some are now publicly cautioning against it. “[H]ad we been
living in biblical times, we would have recognized a hurricane
like this as a sign of divine judgment, repenting of our sins
and asking for mercy,” Michael Brown, an evangelical Christian
broadcaster and a member of President Donald Trump’s
evangelical advisory board, wrote two days after Harvey hit the
Gulf Coast. “We must be very careful before we make divine
pronouncements about hurricanes and other natural disasters, as
if they were specific acts of divine judgment against specific
sets of sinners.” Stephen T. Davis, a professor of philosophy
at Claremont McKenna College who has written about Christian
theodicy — the problem of why bad things happen to good people
— said the idea of God’s punishment gets “very little traction”
outside conservative religious circles. He said in an email
that “the secular world finds explanations like ‘God wanted to
punish Houston’ ridiculous.” But Peter Montgomery, a senior
fellow at People for the American Way, which monitors the
religious right, said the reaction from the usual
finger-waggers “is different this time around.” “I checked with
my colleagues and we have a couple of theories.” One theory is
that Texas, with a few exceptions like the famously liberal
Austin, is a religious right stronghold. Gov. Greg Abbott is
popular with conservative Christians, so perhaps they are less
willing to suggest God is unhappy with him. Abbott supports
tougher abortion access laws and signed the “Pastor Protection
Act,” which allows pastors to refuse to marry same-sex couples.
Another theory is that Christian conservatives don’t want to
suggest Houston deserves divine retribution. In 2015, city
voters soundly struck down an anti-discrimination bathroom law
with support from many conservative Christian groups and
leaders. They had a simple slogan: “No men in women’s
bathrooms.” “That makes it hard for the religious right to say
there is some kind of collective sin in Houston that God wants
to punish,” Montgomery said. “But if Harvey had hit New
Orleans, you still would have had people dredging up decadence
in that city, or if an earthquake had hit San Francisco, you
would have had people saying it was because of homosexuality.”
Brown noted as much in his cautionary remarks, saying: “Houston
is one of the few cities that has stood bravely against the
rising tide of LGBT activism. Why would God single out Houston
for judgment?” Another theory is that the religious right voted
overwhelmingly for Donald Trump. Texas, a red state, voted for
Trump. And while Houston’s Harris County went blue, all but one
of its surrounding counties — the majority of the flooded areas
outside Harris County — went red. “They think the election of
Trump was one of their greatest accomplishments and has put the
country back into the good graces of God,” Montgomery said. “If
Obama was still president it might be deemed punishment for
electing him.” Dobson may have alluded to this in his Harvey
statement. “Finally, my prayer is that we as a nation would not
politicize this crisis in any way,” he said. “That will not
help those who are suffering. Unity is our greatest strength in
times of trial so let us come together to support and serve the
people of Texas.”

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