by Pa Rock
Citizen Skeptic
A couple of newsworthy things happened recently which could be described as "acts of God," yet God's many spokesmen here on Earth seem reluctant to claim any credit or glory.
First, the Missouri Legislature passed a hate-riddled abortion law which denies women the right to have an abortion in the state after the eighth week of pregnancy for any reason other than to protect the life of the mother. A woman who becomes pregnant through rape or incest and does not realize she is pregnant until after the eighth week will be forced to carry her unwanted passenger full term - unless she can afford to travel to another state to seek humane medical treatment. It's a toxic law that was proudly drafted and passed by a toxic legislature.
After that law was passed, but before it could be signed into law by Missouri's governor, Mike Parson, an EF-3 tornado hit the state's capital, Jefferson City, tearing a path through the town and surrounding countryside that sometimes reached a mile in width and extended for nearly twenty miles in length. Destruction was massive.
A few days later Parson signed the new law anyway.
If the legislature had just passed a proclamation honoring gay marriage, the evangelical howlers would have been apoplectic in associating it with the tornado, but there were no pious claims tying this raging tornado to the abortion legislation. God was an innocent bystander - the tornado just happened!
And another interesting occurrence rooted in a natural phenomena happened over in Grant County, Kentucky, regarding to a gigantic eyesore of boat that looks like it belongs anchored at Betsy DeVos's summer home. The boat, a "replica" of Noah's Ark, draws nearly a million visitors annually, but the tourism began declining after some access roads were washed away due to heavy rains. Five separate insurance companies declined to offer any assistance to the Ark's owners, and now the contemporary drama of Noah's Ark versus God's rain is being played out in a court of law.
(It's probably a good thing that the original Noah didn't have to deal with lawyers, or today we would all have fins and be breathing through our gills! But I digress - and draw upon my fondness for the writings of H.P. Lovecraft!)
All of this reminds me of another probable act of God that occurred in Kentucky back in 2013. There, at another religiously-themed roadside attraction called "Th Creation Museum," which features depictions of humans working alongside dinosaurs, one of the workers was struck by lightening!
God was on a roll that day - yes She was!
Citizen Skeptic
A couple of newsworthy things happened recently which could be described as "acts of God," yet God's many spokesmen here on Earth seem reluctant to claim any credit or glory.
First, the Missouri Legislature passed a hate-riddled abortion law which denies women the right to have an abortion in the state after the eighth week of pregnancy for any reason other than to protect the life of the mother. A woman who becomes pregnant through rape or incest and does not realize she is pregnant until after the eighth week will be forced to carry her unwanted passenger full term - unless she can afford to travel to another state to seek humane medical treatment. It's a toxic law that was proudly drafted and passed by a toxic legislature.
After that law was passed, but before it could be signed into law by Missouri's governor, Mike Parson, an EF-3 tornado hit the state's capital, Jefferson City, tearing a path through the town and surrounding countryside that sometimes reached a mile in width and extended for nearly twenty miles in length. Destruction was massive.
A few days later Parson signed the new law anyway.
If the legislature had just passed a proclamation honoring gay marriage, the evangelical howlers would have been apoplectic in associating it with the tornado, but there were no pious claims tying this raging tornado to the abortion legislation. God was an innocent bystander - the tornado just happened!
And another interesting occurrence rooted in a natural phenomena happened over in Grant County, Kentucky, regarding to a gigantic eyesore of boat that looks like it belongs anchored at Betsy DeVos's summer home. The boat, a "replica" of Noah's Ark, draws nearly a million visitors annually, but the tourism began declining after some access roads were washed away due to heavy rains. Five separate insurance companies declined to offer any assistance to the Ark's owners, and now the contemporary drama of Noah's Ark versus God's rain is being played out in a court of law.
(It's probably a good thing that the original Noah didn't have to deal with lawyers, or today we would all have fins and be breathing through our gills! But I digress - and draw upon my fondness for the writings of H.P. Lovecraft!)
All of this reminds me of another probable act of God that occurred in Kentucky back in 2013. There, at another religiously-themed roadside attraction called "Th Creation Museum," which features depictions of humans working alongside dinosaurs, one of the workers was struck by lightening!
God was on a roll that day - yes She was!
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