Jerry Falwell dead.

Surely you mean the fatalities from such - as a result of increasing population and population densities.You don't REALLY mean that there are more tornados now than in the past? How would you prove that? How would you show that there weren't 500 tornados a day 800 years ago when no one was keeping records?

I fail to see any logic in this, Buz.You are suggesting that we are losing troops in Iraq because we don't have God's blessings?But, the people that put us in Iraq were LITERALLY told to go there by Jesus himself! They are fighting in the Middle East chiefly because they are religious fundamentalists who believe that their actions are leading to the "end of days".If the Fundamentalists don't have God's blessing, then who the hell does? Would this be the "moral majority"? The ones railing against homosexuality while simultaneously tea-bagging male prostitutes?

You really would not. Rather than go into a graphic description here, I suggest you google the term and hope for a site that doesn't have pictures

So I'm digging this post out of the graveyard because I was just watching a documentary called "Maxed Out" about personal debt, credit cards and preditory lending practices.It's pretty nasty what's going on out there.Anyway, about two thirds of the way through, we get a clip of Falwell preaching and he says (paraphrasing) - "Sometimes I counciling couples about their financial troubles and I tell them to bring me a budget, and if I don't see tithing as the top of the list I know there's a problem. If you aren't giving up 10-20% of your money to the church, how do you expect God to help you. And those people come back to me later and say, I don't know how it works, but it worked"So basically, people up to their eyeballs in debt come to this "religeous leader" for help and he takes up to 1/5 of their money.Evil evil evil evil evil evil evil evil evil evil evil little bastard.