That America is being pounded with disaster after disaster is, imo, just another evidence that he does, indeed, exist and is to be feared and acknowledge by man, whom he created in his image.
I observe that the level of "disasters" befalling America today is not significantly different from
before gays were accepted in the military, or society in general.
If your God "cursing" the nation looks identical to him
not "cursing" it, I find no particular reason to care about what your deity thinks.
Hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, hail, earthquakes, volcanoes have
all happened
regardless of the political landscape throughout human history. Can you show any
evidence for the claim that America is "being cursed?"
I mean, we all know that your deity disapproves of decent moral character. The Bible makes it abundantly clear that witches and homosexuals and disobedient children are all taboo such that they should all be killed. I agree completely that your deity, should he exist, would disapprove of social progress in the direction of greater acceptance and increasing moral decency toward each other and our mutual rights to be different from each other.
But I don't feel particularly
cursed. And I don't see any difference whatsoever in the nation from before the acceptance of gays and after in terms of natural disasters or wars or other great negatives. It looks to me like your deity is pretty powerless, considering his spite affects me not one bit. Or, you know...like he doesn't actually exist outside of your imagination.
Either way, I'm glad the US military is finally accepting open homosexuals. It was morally abhorrent that we should ask young men and women to risk their lives or even die for our nation, yet rejected who they were and forced them to always live in hiding. I
applaud the open acceptance of homosexuals in the United States. After all, I'm heterosexual, but I very much enjoy the occasional sodomy. Maybe you and your god should give it a try some time?
The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.
- Francis Bacon
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers
A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. — Albert Camus
"...the pious hope that by combining numerous little turds of
variously tainted data, one can obtain a valuable result; but in fact, the
outcome is merely a larger than average pile of shit." Barash, David 1995.
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