Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Religious and rational?
It's getting ridiculous. As if the natural distasters haven't been devastating enough, the media has felt it necessary to inflate and exaggerate dreadful events with baseless huge figures and rumored reports of bizarre behavior. In New Orleans, some of the whipped up alarm was truly irresponsible and vile, presumably in pursuit of higher ratings. And now along comes Pat Robertson saying the spate of tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes and mudslides shows that we're on the brink of the Second Coming. Hal Lindsey of World Net Daily also sees it as apocalyptic, complete with hellfire and brimstone. And Franklin Graham, son of the less irrational Billy, keeps intoning that it's all divine punishment for sinful living. But here's my problem: if God zapped Kuala Lampur and Biloxi to punish those who party, gamble and drink, then (a) why those places and not Las Vegas or Monoco or any number of others? and (b) exactly which fleshly sins did Pakistanis and Guatemalans indulge in, for which they have received 'just punishment'? Gee, isn't there a rational religious leader somewhere to speak out, soon and loud? Then again, a friend of mine thinks that's an oxymoron.

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Blogger Jan — at 12:47 PM, October 15, 2005:
here's an example of media hijinks:
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/14/D8D824KO4.html

too funny
 

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Blogger jau — at 9:21 PM, October 15, 2005:
I like the part where they actually have the nerve to say that they weren't trying to palm something off different than it was. Right. The lack of respect for the public is simply astounding.
 

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