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« Democracy is Bad For The Collective | Main | Cracking Down on Drunk Driving » February 8, 2008Stop Blaming GodTennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen seems to be blaming God for the Super Tuesday tornados that ripped through Tennessee, destroying hundreds of homes and killing at least 34 people. Check out this quote in an Associated Press report: "It looks like the Lord took a Brillo pad and scrubbed the ground."And then there's this quote in a New York Times story the day after the tornados: "The wrath of God is the only way I can describe it," Gov. Phil Bredesen of Tennessee said after a helicopter flight to survey the damage. "I'm used to seeing roofs off houses, houses blown over. These houses were down to their foundations, stripped clean."Whatever church Bredesen attends must teach a very depressing theology. God wasn't in the storms Tuesday night, governor. He is in the outpouring of help for the victims that got underway before the last raindrops fell and the last of the winds died down. He is in the comfort and support the families who lost people are receiving from family, friends and neighbors. He was in the otherwise inexplicable sheltering of dozens of college students so that none died when their dorms collapsed. And He is in the brilliance and creativity of the people who created technologies that gave people advance warning of the storms, so that many hundreds more weren't killed He wasn't in the tornados. Posted in Tennessee Government News
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Bill, does God have 1) total control of the weather or 2) some control of the weather or 3) no control over the weather. Posted by: Christian at February 8, 2008 4:06 PMThe only reason I ask you is because a lot of farmers got a lot of much needed rain Tuesday night. Does the Tennessee Republican Party advise Tennesseans to thank the Devil for it? Posted by: Christian at February 8, 2008 4:47 PMIsn't the most likely cause to this that people happen to live in an area where there is a convergence of warm and cool are and high altitude jet streams moving in different directions? Some people were lucky and didn't get caught in the carnage, and others weren't as lucky? Posted by: Jay at February 8, 2008 7:09 PMThis experience is more likely to confirm that he needs an underground entertainment bunker. Posted by: Danny L. Newton at February 11, 2008 12:34 PMBe careful with quotes - This mistake was evidently picked up by just about every media outlet in the land and spread without a thought of fact checking. Now I wonder what the governor really said and what was the context. On a forum, one poster wrote this, ��the Gov used the wrath of God comment as an allegory to describe the destruction� he didn�t actually say that it was the wrath of God� Geez� what is becoming of this nation�s literacy?� I don�t know where he got his info about �allegory,� but i wish the governor would set the record straight. Posted by: Frank F at February 18, 2008 6:05 PMPost a comment
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