I've said this before, but did anyone believe me?
"The Bible says that God punishes depravity first through plagues against animals and then in people," Basri said in a religious edict quoted by his son.A quote from Rabbi David Basri, who's claiming that the recent outbreaks of the bird flu in Israel is the fault of one the favourite boogeymen, gays. Oh and God of course. There's no pussyfootting around the fact that he's directly responsible.
Basri said he hoped the deaths of hundreds of thousands of turkeys and chickens would help atone for what he called the sins of left-wing Israeli political parties.Well that's fair. If you live in a country in which there are other people who you may or may not know, who condone sinful activities, whether or not you agree with them, you deserve to get a deadly flu.
One of the parties aired an election commercial depicting two brides kissing. Some campaign advertisements also called for homosexual marriages to be legalized in Israel.I suppose just snapping his fingers and making people not gay didn't occur to him. What God will do if gay marriages ever are legalized remains to be seen. Nothing's happened here yet, though we recognize civil unions as of last week, but maybe God expects higher standards for his chosen people, It's not like he's been especially nice to them over the years.
Well, it's not like he's been especially nice to anyone over the years. Let's face it, we've come to expect these kinds of things from Him. He's been up to a lot of shit lately though. And where the hell is Satan these days? He never does anything anymore, I haven't heard of one possessed soul responsible for mass murder for years!
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I'm sure Jesus would approve.
*snorts*
As usual Chymera, I'm way ahead of you.
The vexed question of God appears again. You want my modest, threepenny worth? Well you got it anyway.
Where the theologians go wrong is insisting God is omniscient. If they would only climb down a notch, then their theology would be philosophically, less problematic. If they were to admit that God is subject to some fundamental laws of the Universe, by accepting for instance, "awareness necessitates contrast", then there's room for maneouvre with the notion of absolute perfection being taken out of the argument. Ideas of perfection will then be relative, depending on the existence of lesser, imperfect states. This works well with the theological insistence that God gave free will to all mankind so they can choose between Good and Evil. And it also chimes with current ideas of personal "empowerment" via the moving on from a lesser position, to a more desirable one. We need free will to recognise this and gain the subsequent "pleasure". Everyone's a winner. And this would also counter your, "I suppose just snapping his fingers and making people not gay didn't occur to him", because it makes free-will the absolute cornerstone of knowledge of all that is good, and also bad. Simple.
You know, I'm disappointed with Rabbi David Basri. The Jews are famed for their incomparable business skills, but their theology? Not so good, eh?
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