This guy knows the REAL reason for Florence!

[Archae]

SIN!!!

Rick Joyner: Sin, Not Climate Change, Is Responsible for Hurricane Florence
By Kyle Mantyla | September 13, 2018 10:19 am

Right-wing pastor Rick Joyner posted a video on his Facebook page yesterday in which he mocked The Washington Post for asserting that President Trump “is complicit” in Hurricane Florence, especially since everyone knows that the real cause of the hurricane is the sin of abortion.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rick-joyner-sin-not-climate-change-is-responsible-for-hurricane-florence/

Another guy hit too many times in the head with a big family Bible.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/rick-joyner/

[shraby]

1. Another person who should have been allowed to play with plastic bags when very young.

[apnu]

2. Well if his argument is sin, Trump fits that too.

The guy is a living breathing example of all 7 deadly sins. Greed, Sloth, Gluttony, Lust, Wrath, Envy, and Pride. He's the living embodiment of all of them. That any Evangelical sees Trump as Godly in anyway tells me how fucked up they are.

[Mariana]

4. Rick Joyner: Trump has "a sincere fear of the Lord."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. If that's true, why is he so fucking evil?

If he actually believes in the traditional Christian god he ought to be very, very worried about his immortal soul.

[Mariana]

11. Well, most flavors of Christianity teach

that everyone's a sinner equally, and everyone equally deserves to be punished for eternity. Salvation is based on entirely on faith, and behavior has nothing whatsoever to do with it. Besides, the Bible is chock full of holy men perpetrating incredibly evil acts, either directly on God's orders or at least with his tacit approval.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. They believe this shit, that is the horrifying part of the story!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. I've never understood the "theory" that natural disasters are inflicted by God

because of some sin by some people. If God is all-powerful (which is assumed to be an essential attribute of God), why wouldn't he just smite specific sinners rather than send a hurricane or other disaster that "punishes" many non-sinners? Is this dingbat's notion simply that as long as abortion is legal, God will just randomly punish various parts of the country in order to persuade the government to outlaw it? Maybe, but that theory falls apart: In El Salvador all forms of abortion are illegal - but even so, El Salvador has been punished repeatedly by hurricanes (Ida, Mitch and others). Is there some other kind of sin going on in El Salvador that causes God to send them hurricanes?

[TlalocW]

10. What's fun is when you can play it against them

Like the Daily Show when it showed that the areas in New Orleans spared the most from Katrina were heavily gay-areas, prompting Stephen Colbert to opine that God doesn't hate the gays, just the gay-adjacent.

I've pissed off several religious people who believe this by asking what Tony Perkins, who is on record as stating natural disasters are punishment from God, did to piss God off enough to destroy his home in some Louisiana flooding a few years ago.

TlalocW

[struggle4progress]

7. "Look! I found a way to get my name in the news again!"

[NewJeffCT]

8. Wasn't the hurricane originally headed a bit farther north towards Virginia/North Carolina

and now NC/SC are the main "targets" where it will make landfall? So, red state SC is more sinful than purple state VA?

[ProudLib72]

9. But Pat Roberston said Jesus will put up an invisible force field to shield the coast

So God is angry with sinners and sends a hurricane to wipe them out, and Pat Robertson prays for a shield to stop it. Sounds like these religious types are tremendously conflicted.

[Garrett78]

12. Religious belief needs to be added to the DSM.