--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > His father had promised him a car for his birthday. Dad was nowhere > in sight. His mother gave him 5.00$, yet what he had received was a > grace from God that on his birthday the sun and the birds awakened > him, the sweet smells of the divine filled the air and he knew without > a doubt that there had to be a God and that God just gave him the > greatest birthday gift ever................. > > > So following this weather based theology we can assume that God > absolutely hates China and dropped a huge earthquake on it's ass and > despises Burma and sent them a nasty cyclone? > > It seems a little grandiose and narcissistic to me to attribute a > day's weather to God's intention to give him a bitch'n birthday while > his same power over the weather is causing untold misery and death in > other places. <snip>
I think we as humans like to look for patterns and extrapolate our intelligence onto nature. Whether we do it through a belief in God or in science, the motive is the same, and either belief remains full of holes when viewed superficially.
