Lots of people believe it. God destroyed New Orleans via Katrina because the US is tolerant of gays, according to Pat Robertson. (Why he couldn't have spared the city and just destroyed gay businesses, and maybe throw in a few heterosexual pornography shops, to make his intent unmistakeably clear, I do not know).
Now we've got Michele Bachman saying Hurricane Irene and last weeks's earthquare were a message from God that Washington has to change its policies.
Sorry, but that's just stupid, and if this woman was ever a front runner for becoming the President, she's surely lost it now.
If God wants to send messages, why not make them unmistakeable and easy to interpret? If he can send a whole earthquake, surely he could send a localized earthquake. Take out the mosque at Ground Zero (by making the ground sink at the location where they want to put it) and leave every other building standing, for example. That would be an unmistakable message.
But a hurricane...something that has happened every year for decades? An earthquake, something that has happened every year for decades. Sure, the last powerful earthquake of that magnitude was in 1944...I wonder what message god was sending then?
From Yahoo News: Bachmann: Irene is God's message for Washington
MIAMI (Reuters) - For Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, Hurricane Irene and last week's earthquake in the eastern United States were a message from God that Washington needs to change its policies.
Even as Irene was beginning its raking course up the East Coast over the weekend, which killed 21 people and caused widespread flooding and power outages, Bachmann told senior citizens in Poinciana, Florida, on Saturday that the hurricane was an "act of God" that Washington should heed.
The Minnesota congresswoman, who has gained media prominence for her fiery attacks on Democratic President Barack Obama and against big government, recalled Washington and the east had already felt a 5.8 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday.
"Washington, D.C., you'd think by now they'd get the message. An earthquake, a hurricane. Are you listening? The American people have done everything they can, and now it's time for an act of God and we're getting it," she said, drawing some laughs from her audience.
Bachmann is a favorite of the fiscally conservative Tea Party movement and of religious social conservatives, but recent Republican presidential contender polls have shown her lagging behind Texas Governor Rick Perry and moderate Mitt Romney, who appeals to the party's business wing.
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