Before:
"I believe in the man up there, God. I believe he will take care of me."
-- William Steally, Galveston, TX
(AP: Citing Faith and Fate, Some Choose to Ride Out Ike/9.12.08)
After:
(MSNBC: Survivors Beg for Help: Major Search and Rescue Looms After 250,000 Refuse to Flee/9.13.08)
Saturday, September 13, 2008
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Ah, yes. Faith and arrogance. "I believe he will take care of me."
Maybe He already took care of Mr. Steally by giving him ears to hear the evacuation order. By ignoring the order, Mr. Steally is defying God's will.
How about that, Bill?
A man sits in his house on a river. There's a flood, and he's been told to evacuate. He says, "I believe in God, and that he will save me." The flood waters rise to his doorstep. A man comes along in a boat and says, "The waters are going to keep rising and sink your house and you'll die. Let me take you to safety." The man in the house says, "I believe in God and that he'll save me." The waters rise more and the man is sitting on the roof of his house. A rescue helicopter comes and the worker says, "The waters are going to keep rising, sink your house, and you'll die. Let us take you to safety." The man says, "I believe in God and that he'll save me."
The man dies, and he's at the gates of Heaven. He says, "God, I loved you for all my life and had faith. Why didn't you save me?" And God says, "I sent you a car, a boat, and a helicopter, what more did you want?"
There were obstacles in the way of people getting out of New Orleans when Katrina hit. These people in Galveston and Houston are just retarded, and I'm waiting for the day somebody with any sort of clout repeats that little story and says so. Bonus points if it's a pissed off fire or police chief.
James talked about this kind of thing in the Bible when he wrote:
"Faith without works is dead, being alone."
If you don't get the heck out od Dodge when you have warning, you might even be alone and dead for real. Arrogance and stupidity. God doesn't always defend the stupid.
Good one. We had a somewhat similar situation in Croatia recently. A bus full of tourists was headed for Medjugorje, (a famous religious site in Bosnia and Herzegovina dedicated to Mary who "appeared" there in the 80s to a bunch of kids)but crashed somewhere along the way. several people were killed and many injured. and what was the first reaction of the survivors, you ask? but of course, they started praying for the injured ones. But why didn't the holy mother of god to whom these religious nuts dedicate their children before they are born and spend countless hours praying to her on their little rosemaries help change the destiny of the people from that bus??? Oh, yeah, well, she does not exist! of course, my mom accused me of being an insensitive bitch when I pointed that one out with a rather substantial amount of schadenfreude, but I'll take bitch over moron any day.
Greetings from Croatia, the most catholic country in the world!
retards. fucking retards.
These are probably the same people who would argue against evolution. Well, this is evolution in action people, watch as they remove themselves from the gene pool.
marija - from Croatia and excellent use of schadenfreude. I love it!
Mike said "There were obstacles in the way of people getting out of New Orleans when Katrina hit."
I'm wondering what he thinks those obstacles were - why he thinks the reasons people did not evacuate NOLA for Hurricane Katrina are different from the reasons people did not evacuate Galveston for Hurricane Ike?
Dumb bastards. Did it ever occur to any of them that God might be too busy saving people who can't just get out the way of an oncoming disaster to work miracles for their stupid asses? Hurricanes are an Act of God, so show some damn respect for His power and leave.
I hope none of them are registered.
God's will or natural selection?
Either way, the result's the same.
Mike...awesome! I was just going to post that joke.
I am a bit confused with marija's post, but I may be misreading it. How is that incident (what sounds to me like a vehicle crash that I surmise no one expected to happen) be compared to this (a blatant and obvious threat to life and limb that smarter folks would avoid). And I don't see how the survivors praying over the injured was so bad either.
Maybe I am missing something. Is this area well known for bus crashes, or hazardous in some other way?
I just can't see the connection to it, and I hope that wasn't all to the story. Otherwise, I would kinda have to agree with your mother on that one.
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