Ebola? Punishment by the Almighty on Wicked Mankind?

[cronus]

Doesn't matter when it happens but a plague is bound to catch mankind at a wicked moment. Is it punishment? Is it viable to go along with for the lulz? At least until you yourself comedown with the wrath of God?

[JimC]

Random shit happens...

[piscator]

That's what they said when that tornado came through Satartia, Mississippi and took out the church and that bunch of big catawba worm trees. But I still wonder...

[cronus]

That's what they said when that tornado came through Satartia, Mississippi and took out the church and that bunch of big catawba worm trees. But I still wonder...

Might have been nature in one of its more vindictive moments?

[klr]

Meh. Malaria still kills a lot more people every year. I say God is just looking for some attention one the cheap.

[Animavore]

If we put it into persepctive, God has constantly being bombarding mankind with punishments sice our inception.
We get it, God, you don't like your creation. I bet it really annoys you that we keep coming up with new and inventive ways to circumvent your wrath, eh?

[JimC]

The Grapes of Wrath can be turned into quite a drinkable young wine...

[klr]

Time was when he could zap whole cities with fire & brimstone for being "immoral". Makes you wonder why certain modern cities are sill standing then

[JimC]

Time was when he could zap whole cities with fire & brimstone for being "immoral". Makes you wonder why certain modern cities are sill standing then

Sydney in particular - brim full of deviants it is...

[Seth]

Time was when he could zap whole cities with fire & brimstone for being "immoral". Makes you wonder why certain modern cities are sill standing then

Because, you ninny, God sent his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to suffer and die for the sins of Man as a sacrifice that redeems all those who accept Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior.

Geez, have you never actually read the New Testament? It's perfectly clear.

However, come the End of Days, believers will be taken up in the Rapture while the rest of us will suffer seven years of horror before Christ returns and the final trumpet is blown and the Horsemen of the Apocalypse are sent forth.

If you're going to bloviate about Christianity it behooves you to learn the basics so you don't look like a complete putz when you do so.

[Pappa]

If we put it in perspective, you've got way more chance of dying of malaria, AIDS, heart disease, diabetes, a car crash, etc. than ebola.

[Hermit]

Sydney in particular - brim full of deviants it is...

You make it sound as if that's a bad thing.

God must have been in a particularly shitty mood with us between 1347 and 1351. In those five years he wiped out about 100 million humans lives, almost a quarter of the world's population.

As for the rapture: Yawn. We get one announced every other year, or so. It's a pity people keep falling for the same trick over and over again. What a sad lot.

Or could it be that we have evidence that it already happened?

[piscator]

Catawba worms make the best catfish bait known to man. You might could catch them with a big wad of eschatology, but I never tried.

[JimC]

Sydney in particular - brim full of deviants it is...

You make it sound as if that's a bad thing.

Being a mathematician, I'm quite OK with standard deviations, but Sydney is something else...

[Hermit]

Sydney is the standard deviation. You're just jealous and in denial about that because Melbourne is too boring to aspire to being one. I blame it on its inhabitants. They're typified by someone who spends a life time teaching maths at one single catholic school and whose idea of adventure is to go on a train ride.