Where can I donate to the poor refugees in Iowa?Was that God Teaching them a lesson?

Question

Or is that a different God?If this is the same God that Flooded New Orleans?

Somebody let me know.

Answer 1

not religious myself, but.....

I guess any sensible bible reading folk would do as Matthew said, 'the wise man built his house upon the rock, the foolish man built his house upon the sand or near the water.  

Seems pretty cut and dry to me (no pun intended), god don't particularly like folk living near water, for fear of flooding, or tsunamis.....

Also something about how he gets angry and decides to wash away via floods what he considers  an ungrateful and unruly buch of folks.

Answer 2

I live in Iowa and don't know one single refugee.  We'll be fine without your donation, thanks anyway.

God wasn't teaching us a lesson...Mother Nature was.

Answer 3

Your serious?  That is CRAZY..  you don't deserve an answer.  At least ask an intelligent question.  Call the redcross they can help with donations.

Answer 4

haha, god punished me by making me step on a thumb tack.

Answer 5

What sort of lesson?  General sin--no, Jesus said that wasn't the reason some time back. Anyone who says they know what God was thinking suffers from hubris.

As for Nature punishing them for building in flood plains, well, maybe some folks. Georgia's state "flood person" just told us that half the American houses damaged by floods in the last 10 years were OUTSIDE the 100-year flood plain. Just avoiding dangerous areas wasn't enough.

Answer 6

We laugh at old movies about natives who worship gods and throw virgins into volacnoes.

We even laugh at those in the movies who worshipped a person who fired up a cigarette lighter or took a picture with a camera.

How is this any different?

It would be very funny, except that it is now the 21st century and the very old superstitions are a real hindrance to agvancement.

Who knows what advancements we could have made if superstitions like religious cults hadn't stopped so many research projects in fear of angering their "god"?

It is so hard to modernize with all of these money grabbing heretics running around trying to alarm everyone about the sky falling!

Answer 7

my god doesn't punish anyone but mother earth is a *****