Reflections From a Murky Pond

The Rapture is an eschatological event during which Jesus Christ returns to Earth for His Church and believers and takes them up to Heaven where they will rejoin their dead loved ones and live forever in their resurrected bodies beside their Lord.

So very many Christians, especially the Evangelical sects, believe that we are in the End Days and that the Rapture will soon come about. They await being lifted up into Heaven by their Lord, Jesus with anticipation and joy.

What if they’re waiting in vain? Not because they were wrong in their beliefs and that the Rapture would never happen, but because it had already happened and they weren’t number among the tiny handful of people on Earth who weren’t so steeped in sin as to be disqualified and doomed to eternal damnation.

Really! Look at the full criteria for boarding that final flight. What are we really talking about? 50 people? 40 people? 30 people? 20 people? Perhaps as few as 10 rising up in salvation into the heavens? Who’d notice it or believe the accounts of anyone who did?

Yeah, that’d be a pisser wouldn’t it?

On January 12, 2010 at 4:53 PM EST a magnitude 7.0 earthquake happened 25 km (15 miles) WSW of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. The world is still unsure of the extent of the damage and the loss of life but all estimates agree that it was a horrendous disaster for the chronically and desperately impoverished nation of Haiti.

A few people believe that the quake was the result of divine retribution, the wrath of an angry God or Goddess. The statement by one of them, Pat Robertson, most people have had heard of. The other one, by Danny Glover, unsurprisingly has gotten a lot less publicity in the Main Stream Media (MSM).

Pat Robertson – They Made A Pact With The Devil

Pat Robertson’s response to the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday, January 12, 2010, was the sort of thing that was sure to set off a storm of anger and condemnation. It was made worse by being delivered in the calm, patient, and paternal tones that Robertson is famous for using.

And, you know, Kristi, something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III and whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, “We will serve you if you will get us free from the French.” True story. And so, the devil said, “OK, it’s a deal.”

And they kicked the French out. You know, the Haitians revolted and got themselves free. But ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other. Desperately poor.

– Pat Robertson
January 13, 2009,  The 700 Club

That’s Pat Robertson for you; in his mind every misfortune or catastrophe that has ever afflicted Man is the caused by the Wrath of God. I think he takes the old axiom, the wages of sin are death, utterly and completely literally.

Personally I think he’s insulting his God. From what I’ve read, Yahweh was good at retribution. Were these things His wrath, there’d have been far fewer survivors.

But here’s a very similar statement made by the actor, director, and now producer Danny Glover. He too believes that the earthquake that devastated Haiti was divine retribution. But, as a Warmist, his deity is more politically correct.

Danny Glover – You Know What I’m Sayin’?

You just have to laugh at Danny’s Glover’s jabbering, nonsensical response to Haiti’s calamity, finishing as it does with the ebonic ghettoism – would that be “Negro Dialect?“ – of,  “You know what I’m saying?” – or should that be, “Yo nahemsane?” in the vernacular (mis)spelling?

When we see what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens, you know what I’m sayin’?

– Danny Glover
January 14, 2010 GRITtv Interview

I’m going to go out on a limb and assume that Glover has enough intelligence and education to know that marginal warming or cooling of the planet does not cause earthquakes or any other form of seismic activity. That leaves the supposed “response” that Glover was speaking of an act of divine retribution.

So Mr. Glover believes that, because the Warmists’ neo-Socialist agenda at COP 15 in Copenhagen wasn’t achieved, the Earth or some deity representing her “punished” mankind by level Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince.

Gaea is the logical deity in question but, since it’s Danny Glover speaking and his ethnic background shouldn’t be discounted, it could be: Ane, Asase, Unkulunkulu, or possibly Ogun.

That belief seems ridiculous to me – and I assume to any rational person. Why would a God or Goddess devastate Haiti over the thankfully failed results of COP 15? Striking down America, Europe, or China would make more sense if Anthropogenic Global Warming was true and the Gods outraged by it.

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So we have two individuals, both with access to the media, who have made similar statements about Haiti’s earthquake being a punishment and an act of divine retribution. Both statements were the sort that make the speakers and their causes look bad in the eyes of the general public. Yet, only one garnered any significant attention by the MSM.

There are some differences between Robertson’s and Glover’s statements. Robertson believes that Haiti was punished for its sins; Glover thinks they were punished for ours!

But the MSM is firmly committed to the dogma of Al Gore’s Warmist cult and likewise committed to President Obama and are ever unwholesomely and unethically eager to attack and marginalize anyone and anything that has ever stood in the way of or dissented from Obama’s agenda, Pat Roberson and which Christians in general have done.

Nobody could rationally expect them to fail to capitalize on Robertson’s idiocy or to report on Glover’s similar but less well-spoken stupidity.

Imprecatory Prayer is simply when one prays to their God(s) that their enemies be cursed.

Imprecatory Prayer has been at or near the forefront of the Liberal MSM of late. This is because people are making imprecatory prayers to the Christians’ God about President Obama and this scares and outrages President Obama’s followers.

The particular imprecation that has President Obama’s followers outraged is Psalms 109:8

Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

– Psalms 109:8, the Bible( KJV)

President Obama’s followers, the Liberals in general, and the Godless have been much enraged by this carefully “cherry picked” verse of the Bible. They’ve been quite quick to point out that it is not necessarily just a prayer for President Obama’s removal from office, but also a call for his utter destruction. The verses of Psalm 109 that follow the one commonly depicted bear out their claim.

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labor.

Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.

Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

– Psalms 109:9-15, the Bible( KJV)

Of a certainty this is a harsh curse to pray for and wish upon President Obama and the scions of his blood. Is it anything more than Obama deserves? I would say not, but I’m not sanguine about wishing that much harm upon his children who have done no wrong.

I do, however, find it ironically amusing that Obama followers and the Liberals in general are bothered by such things. They are, by and large, Godless – accept for their quasi-worship of Obama - and supposedly place no credence in the efficacy of prayer. Why should they be concerned about people praying to a God – one that they mostly don’t believe in – to curse Obama and his kin?

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