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Posted By Ciera-Marie 3 months ago in ReligionMinneapolis pastor John Piper seems to have sprouted the idea that God sent a tornado to the Minneapolis Convention Center last Wednesday to express his displeasure that the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America was considering relaxing its teachings on LGBT issues. But his statement has blossomed among theologians and members of the religious right chiming in with their own answers to the question: Did God send the Minneapolis tornado because Lutherans were voting on gay issues?
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wtagg3 months ago
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If the good pastor can demonstratively prove that the holy tornado only targeted those Lutherans that voted for gay rights, then he might have a leg to stand on. If not, it demonstrates he is without a leg to stand on.
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What concerns me more is not that there are people out in the world coming up with such theories, but that there are many that follow and believe.-
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Dionys3 months ago
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There are lots of religous nutjobs out there. Didn't some right-wing Christianist say that 9/11 was due to all the homosexuals in NY? Or that the Tsunami was because of all those dirty Muslims?
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What's amazing to me is that people don't see the obvious hatred spilling over out of these disgusting people who claim to walk Christ's path.
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