you know how the religious right will every now and then say that some natural disasters(hurricanes, earthquakes, etc)happen because god is angry at secular sinners?
simple question: if this is true, then why do 90% of the tornadoes in america occur in red, republican states, and why do the majority of hurricanes that strike the u.s tend to strike red, republican states, as well?
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wtornavg.htm
http://www.e-transit.org/hurricane/map.asp
you’ll notice on map 1 that the majority of the tornadoes happen in places that are predominantly republican and have a high percentage of right-wing evangelicals, and on map 2 that the majority of hurricanes come ashore in right-wing, republican states.
huh, that’s interesting.
i mean, personally i tend to think that things like hurricanes and tornadoes and happen for non-anthropocentric reasons and are, actually, just examples of extreme and arbitrary weather.
but if natural disasters are, as the evangelicals maintain, a sign of god’s wrath, then what does it mean that 90% of the damage done by tornadoes and hurricanes in the united states happens in right-wing, republican states that are heavily populated by evangelicals?
again, i’m of the ‘weather tends to happen because of climatoligical factors’ school of thought.
but the evangelicals(like pat robertson and jerry falwell((rip))have on plently of occasions tried to maintain that natural disasters are the products of god’s wrath(they, for example, said that hurricane katrina hit new orleans because new orleans was hosting a gay-pride weekend…).
and, to be clear, i’m not making light of the damage done by natural disasters in the u.s. i’m just trying to point out another small logical inconsistency on the part of our evangelical pals.
-moby