God vs. Dubya... NOT!!!
This is a Bush-/Republican-bashing lie that has been making the rounds lately:
I thought it was an interesting coincidence that a state with questionable presidential election results would be pummeled by hurricanes just before the next election. Then I thought it was an interesting coincidence that the storms spared Miami, who voted for Gore in 2000. Just out of curiosity, I overlaid two maps: one of the tracks of the hurricanes of 2004, and one of the elections results of 2000.This is no longer an interesting coincidence. It is an unmistakable message from God. I hope everyone is listening.
[see image in above link]
Note: After leaving Florida, Charley hit Georgia and Frances hit Georgia and South Carolina. Both voted for Bush in 2000. The path of Ivan is projected as of Sept. 14. Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana all voted for Bush. If you have ANY doubt who this message is coming from, watch and see if Ivan veers west to hit those states as well.
This is NOT TRUE, however. The image is not accurate when it comes to the paths of the hurricanes. Meteorologists track hurricane paths according to their eyes or centers of rotation. All official hurricane track maps show the hurricanes taking much different paths. Frances' eye in particular passed over the Gulf of Mexico on the west coast of Florida before hitting the Florida panhandle and entering the eastern U.S. The map in the above link shows Frances never leaving the peninsula, however. The fake map also makes it seem as if the destruction was limited to the thin track lines. The hurricanes' damage extended far beyond the eyes, however. The Democratic counties were far from immune from heavy damage.
The urban legends debunking website Snopes.com has a page on this. They call it "a clever bit of political humor," but unfortunately it seems that's not what it is now being used for by some. People are taking this map and perpetuating it as truth. Whether this is deliberate or not is unknown. Probably some of it is and some of it isn't. Either way, the truth about it needs to be known.
posted by Jay McHue @ 3:55 PM
1 Comments:
Jerry Falwell is the whoever (whomever?) you're referring to. He was right about "God's hand of protection" being taken away. The Bible is clear that nothing happens unless God allows it to happen. WHY God allows it to happen is not so easy to nail down. Anytime we try to attribute motivations to God, we tread on dangerous ground. There is a purpose for everything whether blessing or calamity. The challenge for us is whether we are willing to trust that all things to work together for good if we place our faith in Him.
Having said that, Falwell's mistake is the same mistake many Christians make. He focused on the symptoms and ignored the problem. The problem is that many Christians in America are worshiping a god of their own creation. They take all the warm and fuzzy attributes of God and leave out the fact that He is Just, Righteous, Holy, Jealous (not in the same way we may be), Angry at our sin and uncompromising. (Jesus, Himself, spoke more about Hell than he did about Heaven. ) God is a God of love, but He is also righteous and just. That is why we need Jesus; the Righteous sacrificed for the unrighteous - once for all. If we reject that sacrifice, we are left to face God's Judgement with only our own deeds, which testify against us. May we all recognize our need for a Savior and seek to follow Him.
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