Thursday, October 9, 2008

God is Angry

California recently decided it was wrong to disenfranchise and discriminate against a large segment of it's population and has made gay marriage legal. According to delusional people like this and this, God is pissed-off about this and will soon be taking it out on our horrible, secularly-humanist state. I live in California, so I'd better prepare for some biblical-style revenge.
Well, what has happened since this law was enacted? Have heterosexual couples been forced to abandon marriage? Is it the end of the nuclear family (As predicted by the knuckleheaded right)? Has California fallen into the Pacific? No. What has happened is that storms are ravaging Iowa and the southern Midwest. Now, this part of the U.S. is perhaps the most Christian, the most devout, and most willing to believe in the wrath of god, yet they are apparently the ones being punished. Is this justice? A rational person can conclude one of the following things:
There is no god. The storms and floods are simply the result of meteorological conditions, exacerbated by human intervention (levee construction, wetland elimination, etc.)
God is a poor marksman. If the religious kooks are correct and god is angry, he missed the guilty parties and is taking out his anger on his allies and anointed representatives who claim to have a first-hand relationship with the deity, and know what he wants.
God exists but doesn't give a shit. He can't be bothered with trivial stuff on this little fly-speck called earth.
Being an atheist, I choose bullet one, of course. While it may be that California will someday fall into the ocean, it will be due to seismic activity and have nothing to do with gay marriage or any godly displeasure.

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