When disasters happen in Christian areas?

Question

When disasters happen in Christian areas is it because God was answering the prayers of Christians to strike down homosexuals?

Did He know there was one in there somewhere, lob in a disaster to take him out and harvest all the heterosexuals nearby as peripheral damages?

Christians, you tell us countless times daily God is going to strike down non-believers and Rapture you up.

Are you trying to hedge your bets by praying for it?

Khalid: Good point. I'll have to figure out a good question on that one.

Answer 1

Excellent question. I have been wondering this too as I remember over the years Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson (Republican pundits) would always blame natural disasters on God's revenge for pro homosexual tolerance. Now that all the natural disasters are happening in Florida and Texas, we don't hear such rhetoric............It isn't funny of course, but isn't it strange? Perhaps these anti-gay areas should change their anti-gay rhetoric. Put through pro gay marriage before the absolute worst happens.

I feel sorry for them with God's revenge.

Answer 2

Disasters happen to everyone and everywhere. As a Christian, either personally or through my religion, I've never told anyone that homosexuals are the cause of disaster or that non-believers are struck down by God or that I will be raptured. As a believer, these issues are in God's hands and I don't presume to know God. Are you reading the words of Jesus or someone who makes his living off Him through fear and control? They are obviously not the same- you should be smarter than that.

Answer 3

Kind sir, please tell me of what you speak. First there is no Christan praying for God to strike down homosexuals, This is a lie that many like to present but It simple is not true. It is far more likely that the homosexuals are trying to have the Christians struck down but the god of this world has not that power. But that is a different matter. Second point, I can not believe that any one has told you nor stated here on Y/A that God will
"strike down non-believers and Rapture you up."
No What will occur is that God will take out the Believer and leave the others to their own god, the god of this world who they have followed in this life.

Now As to your question I see the disaster that catch the press seem to have occurred as follows Lets see Earthquakes in CA. Fires in CA Hurricanes in New Orleans, Terrorist Attack in New York, Huge fires in FL, bridges collapses in Minn. Surely you would not claim any of these places to represent "strongholds" of the Christian Faith. As a matter of fact they do seem to be concentrated in areas where God has be removed. I guess that is just coincidence.

Answer 4

Oh, this is rich...

Salt Lake City is famous for this. You see, one year a tornado came through and hit 3 gay bars and nothing else... this was in the late 90's.
So, as you can imagine, the people went out into the streets and chanted "Holy, Holy". It was the subject of every sermon in SLC for about 3 months.

Guess what happened next year?

That's right, a tornado came through and destroyed 2 Christian churches and one Mormon civic center and nothing else.
The beer (although kept at a lower alcohol content by state law) flowed like a rushing river at the two newly built gay bars in SLC.

Furthermore, when a hurricane destroyed a particularly homophobic church in Florida last year, the newspaper actually released a statement right away warning people against being "insensitive" in their commentary about the destruction of the church. The article claimed "Now is the time for compassion, not criticism."

Here are some links for the people above who claim that churches don't say such painful things:

Westboro Baptist Church on Fox:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Pi77koTk8mc
WorldNet Daily:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46568
Pat Robertson:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q-RGWXMGKq0
Pat Robertson on Katrina:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RrehcebmyRg
Pat Robertson blaming gays for his own ineptitude:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IgKCu2oHeRY

Now, any church that wants to take some responsibility for Global Warming as a potential cause of Hurricanes will have my support.

Answer 5

God reigns over the "just" and the "unjust". Simply because one is a Christian doesn't "exempt" them from harm. As for disasters that occur, I have yet to see where one has struck and missed everyone but the homosexuals. Get over it.

Answer 6

I don't believe in the rapture as it is currently taught. I do, however, look forward to Christ's swift return.

Now, Sodom was not judged because of the homosexuality practiced there.

“Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good” (Ezekiel 16:49-50).

The sins of Sodom are listed here, and we could certainly include homosexuality within the category of an “abomination” committed before God, but what came first? Romans the 1st Chapter teaches us that God gives up men and women to vile affections because of their pride, their vain imaginations and their wicked worship practices. Sodom became a den of homosexuality because of their sins of pride, idleness, abundance, greedy neglect, and haughtiness. Homosexuality IS judgment. God took them away in his own time, after He had turned them over to vile affections and a reprobate mind. The problem here is that you are confusing punishment with judgment.

I only pray God pulls His own out of harms way, just as He did Lot, not that He stays His anger on a wicked and perverse world.

Answer 7

God does not bring disasters to kill people, the weather does that. I do not pray for disasters on people who have not seen the light.

Answer 8

A God [if He is ] wouldn't risk his reputation by acting on such prayers of Christians .If HE does,who shall side with him?Not Christians for sure,who shall credit it to the Devil and get busy with their 'Hell and Fire' threat to non Christians.

Answer 9

one cannot know the true sweetness of success having experienced the pain of failure. it is the comparison of the two that gives each its own strengh. understabd this, n u begin to understand value.

Answer 10

No, it's because it was a NATURAL disaster based on the global ecosystem