cartoon: suffering and stupidity graph

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23 Responses to cartoon: suffering and stupidity graph
  1. kls
    January 14, 2010 | 8:47 am

    #PatRobertsonIsNotSpeakingForMe

  2. phil_style
    January 14, 2010 | 9:22 am

    I blame Napoleon the third.. or something..

  3. Ryan Peter
    January 14, 2010 | 10:27 am

    Ha ha, brilliant!

  4. steve martin
    January 14, 2010 | 10:43 am

    I haven’t found that graph to be true in my own life.

    Jesus said, “in this world you will have trouble.”

    “If they did this to me when the wood is hard, what will they do to you when it is green.”

  5. Prodigal Daughter
    January 14, 2010 | 11:15 am

    Apparently Pat skipped class the day his Theology School professor taught on the book of Job.

  6. nakedpastor
    January 14, 2010 | 12:23 pm

    prodigal daughter: indeed!

  7. John Fariss
    January 14, 2010 | 12:28 pm

    You have essentially a straight line progression. Are it sure it isn’t more hyperbolic?

    John

  8. nakedpastor
    January 14, 2010 | 12:31 pm

    John: seems to me that the worse the tragedy is, the more useless any attempts to explain it become.

  9. Lynn
    January 14, 2010 | 1:14 pm

    There’s a fault line that runs under Haiti. It seems that would be the explanation.

    I saw a picture of dead people lined up uncovered, including a little boy probably about 10 or 11 years old. I have a son that age.

    How people can match this situation up with a loving heavenly Father is beyond my understanding.

    The help they receive will come from the decency and care from other people all over the world who are now rushing to help them.

  10. Quester
    January 14, 2010 | 3:44 pm

    This realization, a few years ago, broke me as a pastor and a Christian, more than any other. My confidence, faith and theology pretty much shattered over that jagged, red line.

  11. Joachim Elsander
    January 14, 2010 | 4:02 pm

    Absolutely brilliant!

  12. pt
    January 14, 2010 | 6:45 pm

    the spiritual violence that has been done is horrifying. not by the earthquake but by the person i shall not name.

    sure god can and has done stuff like that. he’s god, he’s not accountable to us. but instead of using this tragedy to shine the light back to a perfect god in an unperfect and scary world, this sociopath in a pulpit has spiritually raped so many believers, and also so many non believers who, when faced with christ, will possibly tell christ no because of this man’s actions.

  13. Lorelei
    January 14, 2010 | 8:35 pm

    I guess he thought they were not obeying their masters with enough fear and trembling. He might wonder why some “pact with the devil” paid off with freedom for them, where presumably praying to god did not.

    I wish I believed in hell.

  14. Susan
    January 14, 2010 | 9:36 pm

    A-yup.

  15. Fred
    January 14, 2010 | 10:26 pm

    Good one!

  16. Quester
    January 15, 2010 | 1:08 am

    I am incredibly impressed that you can post this, and still provide pastoral care to your flock. I found it to be beyond me.

  17. Susan
    January 15, 2010 | 1:05 pm
  18. Daniel
    January 15, 2010 | 2:47 pm

    T-shirts? If not, would you mind me making one with this? I’m always up for a good sidewalk argument.

  19. Hazor
    January 16, 2010 | 2:54 am

    Daniel: I’d buy one. Or three.

  20. Dave
    January 16, 2010 | 11:08 am

    May I have your permission to post this on my church’s website, with proper attribution of course? I’d like to use it as the picture for my sermon podcast. The site is ComeToCorinth.org.

  21. Lesley Fellows
    January 17, 2010 | 11:10 am

    This graph is brilliant. Had to share it… http://revdlesley.blogspot.com/2010/01/haiti-why-does-bad-stuff-happen.html
    So I owe you a beer – how much is that in your part of the world?

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