Atheists & Agnostics

PeaceNikki

(27,985 posts) Sat Jun 27, 2015, 01:16 PM Jun 2015

Gohmert freaks out: Marriage equality ruling means God will stop ‘protecting’ the US

And Tim Wise's response:

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152896908480969&id=140254320968

So let's be clear: Louis Gohmert thinks God has been protecting the U.S. all this time, but NOW will stop doing so? So God was cool with us when we were killing indigenous people, enslaving Africans, lynching them, segregating them, etc. -- God never withdrew "his protection" for any of THOSE things -- but NOW because of marriage equality, we're to be abandoned by that same God? Observation 1: Louis Gohmert is an idiot and unfit to make laws. Observation 2: If there is a God who actually thinks marriage equality is a bigger sin than slavery, genocide, lynching and racial oppression, that God is a stone asshole, and I say good riddance.

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Gohmert freaks out: Marriage equality ruling means God will stop ‘protecting’ the US (Original Post) PeaceNikki Jun 2015 OP

is this slug remotely human ? olddots Jun 2015 #1

A liberal application of salt bvf Jun 2015 #2

I'm a liberal. progressoid Jun 2015 #7

God will stop ‘protecting’ the US AlbertCat Jun 2015 #3

God is evil resolves some core theological problems. Warren Stupidity Jun 2015 #4

But will he still protect a few special people in natural disasters? Curmudgeoness Jun 2015 #5

Louie is hinting he might run for President RussBLib Jun 2015 #6

Even if religion doesn't poison everything skepticscott Jun 2015 #8

Well, he wasn't doing a very good job anyway. nt SusanCalvin Jun 2015 #9

olddots

(10,237 posts)

1. is this slug remotely human ?

Reply to PeaceNikki (Original post)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 01:30 PM

Jun 2015

he is beyond help

bvf

(6,604 posts)

2. A liberal application of salt

Reply to olddots (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 01:35 PM

Jun 2015

would probably do the trick.

progressoid

(50,747 posts)

7. I'm a liberal.

Reply to bvf (Reply #2)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 06:05 PM

Jun 2015

Can I apply the salt?

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)

3. God will stop ‘protecting’ the US

Reply to PeaceNikki (Original post)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 01:56 PM

Jun 2015

Thank the Fathers god was there protecting us during the Civil War..... Pearl Harbor.... or 9/11.... or the times when the economy was deliberately ruined by rich crooks.

(if you believe in magic and supernatural solutions to problems, should you be in important government positions?)

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)

4. God is evil resolves some core theological problems.

Reply to PeaceNikki (Original post)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 01:58 PM

Jun 2015

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)

5. But will he still protect a few special people in natural disasters?

Reply to PeaceNikki (Original post)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 02:19 PM

Jun 2015

Or will tornados now kill everyone in the path? Will every person, believer and non-believer, now be doomed?

For the love of god, get a grip!

RussBLib

(9,666 posts)

6. Louie is hinting he might run for President

Reply to PeaceNikki (Original post)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 05:53 PM

Jun 2015

Gawww-leeeee.

Both of your observations are spot on.

Louie is just another who shamelessly uses God to condemn his political opponents, hoodwink his consti-chee-ints, and advance his own career.

I have a feeling that Louie would be included in Donald Trump's definition of "stupid" politicians.

skepticscott

(13,029 posts)

8. Even if religion doesn't poison everything

Reply to PeaceNikki (Original post)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 06:16 PM

Jun 2015

It poisons most things far worse than anything else possibly could. Something its consistent defenders in the Religion group live in blithe denial of.

SusanCalvin

(6,592 posts)

9. Well, he wasn't doing a very good job anyway. nt

Reply to PeaceNikki (Original post)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 07:20 PM

Jun 2015

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