Flood victims - It's your own fault

[Gromit]

Forget Global Warming or poor planning, the Rt Rev Graham Dow says the floods are our own fault for being ungodly. Reassuring words indeed from this top ranking pious Christian.

Does anyone agree that our ungodlyness and the bad weather are in any way connected?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles /news/news.html?in_article_id=465572&in_page_i d=1770

[Reverandfunk]

What a load of old tosh. How about all the ungodly priests who mess with kids and then the church covers it up.

All based on a 2000 year old fairy tale.

[tattoo1094]

Goodmorning reverandfunk and gromit,
reverand , my sentiments exactly not a truer word spoken!

[jake-the-peg]

I think you need to repost this in Science.

This is clear evidence that we are actually being visited by a time traveller fron the fourteenth century.

We need an immediate public enqury to find out how he became a bishop and how we can return him to his own time

[Reverandfunk]

And me being a man of the cloth as well...yeah right lol

[leelapops]

I'll second that! Well, fourth it! Oh the hypocrisy of religion: that we, the people, should be punished for our sins, while God's messengers remain untouchable, despite committing truly awful crimes.

He has a point though...I mean, why not deflect all the anger you feel about yourself onto those who you perceive to be somehow abnormal, thur righting your own rongs so the lord will still save you that special spot in heaven. Or not.

[WaldoMcFroog]

It would have been really nice if, when he put a rainbow in the sky as a promise to never again flood the whole earth, God had revealed the small print that says that all loving deities are at liberty to cause loss of life and damage to property on a localised scale in the event of wickedness and sin being discovered.

He moves in mysterious ways, you know...

[jno]

if we spent more time sitting piously in church instead of driving round to Tescos buying stuff wrapped in 16 kinds of plastic we don't need, our carbon footprint would diminish and the planet would be measurably safer. So yes, he's right.

[WaldoMcFroog]

Ha! Not sure that's quite what he meant though! ;-)

[Supernick]

Why does he move in mysterious ways? If it's your bl**dy job to look after the world, God, I'm thinking that some sort of direct statement will probably help more. If I'm unhappy with the receptionist at work not answering calls correctly, cryptically covering her desk with locusts is not going to help resolve the matter as much as a carefully worded e-mail.

[Reverandfunk]

Sitting in church doing what? Listening to a load of old rubbish some nutters wrote 2 millenium ago?

I might write my own version, make up a load of old piffle and in 2000 years people will realise that I am their real god....

[Goodsoulette]

*Imagines desk covered in locusts and chuckles*

[Goodsoulette]

On another note, I am not particularly religious but I do think it is our job to care for the planet and wholeheartedly believe that our disregard to caring for it has caused this flooding. So maybe the old fella is right in a way but I believe it to be more about crimes against mother nature than God.

[Gromit]

Our present weather is not the wrath of God or Global Warming but the El Nino effect. This accounted for our unusually warm winter and now our wet summer.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weather/Story/0,,198 2451,00.html

[Reverandfunk]

And so one Friday evening a man appeared thro some strawberry scented smoke, he wore a long black flowing vicars outfit and a ridiculously big afro wig, he spun some discs, the people danced, all knee down and pray to the Reverand Funk - the real lord. (of the dance).

[Goodsoulette]

but there are many scientist studying the links between el nino and global warming. They believe this to be the case because we have seen more el nino than we should have in recent years.

[Octavius]

He refers to our moral degradation and lack of respect for our fellow humans. If this means our materialistic lifestyles of the latest gadgets, fast fuel guzzling cars, jet set holiday lifestyles and contempt for poorer nations feeding our consumerism then he may well have a point. All this sort of naughtiness causes more carbon emissions and poverty in the third world, which in turn creates a poorer environment for many to survive and thrive, an ecological transition to an inhabitable earth and a massive fall in social and humanitarian welfare.

[China Doll]

Nope. I think it's down to bad hair.

[China Doll]

Ahem... sorry.

[Llamatron]

I will never understand how any rational individual can buy into something that fails to stand up to even the most casual scrutiny and is so clearly utter bo11ocks.

There's nowt so queer as folk.