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Democrats_win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 12:25 PM
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6. Earthquakes are fodder for Sermons: 1755 Lisbon Earthquake
"felt throughout Europe and North Africa, the quake inspired hundreds of sermons. Ministers held it up as a warning. Some saw it as a sign of the coming of Christ--one of the great earthquakes of the Apocalypse. Thousands a people realized they were unprepared for eternity."

http://chi.gospelcom.net/DAILYF/2001/11/daily-11-01-2001.shtml

Voltaire uses it in he great satire, "Candide." "While Candide lies under rubble after the Lisbon earthquake, Pangloss ignores his requests for oil and wine and instead struggles to prove the causes of the earthquake."

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/candide/themes.html

The "Candide" example shows how religion has failed us. Instead of doing something to help after 9-11, religious leaders like Pat Robertson and Falwell used their sick interpretation of this tragedy and tried to place blame upon the victims rather than on those who actually did it. That is why America has had such a time with this event. "Religion" didn´t even comfort our nation, it stabbed us in the back.



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