Stop doing the talking for God

By Molly Ivins
Thursday, Dec. 1, 2005


Quite a few people have been mishearing the Lord lately. The Rev. Pat Robertson thinks the Lord told the people of Dover, Pa., they shouldn’t ask for His help anymore because they elected a school board Robertson doesn’t like. And Rep. Richard Baker of Louisiana said right after Hurricane Katrina that “we finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did it.”

I kind of doubt Katrina was designed by the Lord as a form of urban renewal. I think it’s a big mistake for us to go around putting our own puny interpretations on stuff that happens and then claiming the Lord meant thus-and-such by it. It is my humble opinion that some folks should do a lot more listening to God and a lot less talking for Him.

In that category, I put a whole passel of politicians — including that God-fearing professional patriot Rep. “Duke” Cunningham of San Diego. Cunningham resigned his office after pleading guilty to having accepted $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors. “Duke’s” big cause in Congress was to get a constitutional amendment to ban flag-burning. Which do you think is more unpatriotic: burning a flag to indicate desperate dissent against American policy or getting elected to Congress and selling out for a Rolls-Royce and some antique commodes?

Rep. Tom DeLay, who is under indictment in Texas, is another fine parser of the Lord’s intent. According to Mother Jones magazine, DeLay appeared at a prayer breakfast just after the tsunami that killed 240,000 people. “DeLay read a passage from Matthew about a nonbeliever: ‘... a fool who built his house on sand: the rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house, and it collapsed and was completely ruined.’ Then, without comment, he righteously sat down.”


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God told me to masturbate more.

He wasn't elected president because God didn't want him there. I would think that was enough of a jab to keep his stinkin' nose out of politics altogether.

rights of the less fortunate.

I'm such a fool. All of the houses in Florida are built on sand. My whole yard is sand.

God is punishing me with hurricanes because a builder put this neighborhood on sand 30 years ago.

gonna hurt his reputation."

love that woman

Who, as President Dubya loves to remind us, had a wonderful front porch until Katrina reduced it to "rubbles". I suppose that Trent must have annoyed the Lord big-time!