# Biblically speaking, G\*d apparently got mad at America's sins and struck us with a plague. What was our sin? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 10, 2021, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblically-speaking-g-d-apparently-got-mad-at-americas-sins-and-struck-us-with-a-plague-what-was-our-sin/954156 "2021-11-10T23:21:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2021, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblically-speaking-g-d-apparently-got-mad-at-americas-sins-and-struck-us-with-a-plague-what-was-our-sin/954156/41 "2021-11-13T00:33:42Z")
Possibly, but stupidity is not in the options given the thread topic. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2021, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblically-speaking-g-d-apparently-got-mad-at-americas-sins-and-struck-us-with-a-plague-what-was-our-sin/954156/42 "2021-11-15T10:53:35Z")
Taking a quick nap @ 3pm, I woke up around 10, 7 hours later. My night and rhythm completely fubared, I smoked some weed and wrote a thing, inspired by this thread. For those of you not used to Twitter, it’s a 27 (or so) “tweet thread” which is read by clicking on the bottom tweet. The link is to the first tweet, they are all numbered, and the last tweet is a near carbon copy of the first tweet. You’ll see. Hope you enjoy! > ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2021, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblically-speaking-g-d-apparently-got-mad-at-americas-sins-and-struck-us-with-a-plague-what-was-our-sin/954156/43 "2021-11-15T19:14:25Z")
Brilliant! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2021, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblically-speaking-g-d-apparently-got-mad-at-americas-sins-and-struck-us-with-a-plague-what-was-our-sin/954156/44 "2021-11-15T19:28:52Z")
I actually got responses saying G\*d doesn’t perform selective retribution within a nation, to which I asked them to review _The Ten Commandments_ on ABC and let me know what they found out. ---
**Author:** ![Ranch\_Dip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranch_dip/32/5238_2.png) [@Ranch\_Dip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranch_Dip)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2021, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblically-speaking-g-d-apparently-got-mad-at-americas-sins-and-struck-us-with-a-plague-what-was-our-sin/954156/45 "2021-11-15T19:42:10Z")
So G\*D is mad at the US and punishes the whole world? That seems weird. And arrogant on our part. But no weirder for assuming that COVID is a judgement. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2021, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblically-speaking-g-d-apparently-got-mad-at-americas-sins-and-struck-us-with-a-plague-what-was-our-sin/954156/46 "2021-11-15T19:43:33Z")
I spoke to this objection here, @Ranch_Dip. > [@Biblically speaking, G\*d apparently got mad at America's sins and struck us with a plague. What was our sin?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblically-speaking-g-d-apparently-got-mad-at-americas-sins-and-struck-us-with-a-plague-what-was-our-sin/954156/36): > > Historically speaking, of course, the Old Testament world had the same problem, right? So when God smote the Akkadians (made up example), the nature of virality meant the virus crossed the Akkadian border… but the sparsity of the 1300BCE global population likely contained the virus in a way a more interconnected (even if still scientifically illiterate) world … say w/ the Black Death in the 14th century (also thought by tens of millions of Christians as a punishment from God, regardless of orig… > [@Biblically speaking, G\*d apparently got mad at America's sins and struck us with a plague. What was our sin?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblically-speaking-g-d-apparently-got-mad-at-americas-sins-and-struck-us-with-a-plague-what-was-our-sin/954156/37): > > Did we really get hit worse than any other nation? > [@Biblically speaking, G\*d apparently got mad at America's sins and struck us with a plague. What was our sin?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblically-speaking-g-d-apparently-got-mad-at-americas-sins-and-struck-us-with-a-plague-what-was-our-sin/954156/38): > > Yup. [[Imgur] ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/51674881178/)[[Imgur] ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/51674875008/) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2021, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblically-speaking-g-d-apparently-got-mad-at-americas-sins-and-struck-us-with-a-plague-what-was-our-sin/954156/47 "2021-11-15T20:01:15Z")
Some people are even suggesting that the calendar be changed to BT and AT. Don’t believe me? Check this out, at your own risk, and not just because it does contain profanity. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/uX-reWFiYjQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Pastor Received VISION About Trump And CHESS?") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX-reWFiYjQ) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblically-speaking-g-d-apparently-got-mad-at-americas-sins-and-struck-us-with-a-plague-what-was-our-sin/954156.md?page=2)