They might want to rethink this based on the track record: Pat Robertson called for God to smite Disney World for being gay-friendly, and the next major storm ran smack into Virginia Beach (home of Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network). So if history is any guide, we should look for FotF’s headquarters to be knocked off its foundations by a mudslide. Which would be doubly appropriate, somehow.
I am not a meterologist, nor do I play one on television, but I have lived in Colorado long enough to know that if Denver gets hit that hard weatherwise so will the area north of Coloradol Springs (if not harder) where Focus on the Family has their offices.
These people have a…um…unique concept of what Christianity is all about, don’t they? “Smite mine enemies, O Prince of Peace, Lord of Love!” Besides, didn’t God promise never to make a flood of biblical proportions again? Something about a rainbow? Oh, wait! That symbol’s been stolen by the homersexuals. Gay people must somehow trump God’s promises. I had no idea we were so powerful.
Actually, it’s probably more like:
I’ve been in Denver in late August and I can’t see a thunderstorm generating that much rain unless a tornado gets involved as well. And I agree, that big a storm would do a number on Colorado Springs as well.
Besides, Invesco has a self-draining field.
That’s pretty silly, God is going to do everything he can to get Obama, the AntiChrist, elected. He’s not going to disprove his own prophesy, is he?
I like the part where they put God on a schedule.
Indeed, they seem to focus on hatred and bigotry, not family.
And what if on that day Denver sees the nicest, prettiest, bluebird sky day that anyone can remember? What does that imply for Fucktards with Families? That God doesn’t listen to them?
Good.
How much rain does Denver usually get in August?
It’s not so much a desire to get into Heaven as it is a hope that other people are going to Hell.
Not that much, but when it strikes, it can come in huge amounts that flood out an infrastructure poorly prepared to handle it.
Anyway, look at the original YouTube. It’s smarmy and annoying, but qualified. It isn’t exactly asking for any smiting, just wishing for an annoying amount of rain. It was the production value of a 5th grade end-of-year project; just some dumbass with an umbrella in front of a camera.
In fairness, FOF pulled the video a couple of days ago after numerous complains from members who (to their credit) thought it was a misuse of prayer and made Christians look bad. The douche who made the video is now saying it was all just a “joke.”
I actually don’t have any problem with it. If they want to pray for rain, let them pray. I say why stop at rain? Why not pray for something really spectacular. I say pray for frogs. A rain of frogs would look much more Biblical than ordinary rain. Blood would work too.
Denver gets the same monsoonal pattern that the rest of the Southwest gets. So any storms, if intense, are likely to be rather short and cause flash flooding at the most. Call it about 2 inches if there’s not another hurricane heading this way in August. (Did the remnants of Dolly make it into Colorado, or did they stop in northern New Mexico?)
Serious question…Would asking God to rain on your enemies be taking God’s name in vain and therefore violate one of his commandments?
Well, if your families are all about hatred and bigotry…
I liked that, too.
I sense some large disappointment coming soon to Focus on the Family.
I’m picturing Rev. Dobson following God around with a big appointment book, like the secretary in a 1940s office movie. “And you have the Vegas appointment at 11…I reserved a private room at Circus, Circus for that. The thunderstorm of biblical proportions is scheduled for approximately 9PM, MDT, in Denver…”
Not sure about that, but it seems incredibly presumptious.
Bolding Mine
He is going straight to Hell just for that alone.