# God is funny **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 2, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-funny/604781 "2011-12-02T02:08:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-funny/604781/1 "2011-12-02T02:08:13Z")
Well, according to Newt Gingrich, he is “destined by God to be President of the United States”. That’s certainly impressive and incredible, if it was true. However, how can God really want _Gingrich_ to be President, if he has personally called on each and every other Republican nominee to fill those vast shoes (with the possible exception of that science-believin’ pagan Huntsman)? I personally think God has a rather twisted sense of humor and is just having fun. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-funny/604781/2 "2011-12-02T02:17:02Z")
Maybe God’s strategy is to toss as many Chosen Ones at the presidency with the hope that one will stick. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-funny/604781/3 "2011-12-02T05:32:11Z")
Proof of God’s sense of humor: The platypus. I rest my case. ---
**Author:** ![Hilary\_Algar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilary_algar/32/4282_2.png) [@Hilary\_Algar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilary_Algar)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-funny/604781/4 "2011-12-02T11:52:40Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Well, according to Newt Gingrich, he is “destined by God to be President of the United States”. That would be kind of funny if he lost, then. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-funny/604781/5 "2011-12-02T12:11:54Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Well, according to Newt Gingrich, he is “destined by God to be President of the United States”. Cite? (On Gingrich’s quote, not a URL to Divine messages. :smack: ) Google News “Gingrich God” leads to little. (GWB was another of God’s Chosen Presidents; this led to economic prosperity, peace in the Middle East, etc.) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-funny/604781/6 "2011-12-02T15:20:01Z")
I can’t find the quote either. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-funny/604781/7 "2011-12-02T20:15:31Z")
It was according to a journalist (name escapes me) on _The Ed Show_ on MSNBC which aired yesterday, 12-1. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-funny/604781/8 "2011-12-02T20:58:20Z")
This time of year always reminds me that he should have been named Newt Grinch … which sounds like something from a particularly twisted witch’s recipe book. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-funny/604781/9 "2011-12-02T21:06:43Z")
What I have heard is that Gingrich has said that him being elected President is up to God (and the American electorate) to decide, which isn’t quite the same thing. Though both Cain and Bachmann have stated outright that God told them each to run. So I have a mental picture of God sitting back with a bucket of popcorn after setting up a nice round of “Let’s you and him fight.” ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-funny/604781/10 "2011-12-02T21:40:12Z")
Here in Britain, I am getting ads offering me an “experienced newt survey” and great crested newt fencing and “mitigation” at the bottom of this thread. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-funny/604781/11 "2011-12-02T23:38:18Z")
> [@Hilary\_Algar](#): > > That would be kind of funny if he lost, then. “The LORD was with the men of the GOP. They took possession of the red states, but they were unable to drive the Democrats from the swing states, because economic confidence continued to modestly improve.” – [Judges 1:19 1/2](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges%201:19&version=NIV) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-funny/604781/12 "2011-12-02T23:47:55Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > great crested newt fencing Well, I’m pretty sure that’s what kind Newt Gingrich is. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-funny/604781/13 "2011-12-02T23:58:38Z")
I have an old t-shirt I need to get out again. It dates from the time Socks the cat was in the White House. It shows a cartoon of a Socks look-a-like reaching out a claw and snagging a small green lizard by the tail. The lizard looks back over his shoulder in dismay. “No Newt is Good Newt!”