# Is God mad at us? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 22, 2006, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-god-mad-at-us/381431 "2006-11-22T16:14:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-god-mad-at-us/381431/41 "2006-11-23T21:09:00Z")
I’m just wondering in what sense this qualifies as a “Great Debate”? I can think of few subjects more appropriate for MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Nothing\_Special](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9f8e36/32.png) [@Nothing\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nothing_Special)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-god-mad-at-us/381431/42 "2006-11-23T22:11:10Z")
[QUOTE=Clothahump] In order for God to be mad at us… There has to be a God of some sort in the first place. And there is no evidence that one has ever existed. [/QUOTE] So, when they drop the topic after 2 days, are they (the national media) fairly admitting that there really isn’t any such thing as God? ---
**Author:** ![Nothing\_Special](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9f8e36/32.png) [@Nothing\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nothing_Special)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-god-mad-at-us/381431/43 "2006-11-23T22:12:55Z")
[QUOTE=panache45] I’m just wondering in what sense this qualifies as a “Great Debate”? I can think of few subjects more appropriate for MPSIMS. [/QUOTE] Who died and left you Mod? ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-god-mad-at-us/381431/44 "2006-11-24T01:02:31Z")
God’s power must’ve been sapped over the years if all he can do nowadays is send a dinky hurricane every once in awhile to kill random people on the coasts. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-god-mad-at-us/381431/45 "2006-11-24T04:32:20Z")
I wonder if people project their own personalities onto God. Does Falwell see an angry God because he himself is punitive? Why would he think that of such a pleasant God? Everyone knows She wears Revlon’s Love That Red lipstick and drinks margaritas. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-god-mad-at-us/381431/46 "2006-11-24T06:10:22Z")
[QUOTE=Nothing Special] Who died and left you Mod? [/QUOTE] Hmm - Mod rhymes with God. Accident? I think not. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-god-mad-at-us/381431/47 "2006-11-25T01:12:39Z")
[QUOTE=mstay] God’s power must’ve been sapped over the years if all he can do nowadays is send a dinky hurricane every once in awhile to kill random people on the coasts. [/QUOTE] In 2003 I remember when Abu Hamza al-Masri called the death of the 7 shuttle astronauts God’s revenge. Not sure what his sermon was like 7 days later when twice the number of pilgrims were killed during the Hajj. Between all the deadly earthquakes in Iran/Pakistan and a tsunami that killed over 1/4 million people the day after Christmas I would think the whole “vengeful God” thing would be a dead issue. But I’m sure when Al-Masri gets out of prison he’ll get his old followers back by hook or by crook. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-god-mad-at-us/381431/48 "2006-11-25T03:46:42Z")
[QUOTE=Nothing Special] Wait a minute. Isn’t that what we’re doing when we toss out the turkey carcass? Should we be throwing it on a bonfire? Look, I don’t want God to be scraping around a landfill any more than I want to myself, but still, when you waste food in any way, isn’t that to the glory of God? I mean, as long as one intends it to be so? [/QUOTE] Then God must really hate me… I don’t waste food. However, “If God dwells inside us like some people say, I sure hope He likes enchiladas, because that’s what He’s getting”. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-god-mad-at-us/381431/49 "2006-11-26T12:24:23Z")
Surely Gods day to day planning would spatially be on the scale of trillions of light years in an infinite universe and time wise measured in aeons when you consider eternity? The complete destruction of our solar system would at best be a very trivial event in the great scheme of things ,just as when humans are building a railway several thousand miles long and knock a wasps nest out of the way we aren’t sending a signal of disapproval to the wasps about their morals. It seems a little arrogant of us believing that we are the "be all"and “end all” of the entire cosmos. That said it could be my fault ifGod IS pissed at us as I found myself coveting my neighbours ox in an entirely unnatural way last week. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-god-mad-at-us/381431.md?page=2)