Now, Lord, I can sorta understand being annoyed with us. But what the fuck did Haiti ever do to You?
That’s just a sign that God loves drive-in movies.
I KNEW this was going to happen.
Think about it: An act of ‘God’ brings together the number one barking boy for the GOP and President Obama together. Inspiring the whole nation to set aside their differences to put this broken nation together again. [This from the POV of the minister]
If you think about all the nuance and coincidences involved, it is pretty staggering.
Personally I don’t subscribe to the minister linked in the OP, but I can see how a devoutly religious person would.
I have the same question, though for different reasons than njtt.
While pro-Obama, the quoted message was somewhat “bipartisan” and emphasized unity. One need not be a theist to feel spiritual inspiration in the reaction to a calamity.
[QUOTE=Rev. Williams]
We are sure to see Romney and Ryan passing sandbags instead of passing campaign literature …
… we see Christie in a news interview and in an official Twitter message appearing thankful for the President’s leadership and a unified message from democratic and republican politicians urging evacuation and safety.
[/QUOTE]
I pit the Dopers in this thread who are so eager to demonstrate their atheism and “objectivity” that they compare Rev. William’s remarks with, e.g. the hateful remarks of Pat Robertson blaming Katrina on Roe-v-Wade.
I don’t think “God wants you to vote for Obama, although the other guys are nice people” is a bipartisan message.
Haiti is the home of zombies, and God hates zombies.
On this MB it is! 
I would love to see the two crazies together in a cage match.
Referee: God.
That should settle who is right.
Clearly a cause and effect relationship.
Even stuff like that could be handwaved away. For instance, if the earth had opened up and swallowed Mitt Romney whole after his “you didn’t call it a terrorist attack” gotcha attempt blew up in his face like one of Wile E. Coyote’s gadgets from ACME, Democrats could cite it as divine displeasure with Mitt’s mendacity while Republicans hailed it as a miraculous rescue.
Funny, I would have thought the opposite. I’m still waiting for the “Thanks to the benevolence of God, we were spared the worst,” because everyone knows hurricanes are the work of the Devil.
I don’t think most people read the link. The article doesn’t sound like the crazy ranting of a madman.
The article starts with several examples of crazy from pat Robertson and then goes on to say how disasters often bring out the best in us.
The article tries to find the silver lining.
The only sentence that supports the title of the OP is the quoted language, which is one of several “maybes”
I’m trying to make sense of the theological implications of these claims.
“God sent this hurricane to tell people his choice for President.”
“If he’s God, why doesn’t he just make that person President?”
“God would never do that. He wants us to have free will and make our own decisions.”
“Then why did he send that hurricane?”
I don’t want to quibble semantics, but in order to make your point you needed to misquote the minister and replace his more ambiguous remark with a different utterance.
(To save a round of rejoinder: one could reasonably guess that meaning from the utterance, but it would be a guess. With the partisan alignment reversed I don’t think you’d caricaturize the minister’s remarks.)
Note that any President should be “a right man” for the job. Changing “a” to “the” changes the meaning slightly but “God wants you to vote for Obama” is an unnecessary leap.
I do not believe in the existence of the Christian God, but I repeat my claim that those comparing this Minister’s utterance to Robertson’s have taken their anti-religion (or political correctness or both) to a zany extreme.
If the partisan alignment were reversed I’d probably have pitted the minister myself. I’m a card-carrying liberal.
Further evidence that God is female. Offers oblique and subtle signals for what She wants, and tears shit up when you are too thick to catch on. Yes, Dear.
This, along with the rabbi who blamed the hurricane on gay marriage, is a nice reminder that religious extremists are usually assholes regardless of their denomination or political affiliation.
Meh, its a joke.
Yep, same bunch of dicks just reading from different books.
And I say this as a practicing Catholic - I’m beginning to understand why I’m getting the stink-eye from the pulpit every Sunday…
Something about them just pisses him off.
Or, ya’know, a direct personal appearance would put a whooooole lot of problems to rest.