It’s probably not over DADT repeal.
You’ll remember yesterday I posted a video of prophetess Cindy Jacobs doing her loopy preaching thing, wherein she claimed that God was making birds fall out of the sky in Arkansas because DADT was repealed.
PZ Myers has now responded:
Again, I don’t quite get the logic. God hates gays, so he’s taken to randomly smiting birds in Arkansas. What’s the sense in that? Were these gay birds? Were they wagging their cloacas heavenward and bragging in bird song about coming out? It’s a confusing message that really doesn’t come across well.
If this god really wanted to communicate the idea that gay sex is bad, and somehow do it using birds, it would have made more sense to, say, have birds smash through windows and throw themselves across any orifice about to be penetrated by a gay man. That would shake people up.
And don’t do it in Arkansas — try New York and San Francisco. Birds dropping dead in Arkansas is more likely to be interpreted as a sign of offense at NASCAR or country music or committing incest while barefoot with a corncob pipe in one’s mouth (I know, it’s an unfair stereotype, but you know god doesn’t seem to be operating on the basis of individual behavior, any way).
We who hail from Arkansas say “touché, P.Z., touché!“
And God must have been really pissed off at the good ole, small town, patriotic, real, Sarah Palin lovin’ Christian Americans because He killed three people in the northwestern Arkansas hamlet of Cincinnati when a tornado touched down just before sunrise on New Year’s Eve. And the three others who died when a storm caused by the same weather system ripped up the countryside near Rolla, Missouri.
If God’s mad about DADT why doesn’t he do something that actually effects gay soldiers–or the people who passed the law? It doesn’t make sense to take it out on birds or Arkansas. It’s kind of like–my neighbor’s dog poops on my lawn so I burn down the house of a stranger a few towns over.
Good analogy Daniel. It just shows how desperate the religious right wing is to find some evidence of validation for their hatred.
And Priya, I also think it shows how desperate the religious right is to find some shred of evidence of their god’s existence that they are reduced to postulating such inane/stupid/idiotic notions that could only be persuasive to the terminally gullible.
I agree Richard.
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