Who needs a doctor...

Once upon a time, a man sat on his porch as a flood warning was beginning. His neigbor was pulling out of the driveway following the evacuation order from the community officials. The neigbor said, "Hey. Jump in. We can ride out together to avoid the flood." The man responded, "I have faith. God will save me from the impending flood."

A little while later, the water covered the street, and an SUV cut it's way through the flood. A stranger rolled down the window and said, "Hey fellow. Jump in, this flood is going to get worse." The man responded, "I have faith. God will save me from the impending flood."

As time passed, the water became high enough that the man had to move inside and look out his second floor window. A boat came by, and the man in the boat yelled out, "Jump in. This flood is going to get worse." The man responded, "I have faith. God will save me from the impending flood."

The man was forced to climb to the roof as the flood entered his second floor. A rescue helicopter whirled overhead and a voice came from a bull-horn yelling, "Grab this rope ladder. we'll save you." The man yelled back, "I have faith. God will save me from the impending flood."

The man drowned.

When he reached the pearly gates, the man said to Saint Peter, "I had faith. Why did God let me drown?" Saint Pete responded, "We sent you a car, an SUV, and boat and a helicopter. What else were we supposed to do?"

I first heard this story when I was a financial planner, I was in Vancouver for training and we had this insurance salesman "superstar" giving us a speech. In it he told us about dealing with a particularly difficult religious couple while trying to sell them insurance. They rejected everything he tried with "God will provide for us", about to give up he then told the story above, at the end of the story he looks at them with dead seriousness and asks "how do you know God didn't send me?"

He made a sale.

Bwhahahaha.

Brilliant.

But back on topic, I really wish people would stop thinking faith will save them already. It clearly doesn't work. Have some personal accountability.

I liked that story a lot better when Karl Malden told it, and not a Canadian goth.

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Technicaly she's "Canadian Croatian"

Still not Karl Malden.

Incase they think it happened for a reason (and you know they do): http://youtube.com/watch?v=MUkkEwkeuTU

The love for your kid should destroy the love for your God. Especially when you see the kid in pain. Hope they go to jail forever, honestly.

Unfortunately, this is how songs like "Jesus, Take the Wheel" get written.

I'll pray for them.


...to be locked-up and the key to be thrown...

Fools & Religion are a deadly mix. The quote at the end really pissed me off...

Yeah, how well did that work out the last time they left a life in God's hands?

"God helps those who help themselves to conventional medical care."

As a financial planner, I've used this myself.

I'm a Christian, and I think "God will provide for us" is a load of crap. I guess I don't need to work for money, because "God will provide for me..."

I have a cousin who recently did a similar thing. She sent out an email letting friends and family know about a surgery her infant son had just gone through. She said something about tubes in his ears, and said the doctor told her the son may have some hearing damage. She than added "but we know he doesn't because our God is bigger than that..." So if it turns out he does have hearing damage, what does that say about God? Nimrod...

I just love the fact that folks like this think God's on call 24/7 to get their personal shit done. Hey, God's got more than enough stuff going on, like y'know, keeping all of Creation chugging along, keeping Satan in check, assigning tasks to angels, etc. than to watch your egocentric ass. And when He does help out, which is often, He does it subtlely (see the WG and McIrish stories). He's NOT going to personally show up at your house... "Hey, I heard your kid was sick?" and fix the problem.

Also, whatever happened to guardian angels? Remember when you were a kid and were told you had a guardian angel watching over you? Are they still on duty? Are they pissed that you keep taking your requests directly to God, and you're keeping them out of the loop? Then God has to reprimand them for not doing their jobs, so now He has to deal with these problems, like He doesn't have enough to do.

I have it on good authority that the guardian angel union has been on strike for the last 237 years. It's really made a mess of things.

oooh ooooh me me ME!

clearing my throat

It says that he had a higher purpose in what He allowed to happen. It was for the *best*.

For someone. Maybe the person that can't hear so well any more.