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Related: About this forum'God Allows Terrorists to Strike' Because 'We Don't Give Him Our Attention Until We Are Desperate'
...Says Billy Graham's Daughter Anne Graham Lotzhttp://www.christianpost.com/news/god-allows-terrorists-to-strike-because-we-dont-give-him-our-attention-until-we-are-desperate-says-billy-grahams-daughter-anne-graham-lotz-140466/
Lotz added that God sends wake-up calls to let people know that His judgement is coming and that they need to turn to Him, repent and pray that He will send His blessings instead of harsh judgement.
"That is why God sends us wake-up calls. That's why he allows the terrorists to strike or a tornado to rip through our city, because for whatever reason, we don't seem to give Him our attention until we are desperate," Lotz contended. "If we don't give Him our attention, then He is going to allow things to happen to make us more and more desperate until we do cry out."
Although God sends wake-up calls, Lotz said that there eventually comes a "point of no return" where God will no longer listen to pleas for His mercy and will simply unleash His judgement if people still aren't repenting even with the warning signs.
Wow, he allows terrorists to kill innocent people because we aren't paying him enough attention? What a horrible, evil god Lotz and her ilk believe in.
rhiannon55
(2,671 posts)is beyond me.
And they don't even question the absurdity of it.
Cartoonist
(7,317 posts)Terrorists to use his name?
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)What decent father would allow his children to come to mortal harm because the children didn't send him regular birthday cards?
rurallib
(62,423 posts)mr blur
(7,753 posts)Reminds me of the old Adventure pulp fiction we used to read in which the local tribes who lived closest to the volcano just knew that if you didn't throw a few virginal women in there from time to time the thing would destroy you. It was true! - remember the times when it overflowed - that was because people didn't behave properly!
These people are so wilfully stupid they make me want to
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)Or who hear it and believe it also will tell you that "he" will never abandon you. How they hold firmly to both of those thoughts is beyond me. And why would they continue to listen to someone who tells them what a petty, cruel god they are supposed to worship and in the next breath says forgiveness of your "sins" by this god is a central tenet of the faith.
Maybe if she actually listened to what she was saying she could get a clue why the number of people identifying as Christians is declining.....
gcomeau
(5,764 posts)...God as spoiled attention seeking tantrum throwing 4 year old with super powers...that's what these people worship.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Most 4-year-olds have a sense of empathy. Their god is clearly no more developed than a 3-year-old toddler.
gcomeau
(5,764 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)SOUNDS like her God was made in mans image, if you ask me.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)Jerry Falwell said on The 700 Club on the day after 9/11:
I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say "you helped this happen."
Pat Robertson, who was sitting next to him, concurred.