Posted on 11/05/2016 7:40:43 AM PDT by Olog-hai
An Italian priest has said the recent earthquakes that have shaken the country, killing hundreds and leaving tens of thousands homeless, were “divine punishment” for gay civil unions, earning the Vatican's wrath.
Father Giovanni Cavalcoli, a theologian known for his hardline views, made the comments on October 30, the day central Italy was struck by a 6.6-magnitude quake — the most powerful to hit the country in 36 years — according to Italian media. […]
Cavalcoli said on Radio Maria that the seismic shocks were “divine punishment” for "the offense to the family and the dignity of marriage, in particular through civil unions”.
The radio station distanced itself from his views, and late Friday the Vatican issued a stinging rebuke, saying the idea of a vengeful God was “a pagan vision” dating from “the pre-Christian era”. …
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LEVITICUS 18:25
Because the entire land has become defiled, I am punishing the people who live there. I will cause the land to vomit them out.
In earthquakes, I think God works more strongly, more surely, and more scientifically through plate tectonics.
Priest needs a course in tectonics.
Kill innocent people and bring down an ancient church. That’ll learn ‘em.
Sheesh!
“Innocent” by what standard?
Hey, if the Pope can believe in Global Warming as a sin against Gaia, this guy shouldn’t need science, either.
It’s a sign for Americans to vote the right way or else.
Ruh Roh! He better hope the pope doesn’t hear about that. He’ll never attain sainthood with that attitude. ;-)
When I think of the Earth Moving, I think of Hemingway’s “For whom the bell tolls.”
The ayatolla of Iran said earthquakes were caused by women dressed immodest. Who to believe?
Innocent by the standard the priest cited. Not everyone in the region is a sodomite.
All fall short of what God wants of us. He formed the outer Earth as a tectonic system that some may succumb to, but that our species overall may live upon.
This priest reminds me of Pat Robertson, who said something similar after an earthquake in LA in the early nineties without realizing that without tectonics he’d have literally nothing to stand on, nor broadcast from.
From a Biblical standpoint, Cavalcoli is certainly more in tune than the Vatican is, whose rebuke smacks of antisemitism, frankly.
The fact that there are no human beings that do not sin is covered in the OT as well, especially 1 Kings 8:46 and Ecclesiastes 7:20. But that does not mean that God is fickle in such actions as upheavals of the earth, weather et al.
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