Multi-faith dialogue

We are looking for earthly solutions, how to prevent them… I have another way to prevent earthquakes. The Gemara says that one of the reasons earthquakes happen – which the Knesset legitimizes – is homosexuality… God says you shake your genitals where you are not supposed to and I will shake my world in order to wake you up.

– Shlomo Benizri, ultra-othodox Knesset member, on last week’s earthquake in Israel

God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve… The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. 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.’

– Jerry Falwell, fundamentalist Christian demagogue, speaking on September 14, 2001 about the terrorist atrocities of September 11, 2001

This is a strong and definite judgment because the world has been arrogant in going its own way… We are reaping the consequences of our moral degradation, as well as the environmental damage that we have caused. We are in serious moral trouble because every type of lifestyle is now regarded as legitimate… In the Bible, institutional power is referred to as ‘the beast’, which sets itself up to control people and their morals. Our government has been playing the role of God in saying that people are free to act as they want… The sexual orientation regulations are part of a general scene of permissiveness. We are in a situation where we are liable for God’s judgment, which is intended to call us to repentance.

– The Right Reverend Graham Dow, Bishop of Carlisle, of the ‘liberal, moderate’ Church of England, on the floods that devastated Britain in 2007.

Thanks: HP