My immediate thought was that he had something to do with the fires. I don't know much about them and although it sounds like an act of nature, if ANY arson is suspected then I hope that he has been considered as a suspect. His taking The Bible out of context and warping scripture to suit his OWN needs or opinions is as common as cotton candy at the fair. When a security guard, who also left several kyds fatherless, was killed during a bombing of a Birmingham abortion clinic I was APPALLED at some of the religious nut rhetoric that was spewed. Some said he shouldn't have been working for the clinic because by working for them he was condoning abortion, so therefore his death was due to his sinful association with the "death mill". Technically, he worked for a security company (NOT the clinic) and just happened to draw the short straw that day for working OUTSIDE of the clinic. Ironically, if it wasn't for PROTESTERS he wouldn't have HAD a fucking security detail at the clinic on the day that he was killed in the first place. Others said that they thought that he was an innocent victim, BUT that unfortunately innocent people had to die in order to bring the pro-choicers to their senses.
This man's "vision" and logic are complete and utter bullshit, thoughtless, uncaring, cruel, and an outright lie. For people to claim that OTHERS (it's never them or THEIR famblees) are being punished for some abstract "sin" that the state or community is supposedly bringing upon themselves is preposterous. It sounds a lot like that fucked up Rev. Phelps and his "godhatesfags" website ran by his Westboro Baptist church bunch. They believe that ENTIRE STATES are being punished when a natural disaster happens if they have recently upheld gay rights-marriage-civil unions, abortion, or any number of other things that he doesn't like. He thinks that the woman who was mauled to death in her apartment hallway by the vicious dogs was directly caused by God himself as punishment because she was a lesbian.
They also protest at soldiers' funerals and bring untold extra grief to the families with their picket signs exclaiming that soldiers/military are fags because the military lets them serve or of being war mongers or baybe killers because they serve their countries. I seriously have a problem with preachers blaming innocent people for the alleged wrath of God brought about by someone else's alleged sin, or even by an actual or perceived "sin" of their own.
THESE are the people who make me have a sour view of religious fanatical types. I would like to ask this bastard. "So why did your mother get cancer then? What horrible sin did she commit to deserve all of that suffering and subsequent death? Come on, we KNOW she did something or it wouldn't have happened" or......"So, what sin (s) did your 15 y/o son commit to have drowned at the famblee picnic in '97? Was he wanking off, diddling little boys, looking at porn? Was he judged due to the sins of his father perhaps? Exactly WHAT SIN did your little bastard commit????" Only I don't think it's my place to openly judge others, assign guilt or punishment, and CERTAINLY not to cause additional pain to grieving people whoever they may be or because of whatever my personal opinion is of their recent personal or family loss or devastation.