jdawg2

Driving back to Dallas from College Station yesterday, I unfortunately got a flat tire...but luckily, I was near a town, so I wasn't stuck out in the middle of nowhere. According to my mother, this was God "blessing" me.

Of course, I just had to laugh and say, "if God is blessing me when I get a flat tire, and there's starving kids and africa and folks flying planes into buildings killing thousands of people, then he's got his priorities really confused."

My mom just looked at me kind of funny after that, and then repeated the dead horse known as the argument from design (all this just had to come from somewhere!) After that, she just said "One day, you will believe." and dropped the subject.

She isn't as bad as some other parents who go crazy when they realize their child doesn't believe in god, so I thank God for that

Matt

You may well need divine intervention if you don't even carry a spare tire while driving across Texas.

Utnapishtim

Hopefully next time God will simply remove the nail from the road. Then he can continue to watch people suffer. <img src="graemlins/banghead.gif" border="0" alt="[Bang Head]" />

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Jamie_L

My thought exactly. If God was really blessing you, wouldn't you have not gotten a flat tire at all?

Which brings up an interesting point: when you have uneventful car trips, does your mom say that God blessed you?

One might just as easily say God punished you by giving you a flat tire - he just didn't punish you as harshly as he could have.

Or maybe God was punishing the tire.

Jamie

jdawg2

Left out a bit of info in my post...I did have a spare tire.

Undercurrent

Let's add it to the

Internet Infidels Divine Intervention List

God, in his mighty omnipotence, has:

1) Elisabeth -- compelled whomever was deciding to drop her from the cheerleading squad so that she may have more fun on the ski team.

2) Tricia -- saved her from being stung by bees from a bee hive she wasn't pestering.

3) LannaLi -- Smitten with a minor traffic accident for rejecting God. Also a cold sore.

4) jdawg2 -- Blessed with a flat tire near a town instead of out in the boonies when he had a spare.

Am I missing any?

m.

Matt

Didn't someone's dog save them from a low hanging bee or hornets nest while running through the woods? I can't remember who it was though.

beachbum

YES.

God destroyed Orland, florida about 3 years ago because Disney World let a bunch of gays pay $45.00 per person to enter the Magic Kingdom and attend "Gay Pride"

God utterly destroyed San Francisco, or was it San Diego or San something in Ca several years ago because they had held a pro-abortion ralley there a few weeks before.
Oh, wait a minute, Orlando wasn't destroyed, there were just forest fires in florida. Falwell fucked up, or was that Robertson? San something wasn't destroyed either just a lot of damage from an earthquake.