God sucks!

[Locutus]

Not too good of a time to be in the gospel singing business.  God seems to be after them.  Here's another one:



LOGANTON, Pa. - Gospel singer the Rev. Timothy Wright was critically injured in a crash that killed his wife and a wrong-way driver, police in central Pennsylvania said Saturday.

A hospital spokesman said Wright was injured Friday night along with his 14-year-old grandson, D.J. Wright.

State police said 58-year-old Betty Wright of Roosevelt, N.Y., died in the three-vehicle crash on Interstate 80. The driver of the car that was going the wrong way also died.

Timothy Wright's latest album, "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus," came out last year.

Geisinger Medical Center said a passenger in the third vehicle was in fair condition.

[Locutus]

After just killing off Dottie Rambo back in May:


KNOXVILLE (WVLT) – KNOXVILLE (WVLT) – Gospel music legend Dottie Rambo, 74 was killed early Sunday morning when her tour bus ran off the road in southwest Missouri and struck an embankment.

Rambo played a show Saturday evening in Granite City, Illinois, and was headed to play a Sunday night show in North Richland Hills, Texas when the wreck occurred a couple miles east of Mount Vernon on I-44.

Representatives from her recording label confirmed to WVLT that the Kentucky native was asleep at the time of the accident, and her manager Larry Ferguson was on the bus along with his wife and two children.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol said a total of seven people were on the bus and injured in the accident. They were all hospitalized in Springfield with injuries ranging from moderate to severe.

Dottie Rambo was regarded as a legend throughout the musical community. She was born in the western Kentucky coal mining town of Madisonville and began singing when she was 12 years old.

She has published more than 2,500 songs, including "We Shall Behold Him," "Holy Spirit Though Art Welcome (In the Place)," and "I Go to the Rock."

She was awarded the 1968 Grammy for Best Soul Gospel Performance for "The Soul of Me."

In 2006, Former Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher approved Rambo's induction into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame, and she was made a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007.

Upon learning of her death, Dolly Parton issued a release calling Dottie, "a dear friend, fellow singer, songwriter and entertainer, and lately duet singing partner."

Doug Hutchison, who is the son of current Mulls Singing Convention host Charlotte Mull Hutchison and grandson of Rev. J. Bazzel Mull said Dottie devoted herself to music and the lord.

"She was in Illinois last night and headed to Texas for another concert today," he said. "It's hard to be sad for Dottie, because we know where she is."



It's hard to be sad for Dottie?  They know where she is? 

The evidence just keeps rolling in that God sucks and really doesn't give much of a damn about the people out to serve him. 

[Sandy Eggo]

I'm glad you posted this. I saw the same stories and immediately thought of this thread.

[Henry Hawk]

The evidence just keeps rolling in that God sucks and really doesn't give much of a damn about the people out to serve him. 

It is only because you refuse to understand what it is to be a Christian....all the more reason to accept the free will theory that God tells us about....since the begginning of Adam....when the fall began..........we are ALL subject to the percussions of our own sins..........

Why God chooses to take some people and protect others.........is like the saying goes..."Only God knows"........and that is truly sufficient enough for Christians....

I lost my own Pastor, friend and mentor about two years ago.....it was extremely painful, and I could not figure out WHY God would take a man who was able to mentor and touch so many people as he did..........but, my pastor, though was deathly ill.....continued to Preach and praise God up until the moment he died....and by this I beleive God was able to show me how great He actual IS.....that He does have a promise to all of us....and He IS in complete controll.....and despite our human emotional responses.....that He can still touch us personaly and give us peace even during horrible times.

[dan foster]

Man sues Tenn. church for injuries after claiming spirit of God forced him to fall

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - A man says he was so consumed by the spirit of God that he fell and hit his head while worshipping.

Now he wants Lakewind Church to pay $2.5 million for medical bills, lost income, and pain and suffering.

Matt Lincoln says he is suing after the church's insurance company denied his claim for medical bills.

The 57-year-old has had two surgeries since the June 2007 injury but still feels pain in his back and legs.

He says he was asking God to have "a real experience" while praying.

http://www.startribune.com/nation/24315059.html

[Sandy Eggo]

LMAO! So I wonder what he considers to be his "real experience"? Crackin' his noggin' or getting told to get lost by the insurance company?

This story is nuts in SO many ways

[awol]

y'know, using these cases of death and suffering as evidence that god doesn't care about us is intellectually dishonest.  there's also the possibility that death and suffering don't mean diddly to god.

the most that can be said is that god doesn't care about the same things you and i care about.

[pariann]

Death is the culmination of life. It's expected.  I think that we ask for our experiences in life and God graciously allows it because they are OUR lessons to learn.  Including pain and suffering.

[dan foster]

Death is the culmination of life. It's expected.  I think that we ask for our experiences in life and God graciously allows it because they are OUR lessons to learn.  Including pain and suffering.

Sorry, but shit happens; good, bad, etc.  AND, there is nothing behind it.  We do good and bad things.  We make good and bad decisions.  We are the master of our own fates, but quite often, shit happens and it's no one's fault, especially some deity's.

There are about 300,000,000 US citizens and a 1,000,000 to 1 thing happens about 300 times per day.  Its random and no amount of superstition, mythology or theology (I realize that is a redundant sequence, unlike most) will change what happens, good or bad.

[dan foster]

LMAO! So I wonder what he considers to be his "real experience"? Crackin' his noggin' or getting told to get lost by the insurance company?

This story is nuts in SO many ways

Really whacked.  Wonder why god didn't either break his fall or get him a check from the insurance company?  Most mortals could have at least done either of those things 

[pariann]

You believe what you want to believe, I'll believe what I believe.

[Henry Hawk]

y'know, using these cases of death and suffering as evidence that god doesn't care about us is intellectually dishonest.  there's also the possibility that death and suffering don't mean diddly to god.

the most that can be said is that god doesn't care about the same things you and i care about.

ya may be right awol........and i'm not claiming i even remotely know the mind of God.....BUT, Jesus wept on occasions...i.e Lazuras....He also, had blood of sweat disperse before His day of crusificition....I think God does very much know all about suffering...........He made us after his own image.......I don't think there is ANY "intellectually" dishonesty in using cases of death and suffering.......

[dan foster]

ya may be right awol........and i'm not claiming i even remotely know the mind of God.....BUT, Jesus wept on occasions...i.e Lazuras....He also, had blood of sweat disperse before His day of crusificition....I think God does very much know all about suffering...........He made us after his own image.......I don't think there is ANY "intellectually" dishonesty in using cases of death and suffering.......

Jesus had a quick ending and suffered nothing like the families who were drown by god in the flood.  Heck, I would bet McLame suffered more than jesus.  So, why is "his" death of some importance?

[konquererz]

While crucification is indeed a horrible way to die, there are documented cases of even worse crucifictions than Jesus.  The Romans documented many times in which leaders of rebellions were crucified and kept alive, nailed to a cross on the side of the road, for days, then smear in meat so the wild animals would tear him apart.  Very gruesome.  Holocaust survivors tell tales of suffering that never ended.  Jesus death on the cross wasn't even the worst that you could go through then.  It seems rather over dramatic to make his death something more than it was to make it seem like it was greater than all just so he could die for everyones sins.  If all sin was that easily cleansed, then why need a death at all? After all, god makes the rules right? If god makes the rules, then he could have just as easily forgiven everyones sins without anyone dying but chose not too.  If god is all powerful, then god didn't NEED any sacrifice to forgive sins, he just required it.  What kind of being requires death to obtain his forgiveness? No father would ever be accepted to do that.   

[konquererz]

It is gods will for him to have a "wonderful" experience then run up huge medical bills that ruin him financially.