Good few hurricane years for Florida?
Gov. Charlie Crist (R) is telling supporters that that's because of a personal request he put in to God back in 2007.
Gov. Charlie Crist (R-FL) is really taking his appeals to the state's religious right to a new level, in his campaign for Senate.
Town Hall reports that Crist was speaking to a group of real estate agents, and credited prayer notes in the Western Wall in Jerusalem with preventing his state from being hit by hurricanes during his time as governor.
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That's nice. Really, really nice. How sweet that Charlie's FAITH is so strong.
So, I guess god only listens to political hacks from Florida?
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: August 21, 2009
WILLIAMSVILLE, Ill. (AP) - One of only two churches in Williamsville, Illinois, has been destroyed by a tornado that struck Wednesday afternoon. Volunteers spent yesterday hauling away tons of debris in trucks. Around 10 of the buildings damaged in the town near Springfield are beyond repair and will likely have to be bulldozed, including the remnants of a brown-brick church that was built in the early half of the 20th century. The church’s roof and walls collapsed, but its steeple is still standing.
Williamsville board president Tom Yokley said, “That church has been a cornerstone of the community.“ But now, he said, “It’s gone. It’s destroyed.“
TIFFANY SIMMONS
WRBL NEWS 3
Published: February 28, 2009
Pastor Kendra Jacobs lives in Phenix City and she says when she got a phone call about her church being destroyed by a tornado, she says she thought it was not as bad as the caller described.
Jacobs says she was devistated when she arrived to the church but at the same time she was grateful it was not Sunday when everyone was partaking in church service.
“This is something that you see on television but nothing that you’ve ever experienced,“ she says.
“Just to see all around to just look at all the different parts of the church and things that are still standing the things that are gone away, one of the things that has caught my attention is that in the choir stand, we have that picture of the praying hands. It’s still there and so it gives confirmation to me to continue to pray that everything’s gonna be alright.“
Pastor Jacobs has been at the church for 2 years now. She says the church was supposed to have it’s 162nd anniversary in a couple of weeks. Jacobs says regardless of where they will be on that week, they will still celebrate the church’s anniversary.
Third Tennessee church falls victim to tornado destruction
by Bill Dalglish
(ENS) "We will rebuild, and it will be on the same spot in
historic downtown Clarksville!" The message resonated from Rector
David Murray, Senior Warden Steve Dial and members of the vestry
and congregation of Trinity Episcopal Church, one of the oldest
congregations in the Diocese of Tennessee, shortly after the
church building was destroyed by a tornado on January 22.
The ornate 120-year-old structure, extensivly remodeled just
nine years ago, was part of the destruction that turned downtown
Clarksville, about 40 miles northwest of Nashville, from one of
the state's most attractive historic districts into what many
described as a "war zone," with rubble from 150 damaged or
destroyed buildings clogging the once stately streets and
walkways. Another of Clarksville's prominent churches, Madison
Street United Methodist Church (which had just completed a $1.2-
million renovation) was also destroyed, as well as the stately
county courthouse.
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By Lew Moores
The Cincinnati Enquirer
XENIA — It had been raining and then it got dark and then it hit.
Austyn Thurman, 7, heard someone yell, “Everybody get down!” as children began scrambling for the basement of the Xenia Church of God on Upper Bellbrook Road.
“I heard lots of noise and screaming,” said Austyn. “I got hit with a board. Then I went back and helped some people.”
Austyn stood outside the demolished church Thursday morning with his father, Bill Thurman, the youth pastor. The church collapsed on itself from the force of the tornado that tore through this town Wednesday night. The church grounds were littered with limbs from fractured trees, shingles, snapped utility poles.
Austyn was one of 20 children at the church when the winds hit, while another 80 gathered at a barn for a church activity about 200 yards away. Also at the barn was Austyn's father. Some of the children at the barn watched in horror as they saw the church crumble.
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It took out buildings, swept houses from concrete slabs, imploded some homes, exploded others, destroyed businesses, uprooted trees, tore down power lines and so changed the very landscape that people had to blink to remember the moment before.
A quarter-century ago, much that was familiar to the 25,000 residents in Xenia disappeared.
You know, Charlie, I'm from the midwest, I used to skydive at a DZ in Xenia. I've grown up seeing places all around me flattened. And now I hear you are saying, you fatuous ass, that Florida was spared hurricanes because your stuck some gods-damed litter in an old wall. A wall that, I may add, sure as hell didn't spare Israel or the Temple from being flattened by Rome.
Charlie, god didn't spare Florida because you prayed about it. And while we are at it, Charlie, if your prayers are so powerful, why didn't you pray for the people of Louisiana or Texas or India or Maylasia? Didn't you care about anyplace else, you bastardized POS?
I really find people like you, Charlie Crist, offensive and full of crap. And if you were here, I'd say really mean things to you, you political cretin. I'd rather break your nose, but I am, unfortunately, nice.
Charlie, I will say one, little thing, for all the faithful here abouts that have been killed at various times by "Acts of God". Go fuck yourself, Charlie Crist.
"Crist told of how he visited the Wall in 2007, and placed a note saying: "Dear God, please protect our Florida from storms and other difficulties. Charlie."
"Time goes on -- May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December -- no hurricanes," Crist said. "Thank God."
Crist has also had other people place notes in the Wall in 2008 and 2009.
Crist made it clear that's he's not personally taking credit for Florida having been spared from hurricanes. "I give that to God," Crist said. "But it's nice.""
Whatever.
Hey, maybe Charlie Crist should have prayed to save people's houses from bad loans and Wall Street Friends of Bush? Maybe? But those are little people, right? You have to see the Big Picture!