{"id":136875,"date":"2018-08-04T15:29:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T21:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/04\/the-convenience-of-considering-correlation-to-be-causation.html"},"modified":"2018-09-05T19:17:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T01:17:48","slug":"the-convenience-of-considering-correlation-to-be-causation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/04\/the-convenience-of-considering-correlation-to-be-causation.html","title":{"rendered":"The Convenience of Considering Correlation to be Causation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It takes some massive blind spots to play the &quot;This awful natural disaster is occurring in this place because They Have Sinned Against The Lord,&quot; but that doesn&#39;t keep dolts like Kevin Swanson from doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Like, for example, hey, Kev &#8212; why does God pay such strict attention to state lines? I mean, why punish California as a whole? Why not, I don&#39;t know, punish individual counties based on their voting records or number of gay people or something? I mean, a lot of these fires are happening in some pretty conservative \/ rural areas of the state &#8212; why is God punishing <i>them<\/i> for the sins of the more liberal population centers?<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m not sure if I&#39;m more disturbed thinking that Swanson is just a &quot;God must hate the people I hate&quot; sort who can&#39;t actually figure out the huge logic gaps in his analysis (let alone his theology), or if he&#39;s a publicity hound looking to boost his ratings no matter who it hurts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/post\/kevin-swanson-god-is-burning-down-california-as-punishment-for-legitimizing-homosexuality\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/kqFuDvf8duffSdwOKKaQeHprDa9yj5GUv0S_bGtooK7zYUWNyOedwqZv8lRgFd97m5jM_mjpgw6MLmh4KmgM8xboRxnnhzL8vkfl=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/post\/kevin-swanson-god-is-burning-down-california-as-punishment-for-legitimizing-homosexuality\/'>Kevin Swanson: &lsquo;God Is Burning Down California&rsquo; As Punishment For Legitimizing Homosexuality | Right Wing Watch<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nRadical anti-LGBTQ radio host and pastor Kevin Swanson said on his\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/BwZzewbp17G'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes some massive blind spots to play the &quot;This awful natural disaster is occurring in this place because They Have Sinned Against The Lord,&quot; but that doesn&#39;t keep dolts like Kevin Swanson from doing so. Like, for example, hey, Kev &#8212; why does God pay such strict attention to state lines? I mean, why &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/04\/the-convenience-of-considering-correlation-to-be-causation.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Convenience of Considering Correlation to be Causation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-religious-zanies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131720,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/03\/on-the-joys-of-the-swanson-tv-dinner.html","url_meta":{"origin":136875,"position":0},"title":"On the Joys of the Swanson TV Dinner","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 3-Oct-16 12:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I, too, used to love these things. Mind you, my mom always cooked us great meals at home, but Swanson TV Dinners included stuff we usually didn't get: fried chicken, Tater Tots, weird crusty desserts, things like that. 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