{"id":4134,"date":"2003-02-01T15:45:03","date_gmt":"2003-02-01T20:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4134"},"modified":"2003-02-01T15:45:03","modified_gmt":"2003-02-01T20:45:03","slug":"the_blame_game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/02\/01\/the_blame_game.html","title":{"rendered":"The Blame Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been considering, most of my on-line day, what to say about folks who take a disaster and attribute it to the Wrath of God, such as Mr. Mohammed Jaber al-Tamini of Iraq, who opines <\/a>that the Columbia <\/i>disaster is God’s response to Israeli aggression against Iraq.<\/p>\n

It’s not, certainly, something that is attributable to Islam alone. After all, one of the more famous examples of it, of late, was the Rev. Jerry Falwell’s attribution <\/a>of the 9\/11 attacks to God being torqued with gays, liberals and feminists. His brother in service to Christ, the Rev. Pat Robertson, has similarly suggested that Florida gets hit by hurricanes because, among other things, DisneyWorld allows “Gay Days.”<\/p>\n

So it’s not a sectarian thing. Hmmm. <\/p>\n

How about idiocy? Can we blame it on idiocy? Heartless, egocentric idiocy? ‘Cause, to be honest, that seems to cover all the bases here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been considering, most of my on-line day, what to say about folks who take a disaster and attribute it to the Wrath of God, such as Mr. Mohammed Jaber…<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2718,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/01\/and_now_a_guest.html","url_meta":{"origin":4134,"position":0},"title":"And now, a guest editorial","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-Oct-02 10:16am","format":false,"excerpt":"I'd comment at length about the idiocy in this story about a Danish researcher who's concluded that scolding kids is as harmful and reprehensible as beating them ... ... but...","rel":"","context":"In "Parenting"","block_context":{"text":"Parenting","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/personal\/parenting"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2996,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/23\/give_it_to_pila.html","url_meta":{"origin":4134,"position":1},"title":"“Give it to Pilar — and only to Pilar”","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 23-Aug-02 2:50pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Wonder of wonder and miracle of miracles, the TSA may actually issue a common-sense amendment to the idiocy that passes for airport security these days. 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