Right Wing Minister Claims Colorado Floods Due To Homosexuality And Abortion

Right Wing Minister Claims Colorado Floods Due To Homosexuality And Abortion (AUDIO)

Author: Wes Williams September 21, 2013 2:34 PM

 

If the floods in Colorado are due to sin, why do most of our natural disasters occur in America’s most religious states? Infographic on church attendance from Gallup.com.

Right wing radio host and minister Kevin Swanson is at it again. Swanson, who back in June blamed Colorado’s wildfires on a gay kiss between Colorado’s State House Majority Leader Mark Ferrandino and his partner, is now saying that Colorado’s floods have been caused by “legislators commit[ing] homosexual acts” and abortions.
Speaking on his Generations Radio show, Swanson had this to say:

Let me ask you this: Is it a coincidence that this was the worst year politically in the history of Colorado, at least if you use God’s law as a means of determining human ethics, our legislators did the worst possible things this year than I have ever witnessed in the twenty years I’ve been in Colorado. Our legislators committed homosexual acts on the front page of the Denver Post, do you remember that? So here we have the very worst year in Colorado’s year in terms of let’s kill as many babies as possible, let’s make sure we encourage as much decadent homosexual activity as possible, let’s break God’s law with impudence at every single level, at every single level let’s make sure that we offend whoever wrote the Bible, so we have the worst year possible politically in the state of Colorado and it happens to be the worst year ever in terms of flood and fire damage in Colorado’s history. That is a weird coincidence; interesting to say the least.

 

Here’s the audio, courtesy of RightWing Watch:
It’s an interesting theory, and one that has been advanced before to explain other disasters of “Biblical proportions,” such as when Pat Robertson blamed the Haiti earthquake on that country’s supposed “pact with the devil.” But like so many claims made by these corporate spokespersons for the almighty, the notion that floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other calamities are the products of god’s wrath on the wicked doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.
If god wanted to punish the “wicked” by creating a temporary hell on earth through a disaster, it would seem logical that most of those disasters would occur in the least religious states. According to a Gallup Poll of church attendance conducted in 2010, the following states had the lowest percentage of respondents who said they attended church “weekly or almost every week”:

• Vermont-23%
• New Hampshire-26%
• Maine-27%
• Massachusetts-29%
• Nevada-30%
• Hawaii-31%
• Oregon-31%
• Alaska-31%
• Washington-32%
• Rhode Island-32%
• Connecticut-32%

The following states had the highest percentage of regular church attendance:

• Mississippi-63%
• Alabama-58%
• South Carolina-56%
• Louisiana-56%
• Utah-56%
• Tennessee-54%
• Arkansas-53%
• North Carolina-53%
• Georgia-51%
• Texas-50%

According to a list compiled by weather.com, these states have suffered the most natural disasters in the past 60 years (The number indicates the number of declared disasters):

• Texas-86
• California-78
• Oklahoma-74
• New York-67
• Florida-65
• Louisiana-60
• Alabama-57
• Kentucky-56
• Arkansas-54
• Missouri-53

A quick look at those three lists reveals that none of the least religious states, in terms of church attendance, are among the states with the most natural disasters, while four states (Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas) were in both the top ten of regular church attendance and the number of natural disasters. Also note that all of the states that have recorded the most natural disasters are southern, except for New York and California. Furthermore, a Pew Research study on religion in America reveals that 50 percent of southern church goers attend evangelical Christian churches, which is by far the highest concentration of evangelicals in the country.
What would be the reason that the Christian god repeatedly smites the more religious parts of the country with natural disasters, while leaving the apostates in the largely non-religious northeast and northwest virtually unscathed? Could god have decided that since the south was his “chosen land” that he would not stop raining disasters and pestilence upon them until every person repents? Or maybe its just that god’s wrath doesn’t have anything to do with disasters at all.