If Ebola Is A Response From God.........

[stromboli]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/08/06/god-is-angry-with-liberia-ebola-is-a-plague/

Amid the reports emerging out of Liberia, it’s difficult to discern what is true and what isn’t. But the fear they carry is undeniable: Fear of the disease, fear of dead bodies, fear that God himself has sent down a terrible plague to blight the people of Liberia for their transgressions.

There are local reports that “armed men” are allegedly trying to poison wells “to kill in the name of Ebola.” There are reports that the government is dumping bodies by the truckload at a mass grave on the west bank of a river and nearby residents fret over water contamination. And there are Reuters reports of bodies lying in the streets of Liberia’s capital Monrovia for days.

killed 887 in West Africa including 255 in Liberia â€" has terrified people so much that some local leaders discern divine meaning in it. According to Front Page Africa and the Daily Observer, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf called on Tuesday for all residents to fast for three days and pray for forgiveness.

“Relying on His divine guidance for our survival as a nation,” she announced, “I call on all Liberians to observe three days of national fast and prayer to seek God’s face to have mercy on us and forgive our sins and heal our land, Liberia, as we continue to fight against the deadly Ebola virus.”

That followed a recent recommendation by the Liberian Council of Churches, which said in a statement last week the outbreak has Biblical implications. “God is angry with Liberia,” the religious leaders said, according to the Daily Observer. “Ebola is a plague. Liberians have to pray and seek God’s forgiveness over the corruption and immoral acts (such as homosexualism, etc.) that continue to penetrate our society. As Christians, we must repent and seek God’s forgiveness.”


The statement then urged people to stay home. But while it would seem an intuitive method of controlling the disease, the act of staying put, according to Reuters, can mean medical workers and patients fail to show up at clinics, frustrating overtaxed government agencies with few resources to combat what’s now a full-blown pandemic. Many Liberians remain deeply distrustful of Western medicine, and don’t want to go to the hospital if they start feeling unwell, reported Reuters’s Clair MacDougall and Daniel Flynn.

Some sick villagers in Paynesville outside Monrovia, for instance, forbid government aid workers entry to their house, the Daily Observer reported. “Family members there refused to talk to them,” one villager said. “They even claimed that the team was there because they wanted to remove the kidneys of [the sick] if they followed the team to a nearby health facility for testing.”

As a result of such misgivings, the bodies are piling up in Monrovia: in the rivers, in front of houses, in streets. As seen in video captured by France 24, one suspected Ebola victim died underneath a tree, on top of stones, in a red skirt. Concerned neighbors viewed her corpse from afar as health workers draped her in a white sheet.

Two more bodies, cloaked in white body bags, bobbed in a city lake off a main thoroughfare, according to a lengthy Front Page Africa report. Motorists said they contacted the health ministry, but no one showed up, so the bodies remained in the lake, floating. “There are dead bodies all over the place and they now know that it’s real,” Agence France-Presse recently quoted the Liberian president saying. “This is very, very serious; it’s very nearing a catastrophe.”

In another section of Monrovia, Reuters reported, two men who had shown symptoms of Ebola died in the streets â€" and then lay there undisturbed for four days before government workers picked them up. “They both gave up and dropped dead on the ground on the street of Clara Town,” one resident told the news organization.

Other relatives of the dead were seen dragging corpses onto the street and leaving them there. “They are therefore removing the bodies from their homes and are putting them out in the street,” Information Minister Lewis Brown told Reuters. “They’re exposing themselves to the risk of being contaminated. We’re asking people to please leave the bodies in their homes and we’ll pick them up.”

The issue of what to do with the bodies, once collected, has confounded local officials who have struggled with whether to cremate them or bury them â€" and where. Few communities want to take the bodies, according to the Daily Observer. One man told the paper that bodies had been disposed of on his private land.

“I’m not asking them to pay me for my land,” he told the paper. “I’m going to take the authorities to task for illegally using my land to bury dead bodies.”

Fact: 85.5% of Liberia is Christian. A higher percentage than the US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Liberia

The biggest killer in the US is heart disease. The highest rate of death is in the Bible Belt.

This is as great an example of catastrophe caused by religious stupidity as you could ask for. fear and superstition will fuel the outcome, which is not looking good. Shades of the Black Plague in the Middle Ages.

[Solitary]

I just knew this was coming.  It's their ignorance that's causing it to spread, not some invisible spirit in the sky. God must love idiots, because He sure has made a lot of them. 

[stromboli]

I just knew this was coming.  It's their ignorance that's causing it to spread, not some invisible spirit in the sky. God must love idiots, because He sure has made a lot of them. 

Yeah, no shit. Stupidity has fueled catastrophes for millennia.

[PickelledEggs]

It's the rapture. They are ascending to heaven.

Sent from your mom

[Hijiri Byakuren]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkCwFkOZoOY

[SGOS]

It was just a matter of time before the hand of God was seen in this disaster.

[stromboli]

And when they come up with a cure, millions will praise god for his mercy.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Sounds suspicious.. I think I saw this movie.. The volunteer fire department member goes around town lighting buildings on fire, but is always the 'first responder' on the scene to play the role of hero fireman.  We need Joe Friday to investigate..

[DunkleSeele]

It was just a matter of time before the hand of God was seen in this disaster.

And, of course, it's all the fault of them gayz:

Liberians have to pray and seek God’s forgiveness over the corruption and immoral acts (such as homosexualism, etc.) that continue to penetrate our society.

We had the gaynados, now we have gaybola... 

[Wallace1688]

12:20:09) Wallace1688: There is no doubt in my mind that this is a catastrophe​, but we cannot blame God for it. Do we not know that the suffering of the innocent is often a mystery?

(12:26:16) Wallace1688: Perhaps, it is a good thing there is a call for prayer. If I discovered that every human help was weak and possibly in vain do you think I would keep on looking in that direction for help? No, I would look up to where my help comes from - God - the maker of the Universe. Surely, if He has the power to make such wonders I am sure He would be able to help me in my time of need. Just as there are critques of the call for prayer one should look in the mirror and ask why you should be so angry? It is no good being continuousl​y angry with the One who loves and cares for mankind when He longs to help you in the time of your trouble. Just as I do not know the cause of Ebola (neither does anyone else) I do know God is a healer (proved it myself) and can heal people of every disease. You should try Him.

[stromboli]

We like facts, not claims.

[josephpalazzo]

12:20:09) Wallace1688: There is no doubt in my mind that this is a catastrophe​, but we cannot blame God for it. Do we not know that the suffering of the innocent is often a mystery?

(12:26:16) Wallace1688: Perhaps, it is a good thing there is a call for prayer. If I discovered that every human help was weak and possibly in vain do you think I would keep on looking in that direction for help? No, I would look up to where my help comes from - God - the maker of the Universe. Surely, if He has the power to make such wonders I am sure He would be able to help me in my time of need. Just as there are critques of the call for prayer one should look in the mirror and ask why you should be so angry? It is no good being continuousl​y angry with the One who loves and cares for mankind when He longs to help you in the time of your trouble. Just as I do not know the cause of Ebola (neither does anyone else) I do know God is a healer (proved it myself) and can heal people of every disease. You should try Him.

Mickey Mouse also loves you, but he ain't going to save you. There are more than 4000 deaths so far, and if unchecked, the death count will be over ONE MILLION by January. Where's your God? Oh wait, he acts in mysterious ways... LOL, what a fucking moron you are.

[stromboli]

A. Faith healing doesn't work, it never has. Neither does prayer.

B. If faith healing did work, why isn't there an army of faith healers in Liberia and Sierra Leone healing people?

C. Liberia has a population that is 85% Christian vs 80% in the US. What are they being punished for?

Or maybe it is because a backward, illiterate and superstitious population has a very poor infrastructure and health system because people believe in miracles instead of relying on science and medicine, which do the actual healing.

Oh and btw Wallace, you are lusting after my avatar right now, aren't you?

[Munch]

I see Wallace has made himself known.

[Green Bottle]

  Quote''      I do know God is a healer (proved it myself)

Well produce this proof,
or your Just another sad brainwashed bullshitter....