He's Coming to Get You!

I got some mail today from my favorite Christian Republican. It's a chain email about how God get's even with people for slighting Him. Here it is, my comments in RED.

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DID YOU KNOW THESE FACTS?

I SURE DIDN'T TILL NOW

Death is certain but the Bible speaks about untimely death!

Make a personal reflection about this.....

Very interesting, read until the end.....

It is written in the Bible (Galatians 6:7):

'Be not deceived; God is not mocked:

for whatsoever a man sow, that shall he also reap.

Yes, Galatians does say this but it says nothing about an "untimely death." It doesn't say that God's going to send a lightning bolt your way for mocking Him. In fact, I think if you read it, it says you "reap" what you sow. When would you read it? In the context of God and such, you would probably reap something when you die and go to the afterlife.

Here are some men and women who mocked God:

John Lennon (Singer):
Some years before, during his interview with an American Magazine, he said: 'Christianity will end, it will disappear. I do not have to argue about that. I am certain. Jesus was OK, but his subjects were too simple, today we are more famous than Him' (1966).

Lennon, after saying that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, was shot six times.

Uh, OK. I guess Lennon was show "after" he said that. But like 15 years later. So God sure can hold a grudge. And he hires hitmen!

Tancredo Neves (President of Brazil ):
During the Presidential campaign, he said if he got 500,000 votes from his party, not even God would remove him from Presidency.

Sure he got the votes, but he got sick a day before being made President, then he died.

I can't find any evidence that Neves in fact said this. But first, he wouldn't get 500,000 votes from his party because he wasn't elected by popular vote. He was elected by an electoral college of a few hundred people. So we know right away that there is something wrong with this. For sure though, after he died, the entire nation was upset and mourning. He was the first president chosen after a long military dictatorship. I guess God is not a fan of democracy.

Cazuza (Bi-sexual Brazilian composer, singer and poet):
During A show in Canecio ( Rio de Janeiro ), while smoking his cigarette, he puffed out some smoke into the air and said:'God, that's for you.'

He died at the age of 32 of LUNG CANCER in a horrible manner.
Here's another thing that's difficult to substantiate. Did he really say that? But even more important here is the fact that he didn't die of LUNG CANCER, he died of AIDS.

The man who built the Titanic:

After the construction of Titanic, a reporter asked him how safe the Titanic would be.. With an ironic tone he said: 'Not even God can sink it'

The result: I think you all know what happened to the Titanic

Again, no proof that the "man who built the Titantic" said this. You would think it would be easy to find considering he said it to a reporter. I did find something that said "an employee" of the company that ran RMS Titanic made this statement. So God is saying, "Ha, you think I can't sink that ship?! Watch this..." and 1,517 other people die. Who exactly is reaping what they sow here?

Marilyn Monroe (Actress):
She was visited by Billy Graham during a presentation of a show. He said the Spirit of God had sent him to preach to her.

After hearing what the Preacher had to say, she said: 'I don't need your Jesus.'

A week later, she was found dead in her apartment.

Again, I can't find where Monroe said this. But I guess it implies that God makes bad people take drugs?

Bon Scott (Singer):
The ex-vocalist of the AC/DC. On one of his 1979 songs he sang: 'Don't stop me; I'm going down all the way, down the highway to hell'.

On the 19th of February 1980, Bon Scott was found dead, he had been choked by his own vomit...

Again, God makes bad people take drugs? Bon Scott was drunk off his a$$ and choked on his vomit. And what about the rest of AC/DC? Angus and Malcom also wrote the song. What about the people who bought and liked the album?.

Campinas (IN 2005):
In Campinas, Brazil a group of friends, drunk, went to pick up a friend......

The mother accompanied her to the car and was so worried about the drunkenness of her friends and she said to the daughter holding her hand, who was already seated in the car: 'My Daughter, Go With God And May He Protect You.'

She responded: 'Only If He (God) Travels In The Trunk, Cause Inside Here.....It's Already Full.'

Hours later, news came by that they had been involved in a fatal accident, everyone had died, the car could not be recognized what type of car it had been, but surprisingly, the trunk was intact. The police said there was no way the trunk could have remained intact. To their surprise, inside the trunk was a crate of eggs, none was broken.

This is a good story. Again, there is absolutely no evidence for it. In case you haven't noticed a theme here yet, most of these things come from Latin America, a very religious area where they also believe in all sorts of mysticsm and weird things. What were they doing with eggs in the trunk anyway? Shouldn't they be refridgerated?

Christine Hewitt (Jamaican Journalist and entertainer):
Said the Bible (Word of God) was the worst book ever written.

In June 2006 she was found burnt beyond recognition in her motor vehicle.

Again, God is hiring hitmen, this time Jamaican criminals, to carry out his dirty work. Hewitt was killed by a bunch of thugs, likely because she was about ready to expose some bad thing they were doing to the public.

Many more important people have forgotten that there is no other name that was given so much authority as the name of Jesus.

Many have died, but only Jesus died and rose again, and he is still alive.

Uh no, there are all sorts of stories throughout history of ancient sages dying only to rise again. This is not unique.