Some theists superstitiously mythologize weather events, natural disasters, and other such occurrences, claiming that they are messages from their god. This video looks at one example of this odd practice, ie, the mythologizing of a tornado that hit the area where the Evangelical Lutheran Church in American was having its churchwide convention in Minneapolis on August 19, 2009. Apparently, there are people in the 21st century who have managed to convince themselves that a tornado in the American Midwest during a summer afternoon is a miraculous event. logosapologia has yet to approve my video response. Perhaps the facts and statistics set forth in it are just too much for him to deal with. Links: logosapologia's video: www.youtube.com And the boobs at Coral Ridge Ministries perpetuate the mythologizing of the tornado: www.youtube.com The website for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's ("ELCA") biennial churchwide assembly and a summary of the assembly's various actions: www.elca.org www.elca.org Article on the various tornadoes that hit around the American Midwest at or about the same time on August 19, 2009: www.usatoday.com The Minnesota Climatology Working Group's statistics on the occurrence of tornadoes in Minnesota: climate.umn.edu Video of the late Jerry Falwell (along with Pat Robertson) mythologizing the cause of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001: www.youtube.com Video of an Islamic cleric mythologizing various weather events and natural ...
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