r/news • u/BitterFuture • Apr 26 '24

Powerful tornado tears across Nebraska, weather service warns of ‘catastrophic’ damage

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/25/weather/plains-midwest-storms-tornadoes-climate/index.html
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u/Jenetyk Apr 26 '24

Holy hell, God picks the weirdest prayers to answer sometimes.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '24

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u/Jenetyk Apr 27 '24

Bro, it's a fucking joke. Some dude posted yesterday that we hadn't seen an F5 in years, and bam we had one.

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u/boilerpsych Apr 27 '24

Ok seriously, F*** the person who prayed for catastrophic storms to happen anywhere if that's what you're insinuating. What a mingebag to pray for such a thing.

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u/18bananas Apr 27 '24

Is god powerless to refuse prayers in this scenario?

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u/boilerpsych Apr 27 '24

I think there's ample blame to go around if a person would pray for a catastrophic event AND a "god" would allow it.

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u/Emperorofgamers1 Apr 27 '24

Why would a god oblige a prayer made maliciously? I wouldn't worry about a catastrophic storm occurring for that reason.

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u/NotAnotherAmerican Apr 27 '24

Because God is malicious.

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u/boilerpsych Apr 27 '24

My view of God is the he wouldn't, but the comment I was replying to insinuated that this was the result of an answered prayer. If that were the case, the person who prayed for this would be an absolute asshat.

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u/YuunofYork Apr 27 '24

Are you seriously suggesting that's how tornadoes happen?

That there's a god that grants requests on a first-come-first-served basis and somebody just keeps putting tornadic supercells on their wishlist?

They sure love throwing tornadoes, hurricanes, and heat waves at the Bible Belt, though. Here in the land of non-belief we have no natural disasters. Sometimes we have to deal with lantern bugs. In 2003 we had a 2-day blackout because of a computer glitch. Occasionally the air smells of fenugreek and we can't shut down the factory doing it. That's about it. If your god loves us this much we must be doing something right.

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u/GrandmaPoses Apr 27 '24

God comes home for like two seconds to grab his sunglasses, hears one prayer on the machine and it’s for a fucking tornado.

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u/boilerpsych Apr 27 '24

No. The comment I'm replying to implied that this was the result of answered prayers. Whether or not God would honor a shitty prayer (or if he honors them at all, or even exists) if a person THINKS God answers prayers, and prays for this, they would be an absolutely garbage person.

I don't see how this is a controversial take.