Send Bibles to Hurricane Victims! Jesus will send loaves and fishes!

[Ian David]

PRAY HARD! JESUS WILL SEND YOU LOAVES AND FISHES AND TEACH YOU TO WALK ON WATER!

Oh, yes. When an "Act Of god" destroys my home and family, when I am without food and water, what I would want more than anything is a bible. "Now, let us read from The Book of Job..."

I bet they don't make any profit on these bibles, right???

They've already sent 300,000 bibles, supposedly.


Dear NewsMax Readers:

Please read an urgent message from The American Bible Society about the need for Bibles for the victims of Katrina and Rita.

Thank you.

NewsMax.com


Katrina survivors are asking, "Can you get me a Bible?"

At first it's water, food, shelter . . . but very quickly it becomes much more. The sense of loss begins to overwhelm people, and they look for hope and a future. Their thoughts turn to God and the Bible. They want comfort that goes beyond the moment, but their Bibles were lost in the storm.

The American Bible Society needs your help in answering the pleas of tens of thousands who are asking for Bibles to replace ones swept away.

Please help now by sending a generous gift that will replace a lost Bible for a Katrina survivor.

"God, who supplies seed for the sower and bread to eat, will also supply you with all the seed you need and will make it grow and produce a rich harvest from your generosity."
2 Cor. 9.10, GNT

More (including audio plea):
http://www.katrinabibles.org/?referrer=NM-EMAIL

[Lerkfish]

1. Bizarre.

that's all I have to say.

Certainly should not be the first impulse of those wanting to help.

[Ian David]

15. In fairness, a trusted friend says The Bible Society is pretty good

They provide cheap bibles to those in need at very little cost.

They subsidize themselves by also selling those expensive kids they keep in church pews.

She wasn't sure if they provide various versions for various denominations.

I suggested a better idea would be if they provided care packages with food, water and a bible in it. Perhaps they could send a bible along with a loaf of bread and a can of tuna fish?

My idea is to make care packages like that available to everyone of every denomination and religion.

Jewish bibles sent with matzos and gefilte fish, for example. Passover is coming up, after all.

[dretceterini]

2. Hey, Bibles are usefull !!

They can always tear them up and use them for toilet paper.

[Mabus]

13. Or, if get some floating rafters

tie them together for the frame you can then use the Bibles to build yourself an ark. :shrug:

[TrogL]

23. or for starting fires

[beam me up scottie]

3. If god can supply seed,

why can't he pay for the bibles?

[Book Lover]

4. Too bad they haven't expanded this program to a host of books

They should join up with bookcrossing.com or the like and get these folks other books as well.

[poppet]

11. Good idea

I lived in Louisiana for several years (just recently moved), and people were pretty religious there. If food and water and basic survival needs have been met, what is wrong with sending bibles? As I said, from my experience there, I believe there are probably many people who would like this. But, Like the pp wrote, I wouldn't limit it to bibles, but would send other books and things that allowed people to have a sense of normalcy.

I think some people in this post are being a bit harsh.

[Ian David]

18. Yeah, I think my own original reaction was a little harsh in retrospect

I am, after all, wrong 1/12 of the time.

I want to look into this group a little bit more and learn more about what they're like, before I go jumping down their throat like Jonah in the whale.

I think I would have done that before, except I was in a hurry and had to leave the house.

But now, I have to leave the house again in a hurry.

I hate leaving before I've done my homework.

[Ian David]

16. Moby Dick, Old Man and the Sea, 20,000 leagues Under the Sea...

Sorry, that's awful gallows humor.

[Book Lover]

22. Yes it is

Which did not prevent me from shamefully chuckling when I read your post. But seriously, people need more than bibles to slake their thirst for reading...

[Ian David]

24. The Complete Works of Isaac Asimov. That'll do it. n/t

[Book Lover]

25. Shoot, lash two sets together

and you have temporary housing right there! (Said with all love for the dear and prolific author... )

[BOSSHOG]

5. "Tens of thousands who are asking for bibles"

PROVE IT. And then the "SEND A GENEROUS GIFT caveat." Give us money in the name of Jesus Christ his own damn self. They need water and food and shelter and you ain't getting my money.

Christian Conservatives: "I've lost everything, Praise the Lord!"

[NAO]

6. God may be too busy watching sparrows and counting hairs

to take the time out to care for people who are drowning. Last big storm, well, rumor has it that HE sent it and then HE watched passively as all his children drowned but eight.

As Ingersoll points out:

"Of course God knew when he made man, that he would afterwards
regret it. He knew that the people would grow worse and worse until
destruction would be the only remedy. He knew that he would have to
kill all except Noah and his family, and it is hard to see why he
did not make Noah and his family in the first place, and leave Adam
and Eve in the original dust. He knew that they would be tempted,
that he would have to drive them out of the garden to keep them
from eating of the tree of life; that the whole thing would be a
failure; that Satan would defeat his plan; that he could not reform
the people; that his own sons would corrupt them, and that at last
he would have to drown them all except Noah and his family. Why was
the Garden of Eden planted? Why was the experiment made? Why were
Adam and Eve exposed to the seductive arts of the serpent? Why did
God wait until the cool of the day before looking after his
children? Why was he not on hand in the morning? Why did he fill
the world with his own children, knowing that he would have to
destroy them? And why does this same God tell me how to raise my
children when he had to drown his?"

"...According to Moses, God made up his mind not only to destroy
the people, but the beasts and the creeping things, and the fowls
of the air. What had creeping things, and the fowls of the air
done? What had the beasts, and the birds done to excite the anger
of God? Why did he repent having made them? Will some Christian
give us an explanation of this matter? No good man will inflict
unnecessary pain upon a beast; how then can we worship a god who
cares nothing for the agonies of the dumb creatures that he made?"

"Why did he make animals that he knew he would destroy? Does
God delight in causing pain? He had the power to make the beasts,
and fowls, and creeping things in his own good time and way, and it
is to be presumed that he made them according to his wish. Why
should he destroy them? They had committed no sin. They had eaten
no forbidden fruit, made no aprons, nor tried to reach the tree of
life. Yet this god, in blind unreasoning wrath destroyed "all flesh
wherein was the breath of life, and every living thing beneath the
sky, and every substance wherein was life that he had made."

from "Some Mistakes of Moses"
http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/some_mistakes_of_moses.html

[JNelson6563]

21. heh I love Ingersoll

He certainly left behind a treasure trove of wisdom.

:toast: Julie

[sam sarrha]

7. Better to send Ouija Boards to find out if FEMA is coming or not..

[GeorgeGist]

8. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

just curious why they don't ask God to replace their bibles?

[Vickers]

9. "Please help now by sending a generous gift"

:eyes:

Fucking tragedy-profiteers.

[Dogmudgeon]

10. Help! I need a copy of Dianetics! And the Dhammapada!

--p!

[Ian David]

19. What book would we send to Atheists?

I was thinking of "America: The Book" or perhaps, "Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos."

[Dogmudgeon]

26. One of Paine's works, perhaps, or Robert Ingersoll's

Sagan's writings are too expansive and don't really promote atheism per se. Dawkins is a well-known atheist, too, but he's better known as a biologist.

--p!

[cranston36]

12. Domino's Pizza Delivers

Domino’s is owned by a man by the named of Tom Monaghan.
He was raised in a Catholic orphanage.
He has been quoted as saying, “I was distracted by some of the rewards of success, which was hurting my business. I put all of these distractions aside, and focused solely on Domino’s Pizza. I decided to take a “millionaires vow of poverty.” I am focusing on God, family and Domino’s Pizza.”
Domino’s Farms is owned by Tom Monaghan. It doesn’t research science in order to cure diseases. It doesn’t look into alternative energy sources in order to break the back of corruption and greed in our world.
It is an office complex of huge proportions located in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Domino’s Farms Office Complex is located on Domino’s Farm.
Monaghan also owns the the Detroit Tigers.
He apparently gave George Bush undisclosed sums for his election. His Ave Maria Foundation donates heavily around the country.
Recently George Bush talked about teaching ‘Intelligent Design’ in public school classrooms.
A court case is opening over the decision of the Dover Area School District in south-central Pennsylvania to teach intelligent design. The ACLU is challenging their decision as a violation of church and state and just bad science.
The Thomas More Law Center is defending the school board.
Domino’s Farms and the Thomas More Law Center are located at : 24 Frank Lloyd Wright Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48106.
Why is a law firm in Michigan popping up in Pennsylvania?
Domino’s Pizza Delivers.

[Ian David]

27. Did I miss something? Is this connected to The Bible Society? n/t

[xxqqqzme]

14. I heard even B4 food 'n water

arrived, new bibles were delivered to and distributed @ the superdome. Anyone else hear this?

[liberalitch]

17. No but it doesn't surprise me.....

"repent..... try not to be so black and poor!"

[JNelson6563]

20. There's a sucker born every minute

and these folks are making the most of that opportunity. Why am I not surprised?

Julie

[bluedawg12]

28. LET THEM EAT BOOKS!

When wil people learn that God does not micromanage our world?

If you believe, then accept: God gave us brains to help ourselves.

Send the poor Bibles- give Hallitosisburton money.