Anyone see the fundie Miles O'Brien "interviewed" at the minetown church?

[Mika]

'God says that there's a time to live and a time to die.. it was their time to die.'

Miles let this delusional guy go on and on and on w/'god this and the god that'.

And CNN keeps replaying it. :puke:

Its on right now, again, 10:46am

[meegbear]

1. What God wants, God gets, God help us all.

I'm sure that's great comfort for all those affected by this. :wtf:

[Mika]

4. One minute they was praisin', next they was cussin' god..

.. what has god done fer us?

It is truly pathetic. Miles just let this strange guy go on and on.

[Al-CIAda]

12. Great CD that is (Roger Waters)

:thumbsup:

[Bill McBlueState]

2. no wonder

No wonder people increasingly don't want to have anything to do with that god.

[rodeodance]

3. cable stations are talking of the one miracle over and over.

[Dr.Phool]

18. What F'ing miracle?

All these guys are dead, and the last one's not out of the woods yet, and they call it a miracle?

This is one sick god.

[chelsea0011]

5. It's funny how it all works out in the end.

Anyone who is saved by tragedy was blessed by god on their side and anyone who dies has to accept it was god's plan. I laughed last week when some guy stood in front of his charred and completely destroyed house in Oklahoma and thanked god he was spared. This guy lost everything but his life and he thanks god, never questioning why god took everything from him in the first place. It's all god's plan, I guess.

[rkc3]

8. Putting it all in god's hand makes it easy to give up responsibility -

and makes for a fairly docile and obedient voting block as well.

[Skidmore]

6. Last night, Anderson Cooper was going all squishy and

spiritual during an interview with a niece of one of the miners while the search was still going on. It wasn't just interviewing to find the facts. It was very strange, you know, like the clunk of a dead piano key.

[Mika]

9. Every time I clicked on cable nooz I heard 'miracle this and miracle that'

Next, I was expecting a sighting of a virgin mary stain on a wall or plate glass window somewhere nearby.

[laruemtt]

7. i guess 'god' told the sako company

to commit all those infractions risking the miners' safety. that must be the god that told * to invade iraq. not my god.

[Mika]

11. It is proof of intelligent design. n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

14. God must be a real prick!

Why does he/she hate Bush's America?

[dean_dem]

32. Hey, you're right.

That only leaves one solution: invade Heaven. Wait, I'm sorry, "liberate" Heaven.

[Hubert Flottz]

33. Don't laugh, I think that comes after they own the world including

Boardvalk and Park Platz. Reagan and Nixon have probably got Hell so messed up by now, that we could "liberate" it too in two weeks, using all that money Hell makes selling it's oil to pay for the entire war, and the devils throw entire rose bushes at the liberators next time.

:scared: Helliburton can hardly wait.

Armageddon can't be far off now according to Jimmy Swagger and them other moneychangers he hangs out with.

When Jimmy "hangs out" it always stimulates the boom booming economy down in the local red light district, they say. :evilgrin:

[MrMonk]

10. I thought the man was eloquent

I'm not going to diss him for speaking according to his faith.

[Mika]

15. Not dissing him. Dissing CNN. His 'faith' isn't news.

Its just pure pandering and sensationalism. Especially repeating it several times this morning.

[FooFootheSnoo]

17. I agree

He was obviously very upset and in shock. I'm sure he wasn't in the right frame of mind to give a "rational" take on the situation. But, I do think the press has played up the "miracle" and "spiritual" part of the story a little too much.

[newyawker99]

28. Hi FooFootheSnoo!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[FooFootheSnoo]

34. Thank you newyawker!!!!

[Dr.Phool]

19. That's not faith. I complete total delusion.

[Beausoir]

20. So did I. I thought he was very sincere and heartbroken.

I felt very badly for him. He described what had happened in good detail.

What a horrific debacle.

[zbdent]

13. George Carlin once put it succinctly

"We're gonna round us up a posse and get this God guy . . . that's the third kid he's killed this month!"

[Hubert Flottz]

16. George Carlin for president in 08!

I'd vote for him in the twinkling of an eye!

[gratuitous]

21. Blaming God beats blaming the company

And CNN knows which side whereon their bread is buttered. So in the shocking aftermath of a horrible tragedy, the first words CNN wants to get on the air is a meaningless platitude ripped out of its context from the book of Ecclesiastes. The more serious among us, who would like to know why the mining company figured that paying $3,600 in fines for safety violations was more important than safeguarding the lives of its workers, is for another day. Another day far, far into the future. To be discussed far away from West Virginia or Kentucky by people who don't know anything about coal mining.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

22. Does CNN has links to the mining company?

or do you just mean corporate whores in general?

[gratuitous]

26. Corporate whores in general

I mean, you start wondering if one corporation is a bunch of heartless greedheads, more interested in squeezing an extra buck out of the operation than in making sure its workers are safe, and you know where that leads: Communism.

Thank God for CNN, heading off any lines of reportage that might lead to such nastiness, eh?

[Neecy]

35. exactly

I had MSNBC on last night, and there were bucketloads of God talk. I had to check my remote to make sure I wasn't watching the 700 Club.

All of this religion obscures the fact that it probably wasn't "God's will" kinda stuff that caused this tragedy, but the greed of the mining company. I'm sure General Electric preferred the God over greed mode of broadcasting and directed their minions accordingly (Rita Cosby was almost on her frikkin' knees - sickening).

[TahitiNut]

23. Blaming 'bad intelligence' and Gawd seems to be in style these days.

We've got 'bosses' that're so damned clueless and so many layers removed from having any personal hands-on experience that it's no wonder they resort to superstition and blame.

[stopbush]

24. God killed the miners. It's a miracle!

That is what he's saying, isn't it?

[TallahasseeGrannie]

25. Poor genetically challenged

working class loser. Telling the TV cameras his story and thinking it is important enough to broadcast. And bringing up God on national TV. Where's the separation of Church and State?

Delusional idiot.


Okay, sarcasm off.

I'm outta here. You guys make me want to throw up.


Moderators: tombstone me. I can't deal anymore.

[Sequoia]

27. Idiot.

As if that's going to help anyone feel any better. Crap. That mine was not safe.

[Critters2]

29. And people think Dems are hostile to people of faith.

Where do ya suppose they get that idea?

[QC]

30. Yeah, I don't get it either.

I guess somebody just made the whole thing up.

[Bluebear]

31. You spose it's too much to ask not to have sermonettes become news?

The tragedy is horrible. This man has a faith that comforts him, I am happy for him. Having said that, we do not nned to hear repetitions of Bible verses every twenty minutes and qualify it as 'news'. Just my .02