Religious Book Seller Struck Down by Lightning Hailu Kidane Marian was working with members of his religious group, selling religious materials door-to-door in a Northwest Miami-Dade neighborhood, when the bolt from the blue struck him down. “I heard a boom, and I looked and the guy jumped back, and he just laid there, stiff,” said witness Maria Martinez. Paramedics say Marian was not breathing and his heart was not beating when they arrived, but they were able to revive him and rushed him to Jackson Memorial hospital, where he was in critical condition Sunday night. Members of his religious group waited outside the hospital throughout the night for word of his condition. “He’s unconscious, he’s in a coma,” said Francisco Perez, leader of the Puerto Rico-based group. “It’s difficult what happened, you know, but what can we do? Things happen in life, but we still believe in God.” For analysis, see http://atheism.about.com/b/a/259256.htmOriginal article: http://cbs4.com/watercooler/watercooler_story_190140139.html
Things like this could make someone believe in god.
Zeus perhaps?
schadenfreude at it finest. I truly feel sorry for the victim, but the irony is so cool!
The irony of God’s lightning goes back to the 1700′s and the lightning rod. Follow the link for a telling of the story.
http://www.piney.com/Awwhitek04Rod.html
Definitely Zeus.
He’s on his comeback train, ya know.
Still warming up, or he would have killed the guy, or turned him into a goat.
Maybe this guy should consider a career change
leestein
Yeah.
He should go into meteorology.
GROANNNNNNNN Karen!!!
UUUGGGGHHHHHH
Karen and Jaecp,
Zeus? Naaahhh, Thor. Definitely Thor.
Of course they still believe in gawd and a little lightening isn’t going to change that!!!
But somebody tell me why–faithful though they are–that when lightening strikes a guy handing out gawd’s own material, or when a tornado takes down a church, or when members of a church group have their bus robbed and then one or more of them are nearly sucked away by a strong rip-tide (this evening’s news, Alabama coast, youth work mission), then WHY does it never cross any of their minds that their god is targeting THEM, the holy do-gooders?
And how can they always come up with the same old phrase: god was watching over me. I notice the ones who have died in whatever disaster never say that.
Sorry to see anyone struck by lightening. I narrowly escaped one myself. New Mexico is
one big lightening rod.
The believers will just say that gawd never gives the saved more than they can handle … in life or death.
God free&glad
these people are killed for a higher purpose that mortals cannot possibly understand.
my guess-target practice.
Thanks for clearing that up. Makes perfect sense.
GF&G Believers tend to pick and choose what they want to attribute to their benevolent invisible friend. Maybe someone else’s prayer was answered in this case. I often wondered if there is a prayer pecking order of sorts where someones prayer is more important that others. Kinda like I answer emails at work, some people get pushed to the bottom of the pile depending on how I feel. I like the Thor angle though.
anadrol
“if there is a prayer pecking order of sorts where someones prayer is more important that others. Kinda like I answer emails at work,”
Another spam from Phreedy. Next!
I am with Ren here, this seems to be the work of Thor. There are Thor worshipers today.
http://home.earthlink.net/~jordsvin/Asatru/Asatru%20Reborn.htm
A funny article about Zeus worshipers. Especially the response from a xian.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6283907.stm
“The president of the Association of Greek Clergymen, Father Efstathios Kollas, has described the followers of the Olympic gods as a handful of miserable resuscitators of a degenerate dead religion who wish to return to the monstrous dark delusions of the past.”
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
The Zeus guys have won recognition from the government.
“Peppa’s group, dedicated to reviving worship of the 12 ancient gods, was founded last year and won a court battle for official state recognition of the ancient Greek religion.
Those who seek to revive the ancient Greek religion are split into rival organizations which trade insults over the Internet. Peppa’s group is at odds with ultra-nationalists who view a revival as a way to protect Greek identity from foreign influences.
They can’t even agree on a name for the religion: One camp calls it Ancient-Religion, another Hellenic Religion.”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,245038,00.html
A longer article about the Greek pagan issue.
http://www.widdershins.org/vol10iss4/09.htm
One amusing quote,
“Even though the Orthodox Church discriminates against both evangelical Christians and pagans, the evangelicals have voiced their opposition to neopaganism in Greece. “Our greatest problem in Greece is that Greek society is totally secular, hedonistic and apathetic toward all things Christian,” says Fotis Romeos, general secretary of the Greek Evangelical Alliance.”
Paramedics say Marian was not breathing and his heart was not beating when they arrived, but they were able to revive him and rushed him to Jackson Memorial hospital, where he was in critical condition Sunday night.
Just waiting for the first fundy to praise The Lard for this life saving miracle, completely ignoring that fact that the Gawd who controls nature who “struck him down” but it was Paramedics who saved him.
Definitely Thor. The way he does it is by throwing this stone hammer of his around. Whenever it hits something, it makes a big spark and a loud noise. It was called a Stein.
The reason I know this is that my old school friend was named Thorsteinson. Just what sort of personality would earn a person the name of Thorstein, I’m not sure I want to know. Could have been dangerous to go drinking with.
He He He What,
No I think it would be more like,
Who is this guy? why won’t he leave me alone and why does he keep trying to sell me male enhancement aids?
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