{"id":6662,"date":"2012-03-06T23:09:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T04:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=6662"},"modified":"2012-03-06T23:09:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T04:09:24","slug":"which-is-the-more-likely-cause-of-tornados-god-natural-phenomena-or-pastors-full-of-hot-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/03\/which-is-the-more-likely-cause-of-tornados-god-natural-phenomena-or-pastors-full-of-hot-air.html","title":{"rendered":"Which is the more likely cause of tornados – God, natural phenomena, or pastors full of hot air?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

A lot of people are responding to comments by people such as Pat Robertson and John Piper about recent tornados causing devastation in Indiana and elsewhere<\/a>. Many are atheist and similar blogs, such as Hemant Mehta<\/a>, A God-Sized Puzzle<\/a>, Atheist Revolution<\/a> and Skeptic<\/a>. Fortunately some Christian blogs, such as Matthew Paul Turner<\/a>, Internet Monk<\/a>, and Bo Sanders<\/a> offer criticisms of these folks from a Christian perspective, so that it does not seem like merely outsiders who criticize the theological devastation caused by these out of control whirlwinds of pastoral hot air.<\/p>\n

When people like Pat Robertson say things like this (getting so close, recognizing meteorological causes, then blaming it on among other things a lack of storm-stilling faith)\u2026<\/p>\n