Bored with dull sanity? Here’s a roundup of blogs that defy parody, with the organising motif of “Thanking God.” I haven’t linked but you can disentangle the crap from the urls if you really want to see them. As far as I can make out they aren’t parody sites although that is your first assumption. I hope I can be corrected on at least one of these.<\/p>\n

I was planning a list of sporting events and movie award wins where the contenders credited him upstairs (subtly boasting of being God’s favourite). Sadly, Google is strangely reticent on this topic although I found some good rants on the practice<\/a>. In fact, most of the “god-thankers” were just expressing a generalised sense of gratitude to the universe for new linux functions, ffs. <\/p>\n

But, as a consolation, I found these sites that thanked the big guy for “gifts” that the rational mind might imagine could best be described as “curses”.<\/p>\n

First off. How about “Thank god for global warming<\/a>.” It has basically one article and most of its categories and posts point to this. The argument is that global warming is just a con to make us pay more taxes and to extend the role of government. At least that’s a point of view, albeit one that has never felt the chilling edge of Occam’s Razor. The rest, such as “what if the human race disappeared, the planet would still warm” is just arrant nonsense.<\/p>\n

The next one sort of fits in with my original idea, except that it doesn’t have losers so I’m going to leave the link. Godwin’s Fitness Club testimonials page. <\/a> Godwin’s seems to be a gym with a ministry attached or vice versa. Everyone here thanks God for their improved muscle tone.<\/p>\n

The Politics of the Cross<\/a> gets in just because it explains that it has problems thanking god for Canada, on the grounds that<\/p>\n

” our government … is becoming more and more pagan all the time. Moreover, we are to bear in mind that government can as easily be a vehicle of the Antichrist as a blessing (cf. Rev. 13).”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have to credit Anne Coulter Watch<\/a> with reporting that the deeply-unpleasant-one believed that God supported the extermination of the native population of America:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Thank God the white man did win or we would not have the sort of equality and freedom, or life, that we have now.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Last, but the clear winner on any scale of evil dementedness is, naturally, the Westboro Baptists<\/a>. On their charmingly-named “God Hates Fags” site, they are kind enough to thank God for the London Tube bombings.<\/p>\n

Thank God for the bombing of London’s subway today – July 7, 2005 – wherein dozens were killed and hundreds seriously injured. Wish it was many more.
\n“But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord their God, nor receiveth correction; truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.” Jer. 7:28.
\nEngland: Island of the Sodomite Damned<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, that is probably small beer to you Americans, compared to Hurricane Katrina and the deaths of countless US servicemen, for which they also thank their deeply unpleasant deity.<\/p>\n

I notice there is a section on their site called “Love Crusades<\/em>.” It’s a list of the upcoming funerals of US servicemen that they are going to picket. Now even the most hard-hearted TV fake-childcare expert might think was a step too far in the “tough love” direction.<\/p>\n

I truly hope their god loves them with the same fervour that they love servicemen and the population of London or New Orleans.<\/p>\n

Share this:<\/h3>

• <\/span>Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li>
• <\/span>Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li>
• More<\/span><\/a><\/li>
• <\/li><\/ul>
  • <\/span>Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li>
  • <\/span>Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li>
  • <\/li>
  • <\/span>Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li>
  • <\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Bored with dull sanity? Here’s a roundup of blogs that defy parody, with the organising motif of “Thanking God.” I haven’t linked but you can disentangle the crap from the urls if you really want to see them. As far … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    Share this:<\/h3>

    • <\/span>Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li>
    • <\/span>Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li>
    • More<\/span><\/a><\/li>
    • <\/li><\/ul>
      • <\/span>Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li>
      • <\/span>Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li>
      • <\/li>
      • <\/span>Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li>
      • <\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[5,3,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnUcF-l2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whydontyou.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whydontyou.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whydontyou.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whydontyou.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whydontyou.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.whydontyou.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whydontyou.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whydontyou.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whydontyou.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}