Dave Brat's "miracle" GOP primary win

[revdave]

1) Underdog Republican challenger Dave Brat wasted no time Tuesday night in stating that his upset primary win over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was "A miracle from God".  This insinuates that God changed the minds of voters who were for Cantor and/or prompted people to vote who were leaning towards Brat but weren't motivated to make the effort to go the polls.  So, here we go again with a politician who believes his success is the will of a deity.  No matter what policies this guy comes up with if he wins in November and goes to Congress--ideas that I might agree with in some instances--his religious statement will forever force me to regard him with suspicion.

Why would you assume that? Surely the most logical explanation is that God conjured a whole bunch of extra ballots into the ballot boxes, and then marked off their names on the voters list with his magic pen.

If this vote was done electronically it's even easier to explain. God is the ghost in the machine.

2) We hear time and again from the religious community that god doesn't intervene to prevent evil from occuring because free will for humankind means so much to him.  Per Professor Brat's statement above, an apparent exception can be made by God when an evangelical Tea Party candidate needs help at the polls.  I note that the very same day this week that Brat won his primary with the help of God, a 14 year-old high-school student was shot and killed in a school shooting in Oregon.  I can't understand the mindset of people who would celebrate a deity that would intervene to change the mindset of voters in Virginia, but not a 15 year-old gunman in Oregon. 

Unfortunately God was too busy rigging elections to stop the murders. He can only be in infinite places at one time. Give the poor guy a break.

One fit of over-excitement 6000 years ago and now he's stuck with about a trillion galaxies more than the original plan called for. That he spares us any time at all with such a workload shows us how much he loves us. A deity must prioritize!

[Jason Harvestdancer]

I wonder what would happen on this board if (a) there was a major upset in a Democrat primary and (b) the underdog Democrat thanked God for the victory.

[Hijiri Byakuren]

I wonder what would happen on this board if (a) there was a major upset in a Democrat primary and (b) the underdog Democrat thanked God for the victory.

I would sigh and say "not this shit again." Although that's more because I hate both parties and only vote Libertarian.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Fuck these libertarian rants.. Fuck, you gotta drag this shit into everything and pretend you're not rubes.

[PringleTree]

I wonder what would happen on this board if (a) there was a major upset in a Democrat primary and (b) the underdog Democrat thanked God for the victory.

Wouldn't matter to me--I would have started this thread just the same no matter what the party affiliation.

[Hakurei Reimu]

I wonder what would happen on this board if (a) there was a major upset in a Democrat primary and (b) the underdog Democrat thanked God for the victory.

If that incumbent was a major dickhead like Cantor, and the underdog was from a Democratic faction known to be a bunch of douchebags, I would have much the same reaction: "Meh."

[Jason Harvestdancer]

That must be the right question, it got so many people angry.

[Poison Tree]

That must be the right question, it got so many people angry.

APA=so many?