Enough Burning Bushes For You Now?

Well, are there enough burning bushes for you now? While CNN, Fox News, etc. cannot get enough of the wildfire coverage, cramming every headline and inch of the “crawler” with news about the conflagration, there seems to be one story missing from all of this: The God Factor.

Now, just because, in May, Jerry Falwell found out he’d been wrong his whole life, that shouldn’t stop all of the other televangelists from telling us how wrong we’ve all been.

But where are they all? It doesn’t seem too long ago that preachers were clamoring to tell us how 9/11 and the tsunamis in Indonesia were sure signs of divine revenge. And fire seems to be the most "godly" of all the symbols. After all, nowhere in the Bible does God appear as an airplane, or a huge wave. However, God does make his Act II debut as a burning bush, to Moses.

I mean, come on, this stuff is obvious. And further, isn't Southern California, a bastion of liberalism, supposed to be one of the most sinful places in the entire world?

I think, at some point, we have to realize that everything, yes everything, can be interpreted, or construed, as some sort of divine symbol. If you view God as the sole cause of everything, then yes, God caused the fires in California. However, that would mean that the same God also killed two women who were on their way to church.

Maybe we’re not hearing anything from the televangelists this time since it’s their studio and network heads who are getting “punished.” It's probably not the best strategy to tell the guy who gives you your paycheck that God is taking revenge on him. Maybe the televangelists are thinking twice before telling their Hollywood financiers that everything they're doing in life (and that includes paying you), is wrong.