IRAN: Top cleric reiterates claim that piety prevents earthquakes

[mota bhai 2,675]

Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati might have thought he was clarifying remarks by his colleague, the cleric Kazem Sedighi, who suggested in a Friday prayer sermon a week ago that women who dress immodestly cause earthquakes by angering God.

Instead Jannati, who delivered the nation's keynote sermon in the Iranian capital this Friday, reiterated the claim that human behavior causes -- and can also prevent -- earthquakes.

He told worshipers on Friday that while science cannot yet predict earthquakes, they can be spiritually prevented by repentance and prayer.

"We can avoid earthquakes if the faithful and devoted people pray to God," Jannati said during the Friday sermon.

Sedighi spawned headlines worldwide when he preached last week that young women who dress provocatively corrupt men and drive them to adultery, incurring God's wrath in the form of earthquakes.

The story went viral online and Sedighi has since become a subject of international mockery.

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Sedighi and Jannati are hardly the first religious figures to blame natural disasters on the sins of man. As the Los Angeles Times pointed out in an editorial Friday, American evangelical Christian Pat Robertson claimed that 2005's Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for legalizing abortion and that the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti was a result of a pact with Satan.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/04/iran-top-cleric-reiterates-piety-prevents-earthquakes.html

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati might have thought he was clarifying remarks by his colleague, the cleric Kazem Sedighi, who suggested in a Friday prayer sermon a week ago that women who dress immodestly cause earthquakes by angering God.

Instead Jannati, who delivered the nation's keynote sermon in the Iranian capital this Friday, reiterated the claim that human behavior causes -- and can also prevent -- earthquakes.

He told worshipers on Friday that while science cannot yet predict earthquakes, they can be spiritually prevented by repentance and prayer.

"We can avoid earthquakes if the faithful and devoted people pray to God," Jannati said during the Friday sermon.

Sedighi spawned headlines worldwide when he preached last week that young women who dress provocatively corrupt men and drive them to adultery, incurring God's wrath in the form of earthquakes.

The story went viral online and Sedighi has since become a subject of international mockery.

...

Sedighi and Jannati are hardly the first religious figures to blame natural disasters on the sins of man. As the Los Angeles Times pointed out in an editorial Friday, American evangelical Christian Pat Robertson claimed that 2005's Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for legalizing abortion and that the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti was a result of a pact with Satan.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/04/iran-top-cleric-reiterates-piety-prevents-earthquakes.html

If there is a hell this morons will reside on the Pat Robinson wing of it , dedicated to moronic ramblings of stupid religious zealots.

If there is a hell this morons will reside on the Pat Robinson wing of it , dedicated to moronic ramblings of stupid religious zealots. I am sure ol Pat was all with them on this.

[mota bhai 2,675]

So even in hell, wings are named after white guys?

#######.

[GandD 5,966]

So even in hell, wings are named after white guys?

#######.

No doubt most of the world would not be shocked that white people have majority control of hell.

[Darnell 8,478]

young women who dress provocatively corrupt men and drive them to adultery

Great - next you'll tell me there's an online catalog where I can order up whoever I want for the weekend.

Come on, tis time for corrupting !

[GandD 5,966]

young women who dress provocatively corrupt men and drive them to adultery

You think this explanation would work with my wife?

[mota bhai 2,675]

You think this explanation would work with my wife?

I don't know, dude. Ask your imam, maybe?

[duraaraa 203]

I really hate it how God keeps doing these acts of terror. We should send troops to heaven to take him out, and restore the sexual freedom of people in the middle east.

He's already proven he's not afraid to use weapons of mass destruction.

Edited May 3, 2013 by duraaraa

[Darnell 8,478]

You think this explanation would work with my wife?

Of course ! But it must be your Imam that explains this to her, and not you.

Apparently if you explain it, in this fashion, she's gonna castrate you and keep the pods ...

One of my ex biz partners in Guangzhou was complaining to his wife one day, saying, "I Wish we lived in the China from 100 years ago". I never asked him about this, but 3 days later, she's at my house helping me set up for the weekend MahJong game, and she explains what he meant.

See, in China, 100 years ago, was perfectly acceptable to have as many wives as one could afford, simultaneously.

So, talk with your wife again, ask her about her ancestral family rules about where the 2nd wife sleeps, and report back, aye?

Edited May 3, 2013 by Darnell

[himher 634]

Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati might have thought he was clarifying remarks by his colleague, the cleric Kazem Sedighi, who suggested in a Friday prayer sermon a week ago that women who dress immodestly cause earthquakes by angering God.

Instead Jannati, who delivered the nation's keynote sermon in the Iranian capital this Friday, reiterated the claim that human behavior causes -- and can also prevent -- earthquakes.

He told worshipers on Friday that while science cannot yet predict earthquakes, they can be spiritually prevented by repentance and prayer.

"We can avoid earthquakes if the faithful and devoted people pray to God," Jannati said during the Friday sermon.

Sedighi spawned headlines worldwide when he preached last week that young women who dress provocatively corrupt men and drive them to adultery, incurring God's wrath in the form of earthquakes.

The story went viral online and Sedighi has since become a subject of international mockery.

...

Sedighi and Jannati are hardly the first religious figures to blame natural disasters on the sins of man. As the Los Angeles Times pointed out in an editorial Friday, American evangelical Christian Pat Robertson claimed that 2005's Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for legalizing abortion and that the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti was a result of a pact with Satan.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/04/iran-top-cleric-reiterates-piety-prevents-earthquakes.html

Explain's California's problems. It's all clear now.

[james&olya 1,121]

One of my ex biz partners in Guangzhou was complaining to his wife one day, saying, "I Wish we lived in the China from 100 years ago". I never asked him about this, but 3 days later, she's at my house helping me set up for the weekend MahJong game, and she explains what he meant.

See, in China, 100 years ago, was perfectly acceptable to have as many wives as one could afford, simultaneously.

If you applied those rules here it might leave a lot of guys with only a limited share in a wife!!

[Darnell 8,478]

Wow - you flipped the gender roles?

OK - 'splain yerself?

Ah ! Eureka ! Never Mind - I had a lightening bolt moment - I agree ! The math sucks !

Edited May 4, 2013 by Darnell