Woman hit by lightning while praying.

DaChew · 31st May 2006, 01:02 PM

Guess the answer was "no"?

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/9293414/detail.html

"She said 'Amen' and the room was engulfed in a huge ball of fire. The 65-year-old Brown said she is blessed to be alive."

Uh....OK.

CP489 · 31st May 2006, 03:09 PM

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12467604/?GT1=7938

Just like the above story, sad. Sadder still that some try to rationalize such events to fit their worldview.

Dustin Kesselberg · 31st May 2006, 10:08 PM

She's praying to her God and is struck down by lightning and is "blessed to live"...Hmmm!

You can't make this stuff up!

BobK · 31st May 2006, 10:47 PM

She must have nagged him once to often.

CP489 · 31st May 2006, 11:00 PM

I posted this link on another board I visit and the reply I got was "Otherwise unharmed, maybe it was God's way of telling her he was listening."

DarkMagician · 1st June 2006, 01:02 AM

Oh come on, tell me honestly you haven't at least chuckled at this predicament.

Darat · 1st June 2006, 01:45 AM

Yahzi has another thread discussing this: http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=57721

andyandy · 1st June 2006, 02:00 AM

gotta say i love these "devout christian/muslim/rastafarian/zoroastrianism * struck by lightning stories......"

makes me almost wanna believe in god.....

*delete as appropriate

daredelvis · 1st June 2006, 06:17 AM

"But what if we are praying to the wrong God. Every time we go to church we're just makin him madder and madder" - Homer Simpson

I guess now we know,
Daredelvis

31st May 2006, 01:02 PM	#1
DaChew Graduate Poster Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 1,043	Woman hit by lightning while praying. Guess the answer was "no"? http://www.wsbtv.com/news/9293414/detail.html "She said 'Amen' and the room was engulfed in a huge ball of fire. The 65-year-old Brown said she is blessed to be alive." Uh....OK.
DaChew Graduate Poster Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 1,043	__________________ I'm not as smart as I think I am. Most people aren't. Except me. Because I know I'm not.

31st May 2006, 03:09 PM	#2
CP489 Critical Thinker Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 323	http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12467604/?GT1=7938 Just like the above story, sad. Sadder still that some try to rationalize such events to fit their worldview.
CP489 Critical Thinker Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 323	__________________ "Those who would give up essential liberty in exchange for temporary security deserve neither, and will lose both." Benjamin Franklin "Faith is when you believe something that nobody in his right mind would believe." Victor Stenger "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution" Theodosius Dobzhansky

31st May 2006, 10:47 PM	#4
BobK Muse Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: State of confusion Posts: 913	She must have nagged him once to often.
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31st May 2006, 11:00 PM	#5
CP489 Critical Thinker Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 323	I posted this link on another board I visit and the reply I got was "Otherwise unharmed, maybe it was God's way of telling her he was listening."
CP489 Critical Thinker Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 323	__________________ "Those who would give up essential liberty in exchange for temporary security deserve neither, and will lose both." Benjamin Franklin "Faith is when you believe something that nobody in his right mind would believe." Victor Stenger "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution" Theodosius Dobzhansky

1st June 2006, 01:02 AM	#6
DarkMagician Graduate Poster Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Des Moines, IA Posts: 1,539	Oh come on, tell me honestly you haven't at least chuckled at this predicament.
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31st May 2006, 10:08 PM	#3
Dustin Kesselberg Usus magister est optimus Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Al Jumahiriyah al Arabiyah al Libiyah ash Shabiyah al Ishtirakiyah al Uzma Posts: 4,673	She's praying to her God and is struck down by lightning and is "blessed to live"...Hmmm! You can't make this stuff up!

1st June 2006, 01:45 AM	#7
Darat Lackey Administrator / JREF Forum Liaison Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: South East, UK Posts: 64,804	Yahzi has another thread discussing this: http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=57721
	__________________ If it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918-2008

1st June 2006, 02:00 AM	#8
andyandy anthropomorphic ape Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: up a tree Posts: 8,193	gotta say i love these "devout christian/muslim/rastafarian/zoroastrianism * struck by lightning stories......" makes me almost wanna believe in god..... *delete as appropriate
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1st June 2006, 06:17 AM	#9
daredelvis Graduate Poster Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Houston Posts: 1,876	"But what if we are praying to the wrong God. Every time we go to church we're just makin him madder and madder" - Homer Simpson I guess now we know, Daredelvis