Hey, over the last 20 or 30 years, you ever catch one of these people who goes out on TV

or you caught doing a sermon at some little local church and they're like, this horrible

natural tragedy that killed a whole bunch of people.

That's because some people out there vote for the wrong party and do these things.

I'm telling you, they're related and makes me sad to see it happen, but it's so just

so terrible.

That's the judgment of God.

In a sense, isn't anything that goes wrong just an indictment on the brokenness of humanity

and the mess that we've made together?

So, yeah, maybe there's that, but in general, tonally, that just feels like it's coming from

such a wrong-headed, weird, backwards place and how could that person know?

And I think one of the most natural pushbacks on those kind of sweeping pronouncements that

you get from time to time in modern, particularly, I think, evangelical thought.

One of the biggest pushbacks is just, how could you know?

How do you know the connection?

Who told you that?

Who revealed that to you or all the other things you say equally true?

If you claim that that was revealed by God, I think there's an appropriate level of pushback

and skepticism from both within the church and outside the church on those kinds of generalizations

and things that occasionally from the fringes you'll hear certain Christians say these days.

That said, those kinds of remarks and the right skepticism we feel toward them should

not be allowed to reflect back negatively on points in the Bible where that one plus

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