Yes the floods in Victoria have attracted the attention of the Catch The Fire Ministries like flies to stinking dung looking for opportunities for beastly propagation. In this post the glorious Pastor Dan issues an urgent call for lots of people to matter a lot of words. The omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent god who apparently can save the situation at a blink and has known about this upcoming flood since the beginning of time will be impressed by enough people chanting and prostrating themselves. Not to wory our heroic Pastor Dan is on the case. "Once again would you please prayerfully petition Heaven’s throne room and ask the Lord to stop the river from reaching its peak as predicted." Yes it apparently worked to halt the Brisbane flood from reaching its predicted peak so what was good for the Brisbane River must also be good for the River Murray.
This supposes that the wide margin of error with even modern day forecasting and the inexact nature of the science is not a simpler and easier explanation for the Brisbane flood not acheiving its predicted peak. The good pastor uses the fallibility of human knowledge about the natural environment as evidence of a god at work. No Ockam's Rzaor for Pastor Dan and the good people at the Catch The Fire Ministries. No chance at good analysis of observed events to verify or falsify a god hypothesis. If a god can be made to be understandable then it was God. If not then we can still see the hand of God, no matter what is observed.
Under the entry for unfalsifiable in the dictionary there should be a mention of CTFM as an ongoing example.
Other items in his post is a prayer for Australia Day. Patriotism and religiosity seem to fit neatly together. And yes they are close to settling the purchase of a property for $580,000 secured with a loan for $280,000 for their big church. The CTFM will need $1.2 million to finish the project. Hint hint. Cough up. We need your money, lots of it. God apparently doesn't come cheap.
If you want to cough up to help realise the vision for a god with what seem like Champaign tastes you can click here and give give give to the omnipotent god who should in theory not need anything from anyone.
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