Last evening, my Preacher, a great man of God, posted the following on his Facebook Wall:

Strongest earthquake in 100 years in D.C. Only days later, the strongest storm threat coming in 2 decades. I hope by the time the locusts and plagues show up that somebody in the capital realizes that God may be a little ticked off.

This morning, I surfed over to drudgereport.com to find inspiration for today’s post. The main picture shows Hurricane Irene’s path, hugging America’s East Coast, straight up through Martha’s Vineyard, where President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) and his family are still vacationing. The headlines associated with this story read:

STORM ALERT: FROM DC TO BOSTON…

NYC BRACES FOR DIRECT HIT…

EVACS POSSIBLE…

STATE OF EMERGENCY…

NAVY MOVES SHIPS…

FLIGHTS CANCELED, UP AND DOWN…

National Cathedral to be blocked off pre-Irene…

On top of all that, they’ve been forced to indefinitely postpone the dedication ceremony for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, scheduled for this weekend.

So, I said to myself:

Self, what in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is a’goin’ on here?

If all of this is God trying to get our attention, why is he ticked off?

Could it be, that as His Word tells us, he is a jealous God?

Deuteronomy 5:9

You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

John Adams, our 2nd President, from 1797-1801, wrote:

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

In America, in the year of Our Lord, 2011:

92% of Americans believe in God.

75% of Americans self-identify as Christians.

Only 2 % of  Americans are Muslim.

Therefore, if 92% of Americans believe in God, it stands to reason that only 8 % of us do not.  If you surf the web or your TV channels, you would think that Atheism is practiced by the majority of our citizens.

And, if you listen to the President of the United States, you would think that America’s Muslim Population is taking over, due to their own “righteous” ways:

From Obama’s book, The Audacity of Hope (2006), pg. 261:

Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific assurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

And Obama slapped the majority of Americans in the face when he said this:

From cbn.com, July 30, 2007:

…Obama believes that religious conservatives need to accept the fact that America has evolved and government policies need to encompass all faiths because the country is no longer just a Christian nation.

I think that the right might worry a bit more about the dangers of sectarianism. Whatever we once were, we’re no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers. We should acknowledge this and realize that when we’re formulating policies from the state house to the Senate floor to the White House, we’ve got to work to translate our reasoning into values that are accessible to every one of our citizens, not just members of our own faith community.

…In a speech last month to a church convention, Senator Obama told the audience, “Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and started being used to drive us apart. It got hijacked. Part of it’s because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, who’ve been all too eager to exploit what divides us.”

This from the man who pushed for laws legalizing partial-birth abortion while in the Illinois State Senate, and signed a bill supporting abortion rights on a global scale as soon as he became president.   And then, there’s his shoddy treatment of Israel, showing his willful ignorance of Genesis 12: 1-3:

1 Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

I don’t know Who Scooter worshiped for those 20 long years in Rev. Wright’s church, but the God Christians worship unites us all under His Banner of Love.

Oh, by the way, did you hear what Mayor Bloomberg of New York said yesterday?

He is barring religion from the 9/11 10th Anniversary Memorial Service.

Newsmax reports:

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is under attack for refusing to allow members of the clergy to play a role in the city’s commemoration of the tenth anniversary of 9/11.

Bloomberg insists the ceremonies should focus on the families of those killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center. He is also barring political speech. But pastors and politicians are lining up to lambast his decision, reports The Wall Street Journal.

“This is America, and to have a memorial service where there’s no prayer, this appears to be insanity to me,” said Rudy Washington, a deputy mayor under Bloomberg’s predecessor Rudy Giuliani, who organized a nationally televised interfaith ceremony at Yankee Stadium in the days after the 2001 attacks.

“I feel like America has lost its way,” added Washington. “I am very upset about it. This is crazy.”

Indeed.

May God protect those in the path of Hurricane Irene.