Dear God

Last night, as I was watching Paula Zahn on CNN freak out over Hurricane Rita ("the third largest storm on record!"), then the Jet Blue plane with landing gear problems that was circling LAX (and later landed safely, thanks to the brilliant pilot), and also news reports that a twister had touched down right outside of Minneapolis, I turned to my wife and said, "Maybe God really is mad at America..."

...for using Him to justify the so-called "war on terror", to fuel hatred of His gay sons and daughters, to enact policies that greatly reward rich friends of the president and do nothing to lift many of His people out of poverty, and for our president's incredibly dangerous arrogance in assuming that he is somehow acting as an instrument of God's will in all that he does.