HolyWebLog.com
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Holy Weblog
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He doesn't know it as I write this, but the founder and editor of Beliefnet -- a longtime supporter of this blog -- got me wondering whether now was the time to finally get Holy Weblog out of the attic and tweak it for public consumption again. His terrific piece in Slate on the virtual anointing of George W. Bush persuaded me to rethink my mothballing of this site.
"Of course, it's always possible God did put George W. Bush in the White House. But if He did, it doesn't theologically follow that He wants him to have a second term. Even those who believe that God controls world events usually concede it is hard for humans to divine the intent of the Divine.
"After all, in the Bible, God is described as doing things for all sorts of inexplicable reasons -- sometimes as a reward to the people, and sometimes as a punishment."
