Thanks, Congresswoman! And I actually think you lapped Christina Khalil in the complete science ignoramus race, though you both are tied in the “if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail” competition.
I want to know who in Georgia voted for this silly, embarrassing woman. I want names and explanations. Maybe DNA. It’s my Congress too…
After that puny 4.8 magnitude earthquake tickled the tri-state area (no injuries, no damage) Greene sent out a tweet claiming that God had sent the earthquake has a “sign” for the United State to “repent.” She also claimed today’s eclipse is another sign from God that the country needs to ask for forgiveness. Greene seems to be in tune with primitive societies that were terrified during eclipses, believing that the moon was eating the sun, or something. People like her allowed Bing Crosby to be declared a wizard in “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.”
“God is sending America strong signs to tell us to repent. Earthquakes and eclipses and many more things to come. I pray that our country listens,” Greene wrote on Twitter/”X”. Then yesterday, she added that “Many have mocked and scoffed at this post and even put community notes, Jesus talked about that in Luke 12:54-56.“
Uh, no. Jesus wasn’t talking about tweets, earthquakes or eclipses, and he definitely wasn’t saying that Marjorie Taylor Greene wasn’t a babbling, dim-bulb demagogue with approximately the scientific acumen of a planaria. I checked.
“Yes eclipses are predictable and earthquakes happen and we know when
comets are passing by, however God created all of these things and uses
them to be signs for those of us who believe,” was Greene’s grand finale. The cool thing is that those who “believe” can interpret the “signs” as meaning whatever they want them to mean. I, for example, think the earthquake is a sign that the Red Sox are going to shake up the American League East, and the eclipse, which is occurring on my wife’s birthday, is God’s way of saying He’s sorry for striking her dead on Leap Year, but reminding me that He works in mysterious ways.
Why not?
I’m one of the very few people who has witnessed ball lightning. The brilliant ball of phosphorescent electricity appeared rolled along right in front of my car when I was driving on King St. in Alexandria about 20 years ago. If I were like typical scientifically ignorant humans 2500 years ago (or like Marjorie Taylor Greene) I might have taken that spectacular natural phenomenon to be a message that I should become a prophet and walk the Earth like David Carradine in “Kung Fu,” or Johnny Appleseed.
Last week, I might have guessed that God was warning Georgia to start voting responsibly or else, but then why have the earthquake in New Jersey?
Mysterious.
Ethics Alarms 
Babylonian and Chinese astronomers (really astrologers due to how they used their data) were the first to describe and have the ability to predict eclipses. Does that make today’s cosmic dance a sign from Marduk?
An interesting read from Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-ancient-humans-studied-and-predicted-solar-eclipses/
“After that puny 4.8 magnitude earthquake tickled the tri-state area“
PWS
Her comments are about as scientific as all those claiming floods in the spring, hot days in the summer, hurricanes in the fall and snow in the winter are a signs of impending doom from mother earth and that we must repent by buying overpriced products made by slave laborers.
Every damn one of them is a demagogue.
Signs that people in this country ought to change their minds about a lot of things – a “changing of the mind” is, I believe, the actual Greek translation of the word “repentance” in the Bible – should be obvious without the need for earthquakes, floods, or eclipses as physical manifestations or reminders.
As for today’s eclipse and the whole “sun turning to darkness and the moon to blood” prophecies from the Bible…I will make one simple comment. Today’s eclipse will be seen by a portion of the world’s population, but a very large percentage of people will see nothing or only a tiny bit of an eclipse (here in Iowa we’ll get about 80% of total), unless they watch someone else’s experience via the Internet or TV.
The events described in the Bible prophecies do not seem to be local in nature, which leads me to believe that when those events occur, it will be an entirely different phenomena that everyone on earth will experience.
As a man of faith, I detest when anyone conflates faith and science. Science is the study of things observable. Faith is beleif in things unprovable. These are two forums of knowledge.
Repentence is , indeed needed, not only in the USA but throughout the world. Repentence, however, begins with the metanoia, [the turning around, changing direction] of an inidvidual. It is only after one changes self that they are capable of influencing a change in others.
I’ve caught big earthquakes, sandstorms, lightning strikes, less than one mile away, two solar eclipses, and one huge meteor shower, but no ball lightning yet. Lucky you!