An opinion on Britain’s ‘almost unparalleled’ soaking leads to a political sacking
Silvester’s more recent letter reads: “I wrote to David Cameron in April 2012 to warn him that disasters would accompany the passage of his same-sex marriage bill, but he went ahead despite a 600,000-signature petition by concerned Christians and more than half of his own parliamentary party. …?Now, even as Cameron sheds crocodile tears on behalf of destitute flooded homeowners, playing at advocate against the very local councils he has made cash-strapped, it is his fault that large swathes of the nation have been afflicted by storms and floods. He has arrogantly acted against the Gospel that once made Britain great.”
Sometimes a storm is a storm and rain is rain: We do not know enough to attach particular weather to particular sins. But we also should not pooh-pooh such a possibility, because we know that God has warned with weather: “‘I also withheld the rain from you?…?I would send rain on one...