Fargo Residents Stop Fighting Flood to Pray
The flooding that is devastating North Dakota is a truly sad event. Stacking sandbags to hold back the flood waters is all that is keeping cities like Fargo from destruction and death. Stopping the work of strengthening these levees in order to pray for god to help hold back the flood waters seems like a very foolish act.
FARGO, N.D. – Weary residents of this sandbagged city came together in churches Sunday, counting their blessings that the Red River finally stopped rising and praying the levees would hold back its wrath. A brief levee break that swamped a school provided a warning of the kind of threat that still hangs over them in the days ahead.
Church services that are a staple of life on Sunday mornings in Fargo took on greater significance as people gathered after a week of round-the clock sandbagging. They sang hymns and held hands, asking together for divine help in avoiding disaster.
“At a time like this, we need to call on God’s providential assistance,” said the Rev. Bob Ona, pastor of Fargo’s First Assembly of God church. “All of you have been heroic in your efforts. All of you have been pushed past the wall of weariness, exhaustion and numerous frustrations in order to do the right thing — help people in the name of the Lord.”……..
- Read the full article here from the AP.
Residents of Fargo, ND Fighting Flood
These flood victims asking for god’s help in holding back the river waters seems very odd and pointless, not because I’m an atheist but it is irrational even if there was a god. God is supposed to be omnipotent being so it is likely that god wants the rivers to rise as they have. Perhaps the people living along the Red River have been living very sinful lives and god has decided to go Sodom and Gomorrah on their asses.
If god didn’t want the people to be threatened and possibly lose their cities and lives if the barriers fail then why didn’t he just stop the flooding from happening in the first place. Maybe that would make too much sense. One thing is clear in the end it will be a clear “miracle” and god intervening to either hold back the waters or if the levies break a “miracle” so few people were hurt. I’m sure a church will avoid damage and they will say, “God cupped his hands around the church and protected it.”
But what can you really expect from people smart enough to rebuild on a flood plane after catastrophic damage from a major flood only a little over a decade ago in 1997? Hopefully the sandbags can hold back nature long enough.
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