In an op-ed in the Telegram & Gazette, Mathew Schmalz, associate professor of religious studies at the College of the Holy Cross, reacts to Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s comment that Hurricane Irene was God’s warning to Washington.
He writes, “Given that some definitive interpretations of the cross’s meaning have been a pretext for inflicting suffering on others, Christians like Michele Bachmann would be well advised to remain silent on the question of whether other forms of suffering, like those caused by hurricanes, are indeed acts of God.”
Professor Schmalz, whether merely a joke or not, sees the paradoxical remark as a “lack of faith” from the congresswoman who recently announced her candidacy for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
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