Scene: Somewhere beyond the Pearly Gates
Angel Gabriel: Lord, may I ask you something? Did you send Hurricane Irene to punish New York and all those New England liberals?
God: Did I what?
Gabriel: Send Hurricane Irene—
God: I can't believe you would ask me that! Why would you think I had anything to do hurricanes?
Gabriel: Well, Michelle Bachmann said you did; and besides, everybody knows that you use the weather to express your displeasure at human behavior.
God: That was when I was young. Don’t you remember that I made a deal with Noah never to punish them by destroying the earth with water? The rainbow, remember? I made the rainbow the sign of the covenant? [Quoting from memory--]
"12 God added, "Here is the sign of the covenant I am making between myself and you and every living creature with you, for all generations to come: 13 I am putting my rainbow in the cloud - it will be there as a sign of the covenant between myself and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth, and the rainbow is seen in the cloud; 15 I will remember my covenant which is between myself and you and every living creature of any kind; and the water will never again become a flood to destroy all living beings. 16 The rainbow will be in the cloud; so that when I look at it, I will remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of any kind on the earth." "(Genesis 9: 12-16)
Gabriel: Opps, I guess they forgot what the rainbows mean. But Michelle Bachmann said—
God: WHAT did that woman say this time? (He puts his head in his hands.)
Gabriel: She told a campaign rally in Florida, “I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending."
God: So she thinks there’s a loophole? That I’m not breaking my promise if I kill them all so long as I use a hurricane to bring the floods? Why is she dragging me into American affairs? They are such a quarrelsome bunch. (He frowns.)
Gabriel: I don’t think she knows you made the promise!
God: But she goes around “quoting” me all the time. Do people think I actually talk to her? I haven’t concealed myself in a burning bush to talk with humans for several millennia. I don’t get involved in politics. Besides, Jesus said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” (Luke 20:25) It’s all there in the Bible. Doesn’t she read the Bible?
Gabriel: She says she does. I heard her tell another campaign rally that “I just take the bible for what it is, I guess, and recognize that I am not a scientist, not trained to be a scientist. I'm not a deep thinker on all of this. I wish I was. I wish I was more knowledgeable, but I'm not a scientist.”
God: (LOL) Ain’t that the truth. You need a brain to be a scientist. Gabe, check our records—make sure I gave her a brain. There could have been a mistake on the assembly-line.
Gabriel: But Lord, you don’t make mistakes.
God: I don’t but the assembly line isn’t perfect; it gets backed-up now and then. Just check, would you? Y’know, I think the problem is the microphones at their campaign rallies. They get up there with those microphones in their hands and LIE! The whoppers I hear them tell! Why, I—
Gabriel: (Giggling) Excuse me for interrupting, Lord, but did you hear what she said about $2 per gallon gas? She said that when she becomes president, she’ll roll back the price of gas to $2 a gallon!
God: (God is laughing so hard, tears are rolling down his cheeks) $2 per gallon gas! (He falls off his throne and rolls on the floor.)
God: (Choking with laughter) Not in my lifetime!
Angel Gabriel: Lord, may I ask you something? Did you send Hurricane Irene to punish New York and all those New England liberals?
God: Did I what?
Gabriel: Send Hurricane Irene—
God: I can't believe you would ask me that! Why would you think I had anything to do hurricanes?
Gabriel: Well, Michelle Bachmann said you did; and besides, everybody knows that you use the weather to express your displeasure at human behavior.
God: That was when I was young. Don’t you remember that I made a deal with Noah never to punish them by destroying the earth with water? The rainbow, remember? I made the rainbow the sign of the covenant? [Quoting from memory--]
"12 God added, "Here is the sign of the covenant I am making between myself and you and every living creature with you, for all generations to come: 13 I am putting my rainbow in the cloud - it will be there as a sign of the covenant between myself and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth, and the rainbow is seen in the cloud; 15 I will remember my covenant which is between myself and you and every living creature of any kind; and the water will never again become a flood to destroy all living beings. 16 The rainbow will be in the cloud; so that when I look at it, I will remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of any kind on the earth." "(Genesis 9: 12-16)
Gabriel: Opps, I guess they forgot what the rainbows mean. But Michelle Bachmann said—
God: WHAT did that woman say this time? (He puts his head in his hands.)
Gabriel: She told a campaign rally in Florida, “I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending."
God: So she thinks there’s a loophole? That I’m not breaking my promise if I kill them all so long as I use a hurricane to bring the floods? Why is she dragging me into American affairs? They are such a quarrelsome bunch. (He frowns.)
Gabriel: I don’t think she knows you made the promise!
God: But she goes around “quoting” me all the time. Do people think I actually talk to her? I haven’t concealed myself in a burning bush to talk with humans for several millennia. I don’t get involved in politics. Besides, Jesus said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” (Luke 20:25) It’s all there in the Bible. Doesn’t she read the Bible?
Gabriel: She says she does. I heard her tell another campaign rally that “I just take the bible for what it is, I guess, and recognize that I am not a scientist, not trained to be a scientist. I'm not a deep thinker on all of this. I wish I was. I wish I was more knowledgeable, but I'm not a scientist.”
God: (LOL) Ain’t that the truth. You need a brain to be a scientist. Gabe, check our records—make sure I gave her a brain. There could have been a mistake on the assembly-line.
Gabriel: But Lord, you don’t make mistakes.
God: I don’t but the assembly line isn’t perfect; it gets backed-up now and then. Just check, would you? Y’know, I think the problem is the microphones at their campaign rallies. They get up there with those microphones in their hands and LIE! The whoppers I hear them tell! Why, I—
Gabriel: (Giggling) Excuse me for interrupting, Lord, but did you hear what she said about $2 per gallon gas? She said that when she becomes president, she’ll roll back the price of gas to $2 a gallon!
God: (God is laughing so hard, tears are rolling down his cheeks) $2 per gallon gas! (He falls off his throne and rolls on the floor.)
God: (Choking with laughter) Not in my lifetime!
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