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[yakalskovich]

When I first saw this, I thought 'Well, hee hee'; then I thought, 'Hey wait, saphyria and alchemistseraph  live there as well, and if anybody says they deserve tornadoes, I'll be up with an axe against them.

A related discussion erupted all over my corner of tumblr, with one lady especially chiming in again and again.

Now I wonder whether it might be the other way round: religious people are more likely to live/stay where there are tornadoes around because they believe God will preserve them, put them in the place where they ought to be, or generally are less driven to leave the place where they've got roots?

Basically, the Bible Belt is the Bible Belt because the non-bible-thumpers, statistically speaking, are more likely to move away out of reach of the tornadoes, and thus leave a significant percentage of religious people in those places?

But so not posting this whacky theory that on tumblr for the next round of general slammage. Tumblr can be so awfully earnest.

Comments

[yakalskovich]

Sorry, I didn't want to offend you (or anyone) personally by posting the link to that graphic.

And yes, I meant 'judgmental holier-than-thou asses', really. And didn't mean to imply that anybody deserves natural disasters, as that would be stooping down to the level of the people who said New Orleans deserved Katrina for its many and historical sins. I personally think anyway that we don't get what we deserve. Nobody gets what they deserve; people only get what they get, The End. When people says 'They got what they deserved', they really mean that they approve of what these other people randomly happened to get out of the randomness of one thing happening after another.

I was merely wondering about the correlation, which is very visual and quite striking.-

[silveraspen]

Correlation does not equal causation. :)

[saphyria.livejournal.com]

*needs a Like button*

[yakalskovich]

No, it does not. I was just wondering whether that extreme correlation means anything.

But I think what Saph says down there makes a lot of sense, with 'tornadoes are part of the landscape'.