[Rev. M. Rodimer]

God has smitten Mexico with a powerful earthquake. Why? Because Pope Benedict is about to visit, in an attempt to steer Mexicans who are finding God back to mindless, superstitious groveling before images of Mary, of course!

I’m sure that, within the hour, we will be hearing all sorts of ridiculous commentary about why God sent a magnitude 7.4 earthquake to Mexico today.

Haven’t read about it?

A strong, long 7.4 earthquake with an epicenter in Guerrero state shook central southern Mexico on Tuesday, swaying buildings in Mexico City and sending frightened workers and residents into the streets.

The U.S. Geological Survey set the intensity at 7.4 at a depth of 11 miles underground. Mexico’s National Seismological Survey said the earthquake had an epicenter southwest of Ometepec. The quake, first reported as having a 7.9 magnitude, was centered about 120 miles east of Acapulco.
Telephone lines and cell phone reception were down and traffic snarled in the capital moments after the quake, which was followed by a 4.8-magnitude aftershock.

At this moment, all the reporting is coming from Mexico City, far distant from the epicenter. What’s happening at Acupulco? We shall soon see. Apparently, per a radio report as I type, hundreds of homes are damaged or have collapsed there.

There is a much more important reason for God to be angry and to be shaking Mexico. You won’t hear it from Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum, though . . . and I doubt Pat Robertson will even have the fortitude to bring it up!

March 18, 2012 — Benedict XVI sets off for Mexico and Cuba this week, hoping to win over followers in a region with the largest concentration of Catholics, but where some critics say he has neglected them.
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The 84-year-old pontiff’s pontificate has largely focused on re-evangelising an increasingly secularised Europe.
But that has led some critics to accuse him of neglecting Latin America, which has also seen a decline in Catholicism.

God is angry. As long as Benedict was trying to convince Europeans who have embraced atheism to convert to Catholicism, God didn’t much care. He knew they were lost causes anyway. But now?

Christians have been making serious inroads in Mexico and the rest of Latin America. Catholicism is fading not because people are deciding they hate God so much that they will just pretend He’s not real (like Euroatheists), but instead they are finding Jesus and starting to pray to Him instead of a cracker.

This little shaker is a warning to Benedict to steer clear of the mighty work God is giving us in Mexico:

The pope will visit Mexico on March 23, before going on to Cuba, where he will celebrate mass in the same square visited in 1998 by his charismatic predecessor, John Paul II. It was John Paul who helped persuade the communist Cuban regime to open up to the world.

Will Benedict listen? Or will he insist on bringing his witchcraft back to Mexico, and leading a people who are striving for God back to damnation?