>On Jan 4, 2005, at 3:36 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
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>>what's wrong with frogs from the skies?
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>First, they make the road slippery. Second, they just encourage the
>possums and armadillos.
That applies to any plague of frogs, whether they came from the sky or whatever. Many years ago, as a travelling door-to-door salesman, I was dropped in the middle of such a frog plague, in north Queensland. The entire town and surrounding area was teeming with a carpet of frogs. It also rained continuously the entire day.
The problem with frogs from the sky I believe, though I haven't experienced this personally, is that it requires particularly extreme weather conditions to actually get all those frogs up into the sky in the first place. Such weather conditions can lift all sorts of things besides frogs into the sky and drop them down again. This has the potential to be far more unpleasant than a slippery road. Though, as I say, I haven't experienced it personally, so I'm only speculating.
I agree, deities that pull dangerous stunts like that to get attention are the sort of deities we can well do without. I much prefer the sober CofE sort of God that keeps his nose out of our business. In return, asking only that we stay completely out of His business. That way, everyone gets along just fine.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas