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They are suggesting that British society is suffering a judgement from God because it has moved away from the way of life he demands.
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It wouldn't be, say, because money for flood prevention works has been withheld or spent in the south (where I am, about 400 yards from the river, in fact)? It's all very well pontificating, but it doesn't help stop people's houses being flooded. Private Eye pointed out last week that it was well known that York was short of several hundred million pounds for flood barriers.
After all, rain isn't exactly unknown in the UK, the relative heights of bits of land and their proximity to rivers isn't a mystery and neither is the increased danger of flooding if you concrete over flood plains and low-lying land. Let's get some perspective on here and use our God/evolution*-given intelligence and cunning to put some proper engineering in. We're supposed to be *good* at that in the UK. Taking advice from bishops on this is as pointless as making Jade Goody professor of mathematics at Cambridge.
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