I'm not quite sure if everyone got the chance to receive this story through e-mails circulating for quite a while now. However, because this affected my belief in a positive way, I decided to arrange it, do additional research and write it in such a way that people of all religions can appreciate it and again realize that God really does exist. He is a forgiving God, but be careful not to neither mock Him nor challenge His existence. Here are a few accounts of how some people with no faith in our God encountered an untimely death and/or failure.
- The man who built the Titanic reportedly said in an interview, when he was asked how strong his ship was, that not even God can sink it. I guess all of us know what happened next. Jack? Rose?
- John Lennon, famous singer of the similarly famous band Beatles, announced to the public that Christianity will soon end, that it will become extinct. This, he said, is certain. He even went as far as saying that the subjects thought by Jesus were too simple. “The Beatles”, he said, “is more famous than Jesus.” John Lennon, after saying this, died from six gun shots from a fan.
- Tancredo Neves, elected President of Brazil in 1985, said during his campaign that if and when he gets half a million votes from his party, not even God can remove him from his position. He was right; he did get the votes and was elected on January 15, 1985. However, he got sick a day prior to the inauguration ceremony on March 15 of the same year. He then died on April 21, 1985 - less than a month after he got sick and without being able to assume his new post.
- A bi-sexual Brazilian artist by the name of Cazuza, during one of his shows where he probably was too high and too proud, puffed out cigarette smoke and playfully said, “God, that was for you.” He died from lung cancer at the age of thirty-two.
- Marilyn Monroe was once visited by Billy Graham, a preacher, in one of her shows. He told Monroe that he was sent by the Spirit of God. Monroe, after listening to what Graham had to say, answered, “I don't need your Jesus.” A week later, Monroe's housekeeper found her dead in her apartment.
- Ronald Belford Scott, a Scottish-Australian rock musician and lead singer of AC/DC, said in one of his 1979 songs, “Don't stop me, I'm going down all the way, down the highway to hell.” On February 19 the following year, Scott died. The cause of his death, according to the media, is that he was choked by his own vomit. However, the official cause listed was “death by misadventure”.
- Well known Jamaican media personality, Christine Hewitt, said that the worst book ever written is the Holy Bible. In June 2006, Hewitt was killed by unknown attackers and was burnt beyond recognition.
- In Brazil, a group of youngsters, drunk, went out to pick up one of their friends. The mother of one of the teens accompanied the entire group to the car, and worried about the state of drunkenness of her daughter's friends, said “My daughter, go with God and may He protect you.” The daughter responded, “Only if He travels in the trunk, "cause in here, it"s already full.” The entire group died in a car accident several hours after. The impact of the accident was so huge that the car can no longer be recognized, but surprisingly, the trunk remained intact. A crate of eggs resting inside it was still there, none of the contents broken.
I am not sure whether these people encountered karma or sheer bad luck, or if their death and misfortune were coincidentally very near with the reported dates of their anti-God remarks. I just know that it is never right to mock our own God, much less challenge what He is capable of.
