Tornado God: American Religion and Violent Weather

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Tornado God: American Religion and Violent WeatherOne of the earliest sources of humanity's religious impulse was severe weather, which ancient peoples attributed to the wrath of storm gods. Enlightenment thinkers derided such beliefs as superstition and predicted they would pass away as humans became more scientifically and theologically sophisticated. But in America, scientific and theological hubris came face to face with the tornado, nature's most violent windstorm. Striking the United States

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