Kirk Cameron has received a huge backlash on Twitter after uploading a Facebook video airing his thoughts on the current natural disasters occurring in the world right now, calling it divine punishment.
His video, which has more than 250,000 views, attracted a lot of attention as the 46-year-old actor has said that God sent us the hurricanes to teach us ‘humility, awe and repentance.’
In the video the former Growing Pains star, who was at the airport leaving Florida, said: ‘We know that weather is sent to cause us to respond to God in humility, awe and repentance.’
Kirk Cameron has received backlash on Twitter after uploading a Facebook video airing his thoughts on the current natural disasters: ‘We know that weather is sent to cause us to respond to God in humility, awe and repentance’
‘There isn’t a random molecule in the universe, I believe, but that God is the lord of the wind and the waves.’
The evangelical Christian continued to say: ‘what this should be doing for all of us is causing us to remember that it’s God that supplies our life, breath and everything else so that you and I would reach out to him.’
He told parents to tell their kids: ‘Remind them that God is the blessed controller of all things […] and he is the one who gives us peace, security and strength in the midst of the storm and he uses this to point us to him and to his care for us.’
He quoted The Bible’s Old Testament and said that God ’causes [storms] to happen for punishment, or to water his land to demonstrate his faithful love.’
His controversial video was not well received on Twitter with many users criticizing the actor
His comments weren’t well received on Twitter with one person writing: ‘if you weren’t such an ignorant I would respond to your stupidity. If your GOD is a good God why this world is upside down?’
Another user outright said: ‘#kirkcameron should stand in the middle of hurricane to get a better view of god’s power.’
Many people didn’t agree with what he had to say: ‘Here all this time I thought #KirkCameron was sent here to remind us how much his god sucks.’
The tweets didn’t end there with another user writing: ‘There will never be enough hurricanes to make #KirkCameron humble,’ and another saying ‘#KirkCameron and #ScottBaoi should put together an act called Fading Teen Idols-Idiots For Trump.’
Cameron, pictured here at the Grand Ole Opry House, said: ‘what this should be doing for all of us is causing us to remember that it’s God that supplies our life, breath and everything else so that you and I would reach out to him’
This picture shows people fleeing and evacuating their homes after hurricane Harvey hit in Houston, Texas
His controversial video follows on from Jennifer Lawrence’s comments on the hurricanes and climate change, which fans also took offence to.
The Oscar winner suggested that the recent spate of deadly hurricanes to hit the US are ‘mother nature’s rage’ against President Donald Trump and his supporters.
After Houston suffered the worst flooding in recent memory from Harvey and Miami prepares to face a direct hit from Irma, the outspoken actress seemed to lay the blame for the natural disasters firmly with voters who are skeptical about global warming.
‘It’s also scary to know, that climate change is due to human activity, and we continue to ignore it, and the only voice that we really have is through voting,’ said Lawrence, in an interview with the UK’s Channel 4 to promote her new movie, Mother!
This is an aerial view of the devastation following hurricane Irma at Mafolie on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
This picture shows the damage in Anegada, British Virgin Islands