Chris,
In the war of 1812, the British troops were burning Washington. They had burned the White House and the Library of Congress and were prepared to burn all of the public buildings to bring the great city and the symbol of our country to its knees. (Don't worry all of you fellows across the pond...this has another point). As the eye witnesses', both British and American, tell the story, a sudden storm arose, which they referred to as a 'hurricane'. Torrential winds, rain, and debris roaring about that crushed the British troops and forced a retreat. The troops were so shaken, that they marched back to the coast, boarded their ships, and left. The city was saved, since all of the fires were put out at the time of the storm.
Monroe and some members of his cabinet were about 5 miles away. As they looked back on the city from a hilltop, they saw a great funnel cloud wipe a swath through the area of the British camp. It was as they described the largest cloud of its type they had ever seen. Later, evidence of a 1/2 mile swath on destruction where the British camp was discovered. All of the cannon, wagons, tents, kitchens and ammunition had been lifted away and was either destroyed or missing, oddly with little loss of life but with a lot of debilitating injuries to the troops.
What are the odds that a tornado would hit Washington at that exact moment, in that exact place, do the damage, and then dissapear as quickly as it had arrived? In Washington,DC? As far as I know, it was the only recorded tornado in the city in recorded history.
Food for thought...could God have been protecting a country founded on the priciples of freedom of religion and the belief that all men were created equal in the eyes of the Creator?
Some things cannot be explained by science...the cooincidences are too extreme.
Garry