Sharon Stone Says Chinese Earthquake Caused by Bad Karma

At least Dior did the right thing and yanked Stone from all of their advertisements.

Oh wait a minute.

Chris

Wouldn't we have to have granted her some sort credibility and/or authority in the first place? :-)

Sharon Stone is an actress, not the pope, the dalai lama, or a spiritual leader of hundreds of thousands or even millions of people. Pat Robertson deserved to be called out for his comments primarily because of his position as a well-known spiritual leader. Being in such a position as a leader means that folks sort of need to keep an eye them, because of their actual and genuine influence. Robertson is after all a preacher, right?

Stone, by contrast, is a dilettante. If the various idiocies which flow from her mouth are largely ignored, I'd say we've got it about right. You're trying to make this into an example of culture-war double standards. And hey, maybe it is to some extent. But when you do it here, aren't you in a sense elevating an idiot like Sharon Stone to the level of spiritual leader?

One other point....people who explicitly believe in karma really think this way...they've adopted it as a doctrine of sorts. I mean, you either think all events occur due to spiritual direction, or you think some classes of events (like weather and natural disasters) are random. Not sure whether there's really a lot of in-between there. Even though most folks like to pick and choose which attribution to use, cafeteria-style.

I mean, suppose you pray for a sunny day for your daughter's graduation, and it comes sunny. Were your prayers answered? Everyone has to answer that for themselves, I guess.
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I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy for those who think, and a tragedy for those who feel. -Horace Walpole