User blog:VicGeorge2K9/My commentary on Zachary Comstock's theology

From his Voxophone message "His Design For Cruelty", Comstock says:

''To tax the black more than the white, is that not cruel? To forbid the mixing of the races, is that not cruel? To give the vote to the white man, and deny it to the yellow, the black, the red -- is that not cruel? Hm. But is it not cruel to banish your children from a perfect garden? Or drown your flock under an ocean of water? Cruelty can be instructive, and what is Columbia, if not the schoolhouse of the Lord?''

The error in his theology here is comparing human injustices (perpetuated by himself, no less) to God's judgments in the Bible which a Bible student can readily see are actually "just deserts". God's "banish[ing His] children from a perfect garden", referencing the Garden of Eden, was because they have sinned against the Lord, which Comstock purposely omits. God's "drown[ing His] flock under an ocean of water", referencing the Flood in the time of Noah, was also because most of them have sinned, and it was only Noah and his family who found grace in God, another thing purposely omitted by Comstock. How that compares to denying