My question is: should someone like Ms. Falsani, the Sun-Times' "Religion Writer" resort to using a bigoted term like "redneck" to describe a minister with whom she disagrees? Should she be asked to publish an apology or resign as "religion writer?"
This guy has just as much right to say what he wants as Louis Farrakhan has to say that whites blew up the bridge. Other side of the same coin. Same kind of person, different extremes.
Why didn't this guy write "America is a modern day Soddom and Gammorah"? I don't buy it that he meant the whole country. He meant NO.
How come Tom Robbins comments are correct but Dr. Benett's aren't? Looks like the writer is letting bias show. Nah, that can't be right.
She called him on the PHONE, and concludes that he's a "REDNECK."
Absolutely she ought to be sacked for that.
She also dismisses that in response to his absolutely legally protected speech, church property was vandalized, which is illegal.
She's a terrible excuse for a human being. Some "religion" writer.
Now how could New Orleans be both Sodom and Gamorrah? Interestingly I did see an article on San Francicso reviewing their disaster plans and couldn't help but think maybe that'd be a good idea just in case.
Err.. so why is the claim that because the quarter infamous for drunken debauchery, robbery, and prostitution was spared demonstrative of God's approval any less offensive, if not in fact moreso.
The prophets who speak of fire and brimstone are never popular, that is not to say that they are wrong.
"So high that God couldn't reach it?"
It was a 'warning' shot!
Dr. Bennett's beliefs are based on scripture as opposed to Falsani's beliefs which appear to exclude a need for salvation through Jesus Christ.
There are things that happen particularly at night in New Orleans which I would not want to see or try to explain to a child but then we aren't really suppose to object to anything no matter how debauched it may be.
No. It just demonstrates the immense mercy of God towards the sinful. Although it's bittersweet, I'm sure most of the poor souls who perished in this disaster are enjoying Paradise. God's mercy may have spared the decadent if only to give them the wake-up call that can save their souls...
People often ask why God allows these things to occur. I'm not sure anyone will know until we enter His house. But then it doesn't make much sense in our small, human way of thinking that He would become man, then elect to suffer and die on the Cross to pay for my sins...
A lot of people here react violently to the thought that, "wow, God is still in charge and maybe He's trying to tell us something" -- as if we're not worthy of being chastised for 45 million dead babies, but China is.
People like Falsani who claim to be religious experts but out-of-hand discount the possibility that God is trying to speak to us completely ignore a critical component of Judeo-Christianity - and that's JUDGMENT. And sadly, this is just a microcosm of man's attitude towards his own soul. Truly, the only end of the world we have to worry about is our own. If I go out and accidentally step in front of a bus, that's the end of my world. It doesn't do me much good to go through life assuming that God never punishes those He loves. Most people don't care to take stock of their souls. In the larger sense, when things like this happen, our country becomes terrified of taking stock of our nation's soul. And that's folly.
Still, God is truly merciful. As Mother Angelica once said, "the way things are going in this country, God is going to owe Soddom and Gommorah an apology". I don't know that this was a warning from God, but to dismiss it is only the tragic repetition of those who ridiculed Noah for building an ark.
Just my .02...
Geez, I thought Robbins was dead years ago from drug abuse.
Wrong..
New York is Sodom... and..
Chicago is Gomorrah..
Insensitive Bennett may be, but also right.
And as for those who "eke out a living below the poverty line," for many that is a choice they have made - to rely on government handouts, government housing, and to do absolutely as little as possible to survive.
Go there and see for yourself.
Didn't Mark Twain call the Mississippi River the "colon of North America"?
You hafta wonder about what lives at the exit of a colon.
(Did I really say that? How un-PC of me...bad EE, baaaad EE)
"The Big Easy is a Modern Day Sodom and Gomorrah"
Putting that on the sign wasn't the smartest thing I have ever seen.
Nothing wrong with the sign to me. I get the point he's trying to say.
In fact that sign could probably go on a national tour and stop at each town on the map.
Change "the Big Easy" to "insert your town name here" and he's prob right on.
"THE BIG EASY IS THE MODERN DAY SODOM AND GOMORRAH."
Is this statement false, then?