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...
"People often ask why God allows these things to occur."
Helen Keller said, "We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world."
It seems to me that it must be necessary to God's purposes that we live in a world where bad things can happen to good people (from our perspective) for no apparent reason.
But then, our time here on Earth is so short in comparison to eternity...
Helen Keller also said, "I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
It seems to be my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were...well, small.
Had this storm come up out of nowhere and smacked only New Orleans your argument might have a leg to stand on but since it whacked areas not particularly sinful like little towns in Mississippi and Alabama not known for their sinful activities it doesn't. Mississippi has maybe ONE abortion clinic and it is not widespread in Alabama either.
Trying to make this a message from God shows me that those who make this claim don't know much about him.
Excellent post. Right on the mark. Unfortunately, when the truth is not PC, its ridiculed.