Agreed. God is active in history and he does punish people with natural phenomena for sinning against Him. Is that what this is? Maybe. But, I wouldn't say it would be so much on New Orleans per say but on America for the many sins she has tolerated for some time. Between our abortions, our rapes, our murders, our promotion of homosexuality, and most recently and most significantly our betrayal of Israel by pushing her to give up Gaza and other pieces of Israel to terrorists, I believe what we are seeing at the least is a lifting of God's hand of protection. We scream out at every turn "we don't need God" then are perplexed that he might oblige us.
I pray that the people are spared. They break my heart. But when I heard Shep Smith's comments from the bar on Bourbon street earlier this afternoon, I couldn't help but think about Matthew 24:37-39
37As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
So many are just brushing this off. Eating, drinking, shrugging their shoulders as they face a watery grave.
May God have mercy on our nation.
I think you could say that this is the most comfortable, healthy, happiest and most prosperous nation ever to have formed on this planet...
...Except for occasional crappy weather that has happened from time to time since time began.