[PresbyRev]

Anyway, as a loving Father, we should know that He will spank

A loving parent might spank a child - would they collapse a building on their child with a bulldozer - drown them in a tub - terrorize them for hours on end? That is what a hurricane is going to do to folks in NO if that is indeed where it hits.

The implication that Deity is directing hurricanes for some punitive purpose is sick. Such a god would be a sadist. I am well nigh convinced that religion is a psychosis.

[Jeff Head]

While I will reframe from making any comment on God's judgements in this matter...because I am in no position to say...I will say this. We are mortal and look at life, as the scriptures say, darkly, through a glass. He sees us from an eternal perspective and so things we view as horrendous from that perspective may not be so viewed by God in His heaven who has our eternal view in mind.

Like a mother and father who punish a young child, be it spanking, or grounding, or otherwise...and from that child's perspective it is the end of the world....loving parents know it is not, that there are years of life ahead, and the lessons taught and learned by such an experience will benefit that same child in the years to come.

We are God's children and He views us similarly...with love...and there is an eternity before us that we do not comprehend, and rarely appreciate at this point.

That is not a psychosis, just an attempt to grasp that eternal perspective.