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New Orleans City Council President: "Maybe God's Going To Cleanse Us"
LifeSiteNews.com ^ | John-Henry Westen

Posted on 09/01/2005 7:20:09 PM PDT by LifeSite News

NEW ORLEANS, September 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The popular adage, "there are no atheists in the trenches" sums up the truth that in times of disaster it is natural for people to turn to God, for help and also for an explanation. The devastation wrought by hurricane Katrina has brought that reality home to the United States, particularly in the affected regions.

. . . New Orleans City Council President Oliver Thomas after witnessing the horrors first hand and hearing talk of Sodom and Gomorrah commented, "Maybe God's going to cleanse us."

The theme of cleansing or purification has become a frequently discussed topic as the tragedy in the affected states unfolds. European papers have suggested that Katrina was the punishment the US received for failing to sign onto the Kyoto accord, Islamic militants have rejoiced that "private" Katrina has joined in the holy war against the U.S. for - among other things - the Iraq war. Some have even suggested that the hurricane was God's punishment on the U.S. for cooperating in the removal of Jews from the Gaza strip.

However, beyond these speculations is a more general acknowledgement that New Orleans, the epicentre of the disaster, was a "sin city" which harboured few rivals. The New Orleans "southern decadence" festival which was to take place Labour Day weekend, is described by a French Quarter tourism site as "sort of like a gayer version of Mardi Gras" which is "most famous (or infamous) for the displays of naked flesh which characterize the event," with "public displays of sexuality . . . pretty much everywhere you look."

(Excerpt) Read more at lifesite.net ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: faith; katrina; new; oliverthomas; orleans
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To: rasblue
Pleeze... Sodom and Gomorrah is just a fairy tale

What about Gumbo and Jambalaya?

61 posted on 09/01/2005 9:32:11 PM PDT by FDNYRHEROES (Time for a new tag line...)
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To: tiamat; cyborg

Farewell, tia.


62 posted on 09/01/2005 9:32:16 PM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg.)
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To: tiamat

I know how you feel, I'm pretty fed up myself. May I suggest you just avoid the main board for awhile?

You'll miss us, admit it.


63 posted on 09/01/2005 9:32:35 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: Darksheare; tiamat
Yeah darks got to witness the depths of my stupidity earlier...

I am so glad that I had an audience for that!

Tiamat it all goes in cycles...

Just like the news coverage right now... you have to walk away for awhile and regain perspective.
64 posted on 09/01/2005 9:32:59 PM PDT by Americanwolf (To all in the States of MS, AL, and LA effect by Hurricane Katrina my heart and prayers to you all!)
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To: diverteach; Jim Robinson

WTF is wrong with you, diver? Don't you know you're a guest here? Good-frickin-grief!


65 posted on 09/01/2005 9:33:27 PM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg.)
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To: Americanwolf; tiamat

Yeah.
Even I get dunce-ish once in awhile.
Usually, nobody can tell because I'm being funny.
But.. others do it and it gets people upset.
Don't let them get to you tonight.
Not tonight.


66 posted on 09/01/2005 9:35:02 PM PDT by Darksheare (There is a Possum in the works.)
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To: LifeSite News

The Deity must have been pretty pissed off with those fundamentalist Baptists in Mississippi too.

Hurricanes hit the South Atlantic coast each year. Assigning meaning to it - God punishing or cleansing New Orleans - is asinine.


67 posted on 09/01/2005 9:35:08 PM PDT by PresbyRev
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To: PresbyRev

Of course those Baptist are bathing in the Gloryland today. The difference, they viewed life from an eternal perspective rather than a temporary one.


68 posted on 09/01/2005 9:37:32 PM PDT by bootslee
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To: PresbyRev

Suspect they are much happier today, than those left behind.


69 posted on 09/01/2005 9:38:54 PM PDT by bootslee
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To: tiamat

I'm sorry to see you saying this - but I do understand.

I'm starting to get sick of some of the holier-than-thou, racist, anti-semetic, anti-Catholic, gaybashing, etc., etc., crapola attitudes myself.

It's why I pretty much stick to only a few topics, and some dedicated type threads.....but my patience is also starting to wear thin.


70 posted on 09/01/2005 9:38:56 PM PDT by Gabz (USSG Warning: portable sewing machines are known to cause broken ankles)
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To: LifeSite News

The people that spout this crapola make me absolutely ill.


71 posted on 09/01/2005 9:40:52 PM PDT by Gabz (USSG Warning: portable sewing machines are known to cause broken ankles)
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To: tiamat

don't let the pusilanimous pusguts drive you away, baby!


72 posted on 09/01/2005 9:41:31 PM PDT by King Prout (and the Clinton Legacy continues: like Herpes, it is a gift that keeps on giving.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

A lot of practitioners of witchcraft and sorcery in that city. And shops that sell the foulest things. Some of them probably won't reopen...


73 posted on 09/01/2005 9:41:44 PM PDT by 185JHP ( "The thing thou purposest shall come to pass: And over all thy ways the light shall shine.")
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To: Gabz

Light generally has that effect upon darkness.


74 posted on 09/01/2005 9:42:11 PM PDT by bootslee
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To: tiamat
It's been attributed to Joe Garagiola.

Supposedly, as a catcher, he saw an opposing baseball player "cross" himself as he stepped up to the plate.

"Fer cryin' out loud," said Joe, "can't you let God just watch the game?"
75 posted on 09/01/2005 9:42:12 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (I am impervious to insult, being extraordinarily dense, rather like Superman.)
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To: rasblue

That'll be news to the archaelogists who found their remnants.


76 posted on 09/01/2005 9:42:22 PM PDT by skr
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To: tiamat

Tia...please don't go! You're fighting nature is needed here!


77 posted on 09/01/2005 9:43:22 PM PDT by trussell (Prayers for the children!)
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To: bootslee

EXCUSE ME?


78 posted on 09/01/2005 9:43:33 PM PDT by Gabz (USSG Warning: portable sewing machines are known to cause broken ankles)
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To: gidget7

The wise man built his house upon the rock, the foolish built his upon sand....
Of course Christ is the rock.


79 posted on 09/01/2005 9:44:14 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (The Democrat party is the official party of the Morlocks.)
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To: old-ager; tiamat; rdb3

thank you.
too many folks on these threads stink of a cross between Jobs four visitors and David Duke.


80 posted on 09/01/2005 9:45:11 PM PDT by King Prout (and the Clinton Legacy continues: like Herpes, it is a gift that keeps on giving.)
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