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."
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What about Gumbo and Jambalaya?
Farewell, tia.
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.
WTF is wrong with you, diver? Don't you know you're a guest here? Good-frickin-grief!
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.
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.
Of course those Baptist are bathing in the Gloryland today. The difference, they viewed life from an eternal perspective rather than a temporary one.
Suspect they are much happier today, than those left behind.
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.
The people that spout this crapola make me absolutely ill.
don't let the pusilanimous pusguts drive you away, baby!
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...
Light generally has that effect upon darkness.
That'll be news to the archaelogists who found their remnants.
Tia...please don't go! You're fighting nature is needed here!
EXCUSE ME?
The wise man built his house upon the rock, the foolish built his upon sand....
Of course Christ is the rock.
thank you.
too many folks on these threads stink of a cross between Jobs four visitors and David Duke.
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