[AbeKrieger]

Well, He's got a lot more work to do.

[ncountylee]

"Yesterday Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco called for a state-wide day of prayer."

Prayer is fine, but Gov how about some leadership. People are dying!

[joesnuffy]

I believe California just passed a sodomite marriage
bill today.....

God may just have even more in store...

Stay tuned...repent..and turn to Jesus...

And your life will count for something...

[ChristianDefender]

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 . . .

This is one of the main reasons i think that God allowed this to happen...

Good thing that this time ACLU will find it impossile to sue God.. or even challenge His moral standards!

[dennisw]

. . . 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."

Nope. He's just telling you to rebuild on high ground. Don't rebuild on the ruins of your sin city. Pick a luckier location. Lucky for you and lucky for the taxpayers of the United States of America.

[Dems_R_Losers]

Good grief, I hope this Oliver Thomas is a Democrat -- otherwise the MSM will have a field day with these comments.

Note to y'all: the poor folks suffering right now in New Orleans are not the folks participating in Southern Decadence or even Mardi Gras.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

"Maybe God's going to cleanse us."

More like He is letting you stew in your own sewage.

The Golden calf of the gulf has been ground to powder, now let the people drink their fill.

[ValerieUSA]

When New Orleans city officials repent from corruption and confess their sins of stealing and are voted out of office or jailed - then we will see cleansing.
Now we just see the filth that was always there exposed.

[sweetjane]

I read the entire article and the link to the previous article. I have to say that it sounds very similar to what Islamic representatives have been saying. And I'm a practicing Christian.

Those people need help NOW. Not "blame the victim," or religious self-righteousness, or political second-guessing, or green (environmental) retribution.

Let's analyze it after the people are secure.

[sinkspur]

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."

Was Gulport a "sin city"? What about Long Beach, Ms.? Christian Pass?

This "God is punishing innocent people because gays like to party" stuff is a distortion of who God is. It's used as a weapon by a bunch of self-righteous Christians who are perfectly willing to paint God as some cruel ogre for their selfish ends.

[ladyinred]

Boy, he better be a democrat, or he is going to be dog meat for saying that.

[Ken H]

Didn't the French Quarter fare better than most of NO, due to its higher elevation?

[PresbyRev]

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.

[Gabz]

The people that spout this crapola make me absolutely ill.

[franky]

Pols ask for prayers but do very little in keeping prayer in our schools. So they now are getting their chastisement

[Hank Rearden]

I'm sure the plastic-haired, snakefondling TV beggars are going to milk this angle until Doomsday.

And the morons who watch them will fall prey to the hucksterism.

[kittymyrib]

Apparently, CA doesn't see this as a warning, the legislature passing a gay marriage bill yesterday. And they are sitting on a maze of fault lines with the "Big One" overdue. The Bible warns: The wheels of God's justice grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine. Only a tiny minority in our land hee that warning, but the Almighty God is a majority of One.

[Radioactive]

Oh no.....this thread will be pulled.

You cannot talk of this idea of God's retribution on this site because I was told there is no need for this type of discussion.

Free Republic is not free.

You need to realize this and watch what you say here.

The republican party owns this site and the First amendment does not apply.

You will be told that you need some tin foil and that any comments such as yours will not be tollerated.

[Zavien Doombringer]

well, If God was going to cleanse New Orleans, he brought plenty of water, but forgot the soap...

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Ping.