Just a response to the wackos who see Katrina as divine retribution

[jobycom]

on New Orleans for homosexuality and sexuality and all the other things that make life worth living, and on the Mississippi Coast for gambling.

The eye of the hurricane passed over some of the most conservative, fundamentalist regions of the planet, and the devastation was fierce. It wiped out Waveland and Pearlington, Mississippi--both of which are conservative and neither of which had gambling--completely. Not one house remained habitable in Pearlington, and very few in Waveland. It also struck Long Beach and Pass Christian, both of which banned gambling in their towns (btw, it's pronounced "Chrish-ti-ANNE" not "Christian.") Pass Christian is 70% destroyed according to officials, and they say that Long Beach just isn't there anymore.

Katrina destroyed northern Hancock County, Poplarville, Bogalousa (LA) and regions north of there. These are some of the most religious, right wing, fundamentalist places in America. The winds blew trees that have not faced such winds in decades over onto houses and powerlines. A fifty foot pine with a three foot diameter trunk slices like a tomahawk right through a house, and it hits power lines with enough strength to shatter poles in both directions. These regions were devestated, and may take months before power becomes a normal utility in these regions again.

So the storm didn't just strike Sin City and the Guldside Las Vegas. It struck fundamentalist America equally as hard. Look no further than Trent Lott's house for proof of this.

If there is a god and he was sending a message, I'm not smart enough to understand it, unless the message was simply "Be humble, because the forces of nature are mightier than anything you humans can build."

[mom cat]

1. well said...thanks.

[jeff30997]

2. It was the Devil who destroyed the "good" people's town !

:evilgrin:

[pacalo]

3. If God was sending a message, it was intended for this administration

& his twisted fundie supporters. Hurricane Katrina has been the only effective tool in shining a light on both poverty & this administration's twisted sense of priorities -- at a time when this administration relishes the killing of innocent Iraqis for their oil & the fundies supporting this administration's immoral war to satisfy their twisted interpretation of "God's prophesy".

You have to wonder: What in the hell are we doing in Iraq & why are we spending billions of dollars there when there are so many more important needs in our own country? Every federal program that assists the poor is being cut by this administration to fund this war. At the same time, our government is encouraging corporations to take our jobs to other countries to reduce their poverty level, while the middle class in our own country is disintegrating.

If God's sending a message, it's "Get your priorities in order & follow Jesus's teachings":

-- Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

-- Blessed are the meek, for they shall possess the land.

-- Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

-- Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice, for they shall have their fill.

-- Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

-- Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.

-- Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.

-- Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

[A HERETIC I AM]

4. Isn't it possible that God's message is.....

"Shit.....i missed some"

It strikes me as funny that there are always people standing amid the ruins of their neighborhood in disaster zones like this saying things like "I thank God that we were spared" or "God was looking out for us".

Sorry, but it looks to me like god was trying to get you and missed.


Or is it more likely that this was simply a storm, driven by predictable forces that struck in a relatively random way and had nothing to do with ANYTHING supernatural?