"Warnings year after year by godly evangelists and preachers went unheeded. So why were we surprised when finally the hand of judgment fell? Sadly, innocents suffered along with the guilty. Sin always brings suffering to good people as well as the bad."
Or so says godly Alabama state Senator Hank Erwin. It would be redundant to state his party affiliation. Erwin, quoted in Beliefnet writes a column that he distributes to various “news” outlets in which he evidently uses God to justify his diseased ideas about the world.
"New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast have always been known for gambling, sin and wickedness," Erwin wrote. "It is the kind of behavior that ultimately brings the judgment of God."
Never mind that the God of godly Erwin kills cute little children, innocent peasant farmers and cuddly puppies by the tens and hundreds of thousands to punish people who don’t insist that we pledge allegiance to Erwin’s God or who like to put a quarter or two into a slot machine or worst of all, don’t support the Republican Party.
"If you are a believer and read the Bible, you know sin has judgment," Erwin said. "New Orleans has always been known for sin. ... The wages of sin is death." Apparently Erwin is covered by a Union contract and has a different pay package.
Erwin, a former “conservative” talk-radio host, is now a media consultant as well as a blasphemous bastard and Republican, if you’ll pardon the redundancy. All the innocents who were killed may not have been the target he claims, but they got in the way of God’s clumsy animal rage.
Televangelist and professional felon Pat Robertson said Katrina might be linked to God's judgment concerning legalized abortion, and some “conservative” rabbis suggested Katrina was retribution for supporting the Israeli pullout from Gaza. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan suggested the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina was divine punishment for the violence America had inflicted on Iraq. Militant Muslims around the world hold similar views, the 40,000 dead in Pakistan notwithstanding. No word yet from Pat Robertson as to whether they all died horribly because they were Muslims and no word from Farrakhan about whether they died because they weren’t Muslim enough.
How many religious leaders can grind their axes on the same stone?
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Maybe they all didn't die but were taken away to populate some planet like I saw on star trek once.
Well if Mel Gibson's dad can get away with claiming that all the Jews who disappeared from Europe in the 1940's actually went to Australia and New Jersey (Mel says his dad always tells the truth) then why not?
Since all those lunatics are pushing the teaching of intelligent design in schools, I was thinking that their views should also be offered as alternatives in any science that is arguably "incomplete". For example, instead of teaching the science of weather patterns, we can teach that hurricanes are god's punishment for sin. Remarkably, hurricanes tend to sock it to the red states pretty bad.
Yes, funny how churches get hit by lightening as much as any other building and sunday school buses drive over cliffs and earthquakes kill as many faithful as atheists. . . . .
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