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"Fredric L. Rice" |
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17 Oct 2005 01:36:11 AM |
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Insane, delusional Christians on Katrina |
Like something out of third world shite heaps, the occult,
superstitious ignorance of savages.
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"There's been a black spiritual cloud over New Orleans for years," the
Rev. Franklin Graham, son of influential American preacher Billy
Graham, said during an appearance this month at Liberty University, a
Christian school in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Saying New Orleans is a city known for Satan worship, orgies and
widespread drinking and drug use, the younger Graham spoke about how
some believed God was using the hurricane to spark a religious revival
there.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051016/us_nm/hurricanes_christians_dc
Some US Christians say Katrina was God's handiwork
By Paul Simao
Sun Oct 16
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - When Hurricane Katrina slammed into New
Orleans, submerging entire neighborhoods for weeks with its ferocious
tidal surge, some say it was not a freak act of nature but a message
from an angry God.
That's the belief of some Christians in the United States, who have
been warning the Mardi Gras capital, long known for its hedonistic
ways, was bucking for a good dose of divine retribution.
"There's been a black spiritual cloud over New Orleans for years," the
Rev. Franklin Graham, son of influential American preacher Billy
Graham, said during an appearance this month at Liberty University, a
Christian school in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Saying New Orleans is a city known for Satan worship, orgies and
widespread drinking and drug use, the younger Graham spoke about how
some believed God was using the hurricane to spark a religious revival
there.
That the death and destruction visited on residents of the city in
late August could have been the product of divine intervention even
found its way into the halls of government. "Maybe God's going to
cleanse us," Oliver Thomas, president of the New Orleans City Council,
told reporters after the storm.
For some Christians, a good cleansing would start with the saloons,
gay bars and erotic dance clubs that line Bourbon Street in the city's
French Quarter, which ironically was relatively unscathed by Katrina's
wind and water.
It is there that tourists and locals flock when they come to town,
especially during the annual Mardi Gras celebrations when public
nudity and drunken revelry become staples of the historic district's
street life.
Itinerant evangelists are also drawn to the quarter, although they
seek stray souls rather than hook-ups and hangovers. "I'm here to
spread the Gospel," said Michael Walker, who stood on Bourbon Street
with a sign that read "Time is running out. Do you know Jesus?"
'APOCALYPTIC VISION'
Indeed, millions of people, particularly in the Southern Bible Belt
states, believe the physical world will come to an end as the result
of a supernatural event, such as those described in the Bible's Book
of Revelation.
Those who embrace this Apocalyptic vision -- about 15 to 20 percent of
U.S. Christians by some accounts -- have been bolstered in their
beliefs by what they see as a spiritual decay in America that has
lasted for decades.
From their perspective, legalized abortion, gay rights and the
widespread availability of pornography are an affront to God and proof
the world has descended into the darkness the Bible says is supposed
to occur before the end of the world.
"Their rhetoric is that perhaps God's blessing has been removed and we
can't expect to be protected," said Nancy Ammerman, a sociology
professor at Boston University who has written about conservative
Christians.
Indeed, some evangelicals latched onto Katrina, which hit New Orleans
days before the city was to hold a "Southern Decadence" festival, as
the sort of cataclysmic event the New Testament says will occur before
Jesus returns to Earth.
Skeptics note Christians have been making incorrect predictions for
2,000 years about Judgment Day, including shortly before the dawn of
the new millennium a few years ago.
Although most who subscribe to the idea of the world ending sooner
rather than later peacefully practice their faith, there are a small
number on the fringe actively working to help speed up the process,
sometimes violently.
Often referred to as "Apocalyptic cults," these groups have on
occasion convinced their followers to commit mass suicides in the
belief that the world as they knew it was ending.
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| User: "t1gercat" |
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| Title: Re: Insane, delusional Christians on Katrina |
17 Oct 2005 12:24:40 PM |
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Fredric L. Rice wrote:
Like something out of third world shite heaps, the occult,
superstitious ignorance of savages.
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"There's been a black spiritual cloud over New Orleans for years," the
Rev. Franklin Graham, son of influential American preacher Billy
Graham, said during an appearance this month at Liberty University, a
Christian school in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Well, I went into my prayer closet and got a crystal clear vision of
what happened. God specifically spared the gays and others because HE
made them that way, so He smited the coast with Katrina before their
celebration occcurred. He could have done it afterward, but he thought
some might still be in town drunk or high, so He thought it would be
best to do it a few days before-hand.
His targets were multiple: the evil oil industry that's depoiling the
sea and air, the Gulf Coast right wing morons who invoke His name when
exercising their own venality and meanness, the gambling industry for
robbing the poor of their savings, Baptists and fundies for which He
has a great aversion, and republicans in general.
Don't believe me? Look, He even left a dead cow in a Baptist Church.
Too bad for the cow, who was a mean old thing that denied milk to her
offspring anyway, but a clear message to the fundies among us. As if
Katrina -- with which He smited the oil platforms mightily -- wasn't
enough, He hit the oil producers and their minions in Texas, too. He
also sent tonadoes to smite a few places in the midwest that
particularly annoy Him, and He's engulfed the northeast in rain because
it turned on its democratic and liberal traditions, which He favors, in
order to vote for the devil's soul-mates, republicans.
Repent brothers and sisters! Repent! Buy fuel efficient cars. Donate
to the poor, not to the casinos. Vote Liberal. Be nice to everyone! Be
generous and compassionate! Do not judge! He is watching.
Wexford
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