I saw a hurricane, others saw divine retribution? WTF?
You know we're all fucked when...
Steve Lefemine, an anti-abortion activist in Columbia, S.C., was looking at a full-color satellite map of Hurricane Katrina when something in the swirls jumped out at him: the image of an 8-week-old fetus. Damn he's good! He even knew the age of the fetus?
Lefemine went on to say, "In my belief, God judged New Orleans for the sin of shedding innocent blood through abortion". Lefemine, who e-mailed the flesh-toned weather map to fellow activists across the country and put a stark message on the answering machine of his organization, Columbia Christians for Life.
"Providence punishes national sins by national calamities," it said. "Greater divine judgment is coming upon America unless we repent of the national sin of abortion."
Lefemine is far from the only person to see the wrath of God in the awesome damage that Katrina has wreaked on the Gulf Coast... As with the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 and of course last year's South Asian tsunami.
So that was an anti-abortion activist. Next we have an America hating, Kuwaiti official named Muhammad Yousef Mlaifi.
"It is almost certain that this is a wind of torment and evil that Allah has sent to this American empire," Mlaifi wrote Wednesday in the Arabic daily Al-Siyassa under the headline "The Terrorist Katrina is One of the Soldiers of Allah . . ."
Next we have the Christian journalist.
Stan Goodenough was struck by the juxtaposition in recent days of Jewish settlers being removed from their homes in the Gaza Strip and Americans being forced out of their homes in New Orleans. Is this some sort of bizarre coincidence? Not for those who believe in the God of the Bible". "What America is about to experience is the lifting of God's hand of protection; the implementation of His judgment on the nation most responsible for endangering the land and people of Israel."
Just one minute. America is 'the nation most responsible'. Get this. Total U.S. aid to Israel is approximately one-third of the American foreign-aid budget, even though Israel comprises just .001 percent of the world's population and already has one of the world's higher per capita incomes. Indeed, Israel's GNP is higher than the combined GNP of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza. With a per capita income of about $14,000, Israel ranks as the sixteenth wealthiest country in the world; Israelis enjoy a higher per capita income than oil-rich Saudi Arabia and are only slightly less well-off than most Western European countries. Quite interesting facts - dontcha think?
Then there is Repent America who blames it on the gays.
In Philadelphia, Michael Marcavage saw no coincidence, either, in the hurricane's arrival just as gay men and lesbians from across the country were set to participate in a New Orleans street festival called "Southern Decadence."
"We take no joy in the death of innocent people," said Marcavage, who was an intern in the Clinton White House (how did that happen?) in 1999 and now runs Repent America, an evangelistic organization calling for "a nation in rebellion toward God" to reclaim its senses.
"But we believe that God is in control of the weather," he said in a telephone interview. "The day Bourbon Street and the French Quarter was flooded was the day that 125,000 homosexuals were going to be celebrating sin in the streets. . . . We're calling it an act of God."
I'm really glad to know that all of these people know the real reason for Hurricane Katrina - I was starting to think it was simply a weather system.
To donate:
American Red Cross
Mercy Corps (they donate 92% of contributions, only 8% to admin costs)
Liberal Blogosphere for Hurricane Relief
Rainbow World Fund
Quotes above published in The Washington Post.
Posted by Bryan Harding
Steve Lefemine, an anti-abortion activist in Columbia, S.C., was looking at a full-color satellite map of Hurricane Katrina when something in the swirls jumped out at him: the image of an 8-week-old fetus. Damn he's good! He even knew the age of the fetus?
Lefemine went on to say, "In my belief, God judged New Orleans for the sin of shedding innocent blood through abortion". Lefemine, who e-mailed the flesh-toned weather map to fellow activists across the country and put a stark message on the answering machine of his organization, Columbia Christians for Life.
"Providence punishes national sins by national calamities," it said. "Greater divine judgment is coming upon America unless we repent of the national sin of abortion."
Lefemine is far from the only person to see the wrath of God in the awesome damage that Katrina has wreaked on the Gulf Coast... As with the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 and of course last year's South Asian tsunami.
So that was an anti-abortion activist. Next we have an America hating, Kuwaiti official named Muhammad Yousef Mlaifi.
"It is almost certain that this is a wind of torment and evil that Allah has sent to this American empire," Mlaifi wrote Wednesday in the Arabic daily Al-Siyassa under the headline "The Terrorist Katrina is One of the Soldiers of Allah . . ."
Next we have the Christian journalist.
Stan Goodenough was struck by the juxtaposition in recent days of Jewish settlers being removed from their homes in the Gaza Strip and Americans being forced out of their homes in New Orleans. Is this some sort of bizarre coincidence? Not for those who believe in the God of the Bible". "What America is about to experience is the lifting of God's hand of protection; the implementation of His judgment on the nation most responsible for endangering the land and people of Israel."
Just one minute. America is 'the nation most responsible'. Get this. Total U.S. aid to Israel is approximately one-third of the American foreign-aid budget, even though Israel comprises just .001 percent of the world's population and already has one of the world's higher per capita incomes. Indeed, Israel's GNP is higher than the combined GNP of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza. With a per capita income of about $14,000, Israel ranks as the sixteenth wealthiest country in the world; Israelis enjoy a higher per capita income than oil-rich Saudi Arabia and are only slightly less well-off than most Western European countries. Quite interesting facts - dontcha think?
Then there is Repent America who blames it on the gays.
In Philadelphia, Michael Marcavage saw no coincidence, either, in the hurricane's arrival just as gay men and lesbians from across the country were set to participate in a New Orleans street festival called "Southern Decadence."
"We take no joy in the death of innocent people," said Marcavage, who was an intern in the Clinton White House (how did that happen?) in 1999 and now runs Repent America, an evangelistic organization calling for "a nation in rebellion toward God" to reclaim its senses.
"But we believe that God is in control of the weather," he said in a telephone interview. "The day Bourbon Street and the French Quarter was flooded was the day that 125,000 homosexuals were going to be celebrating sin in the streets. . . . We're calling it an act of God."
I'm really glad to know that all of these people know the real reason for Hurricane Katrina - I was starting to think it was simply a weather system.
To donate:
American Red Cross
Mercy Corps (they donate 92% of contributions, only 8% to admin costs)
Liberal Blogosphere for Hurricane Relief
Rainbow World Fund
Quotes above published in The Washington Post.
Posted by Bryan Harding
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on Tuesday, September 06, 2005 at 12:21 AM.
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