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[dreamer_easy]

If you're not feeling sufficiently upset, have a peek at this pro-life "news" site which suggests Katrina is a punishment for Mardi Gras and voodoo. There's no explanation from the pro-lifers of why the Almighty would create a natural disaster to which children are especially vulnerable. (I particularly object to my name being taken in vain.)

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[matthewwolff.livejournal.com]

Yeah, because a just god punishes the elderly, infermed, poor, and children so that he can get at those Mardi Gras people, who never really came to town in the first place.

[richardjgrayson.livejournal.com]

Note my total lack of surprise. My only question was "when" rather than "if" that stupidity would start.

[stephen-dedman.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I couldn't help but remember the maps that showed the paths of hurricanes through Florida in 2000-2004 - completely missing the electorates that voted for Gore, and clobbering those that went to Bush. I know the states that were hit by Katrina went to Dubya in 2004... but of course, it could all just be a coincidence...

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Morons. As I said to james_bow in his blog, what part of Jesus's words in Luke 13 (http://bible.gospelcom.net/passage/?search=Luke%2013:1-5;&version=31;) do these people not understand? Tragedies like this ought to make people examine their own hearts and lives, not go around pointing the finger at others.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Wise words which I'll mentally bookmark when encountering this rubbish in future.

[hiraethin.livejournal.com]

I think it's pretty clear that if God's going to go around obliterating cities based on some "sufficient level of sin among a suffient percentage of the population" (what else could it be?), he's being mighty slow, mighty inefficient, and mighty inaccurate - considering I could name at least a half-a-dozen places more "sinful". He seems to have missed a whole bunch o' sinners, too - based on the reports of looting and violence in flooded New Orleans. I'm sure the response to my assertion would be the usual "God moves in mysterious ways" ("I don't have an answer, but I'm sure there is one, and who are you to question me - I mean God?")

Second-guessing God to blame sinners for natural disasters is for people who should be spending their time helping their fellow men and women - like good Christians, or good people of any faith or lack thereof.

[jvowles.livejournal.com]

One of these days, I'm going to go a little bit mad, and proclaim myself God's Avenger. I will borrow a samurai sword and go Kill Bill on all these self-righteous fuckers.

The very FIRST thing that will be restored to New Orleans will be Bourbon Street.

[cherrypep.livejournal.com]

Blimey, when it's not the bloody Neorandian Libertarians it's the pro-lifers.

They're all nuts and they can all bugger off and play in the sandpit. Quietly.

[hnpcc]

I mentioned this to a friend of mine on the weekend. Back in '94 (?), when the fires were heading down through the National Parks towards Sydney, he was skiing in Colorado. On the ski lift he encountered a lovely woman who proceeded to tell him that the fires were God's punishment for the Mardi Gras.

(He wasn't sure what surprised him more, her coming out with that or that she was American and knew that there were fires in Sydney.)

But yeah, short version: obviously the Evangelical version of God hates Mardi Gras. It's probably the costuming.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Good grief, have the Libertarians had something bizarre to say about Katrina too, or is this just general annoyance? :-)

[cherrypep.livejournal.com]

Oh, it has been party time on the blogs as far as I can see, particularly wonderful in that it's virtually impossible to tell Randroids from trolls.

I've seen too many comments along the lines of the "responsible individuals ensure their own survival, the government has no responsibility to save the lazy" variety.

But here's my favourite so far:

"Speaking purely in economic terms, the situation in New Orleans is actually quite positive, long-term. Yes there is the destruction of the port and that's bad, but consider: 80% of the population evacuated. The remaining 20% stayed, either because they didn't have the means to leave, or because they were just foolish; how much of each is a guess.
But in EITHER case, you have to consider that these people were essentially surplus. In other words, the least-functional 20% of the population of New Orleans has been eliminated. That obviously INCREASES the overall functionality of the New Orleans population. [...] disasters like this have ALWAYS served to help weed out the less competent."

Bleurgh.

O_o

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

This is either a troll or B Ark material who'd be the first to be eaten by the other survivors.

Re: O_o

[cherrypep.livejournal.com]

Tastes like chicken ;)