I knew it wouldn't be too long before it happened. Someone said that New Orleans has suffered the "Wrath of God" as punishment for being Sin City. God destroyed Southern Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama as a warning to the rest of America to turn from sin. It sounds good, in theory. That is, if you believe in that type of God. However, anyone who knows me knows that I don't go for that type of spiritual mumbo jumbo. I find it hard to believe that God would punish people who have nothing just to prove a point.
The Gulf Coast is one of the loswest socio-economic areas of the country. These people live a lifestyle of poverty. And not because they're lazy, or because they're waiting on Government handouts. Its because that's the culture that they've been born into. That area's been like that for over a hundred years. There's not much industry, not much education, not much of anything that would give the average person much of an opportunity to advance from his/her current status. All most of these people have is agriculture and tourism. That's it. And now they don't have that because God wants to teach the world a lesson.
I'm sorry, I have a HARD time swallowing that. Why is it that God always has to punish the have nots in order to teach a lesson? Why couldn't God destroy Washington DC? Surely there's WAY more sin going on there than there is in New Orleans. It seems as if God has no problem with World Domination, genocide, bringing drugs into the ghetto, bombing other countries, ignoring polution of the Earth or anything like that. What God is more concerned about is gambling, prostitution and getting drunk. And if a few humdren thousand of poor people have to lose everything they have, have had or ever will have, then by golly, that;s EXACTLY what's gonna happen. But who am I to try and figure this out? I'm just a sinner myself. I guess I can expect a hurricane to hit my house anytime now.