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#41 Postby Skywatch_NC » Thu Oct 06, 2005 3:08 pm

caribepr wrote:
therealashe wrote:http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9600878/ Here is the link on MSNBC.



Hurricane Katrina damaged the city of New Orleans in what seems like biblical proportions. Some say the human suffering alone could be a part of God's plan.

Reverend Franklin Graham, son of Reverend Billy Graham, suggests the city was targeted because of the city's sinful reputation.

At a speech in Virginia, he said, "This is one wicked city, OK? It's known for Mardi Gras, for Satan worship. It's known for sex perversion. It's known for every type of drugs and alcohol and the orgies and all of these things that go on down there in New Orleans. Reverend Graham continued, "There's been a black spiritual cloud over New Orleans for years. They believe God is going to use that storm to bring revival.



There is more at the link I posted above.


Well, even though I think it's rotten focusing, being a word freak I will say that there is a huge difference in saying God MADE that storm to bring rivival and God is going to USE that storm to bring revival. One is about cause, the other about (possible) effect.
Of course, I think the revival needs to be in bread and bricks at this moment and let God sort out the rest.


Bricks?...
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#42 Postby GalvestonDuck » Thu Oct 06, 2005 4:47 pm

Skywatch_NC wrote:Bricks?...


As in rebuilding would be my guess.

Wonder if some of these guys have ever been to New Orleans (ok, duh, I'm sure the archbishop on NOLA has) and do they realize it's about more than just Mardi Gras, voodoo, and the French Quarter. Do they understand what Mardi Gras is anyway and what many of us Catholics do afterwards?

And if it was really a way to punish the sinners, why was the French Quarter spared?
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#43 Postby Deb321 » Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:42 am

God did not cause this Mother Nature did
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#44 Postby breeze » Sat Oct 08, 2005 5:28 pm

GalvestonDuck said:
And if it was really a way to punish the sinners, why was the French Quarter spared?


Exactly - not quite a Sodom and Gomara scenario!
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#45 Postby f5 » Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:29 pm

next time NO maybe sodom&gomorrah they want Casinos which is another sin
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#46 Postby oneness » Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:43 am

Reminds me of the 'news' story where Tammy Faye Bakker claimed Hurricane Hugo was God's retribution for the treatment of his goodly servant Jim Bakker (...yep, that bollocks was so silly it was re-telecast in prime-time news on the other side of the globe lol).
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#47 Postby Javlin » Fri Oct 14, 2005 11:36 am

I had a religious relief worker in my place of business the other day touting the same line after some conversation.All I could do was say to myself "Whatever".Thinking next time something happens in your town should I call you sinful also.
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#48 Postby streetsoldier » Sat Oct 15, 2005 1:36 am

One wonders what happened to...

"Judge not, lest ye be judged"?

Are we paying attention, ladies and getlemen? :larrow:
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#49 Postby sunny » Sat Oct 15, 2005 8:14 am

streetsoldier wrote:One wonders what happened to...

"Judge not, lest ye be judged"?

Are we paying attention, ladies and getlemen? :larrow:


FINALLY - you go , Bill!
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#50 Postby quandary » Sat Oct 15, 2005 10:43 am

I thought we were past the days when people said things like this.
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#51 Postby HurryKane » Sat Oct 15, 2005 11:35 am

quandary wrote:I thought we were past the days when people said things like this.


Oh, far from it. Some of the crap being said on a message board I normally post on was just unreal a day or two after the storm--and these were people who are from Mississippi saying the Coast rats deserved it because we're sinning casino-lovin' heathens.

They got their behinds handed to them in short order by the rest of the folks who can think for themselves, though. But those kind of people are everywhere. I can only hope they don't ever have to have someone tell them they deserve that kind of pain and suffering.
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#52 Postby Ixolib » Sat Oct 15, 2005 8:33 pm

HurryKane wrote:
quandary wrote:...The coast rats deserved it because we're sinning casino-lovin' heathens.


'Ya mean we're not??!! :lol: :lol:
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#53 Postby Skywatch_NC » Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:35 am

Like this topic... http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=76111

Maybe it would be best if this topic were to put to bed now, too...instead of on and on and on...beating a dead horse so to say :wink:

So apparently no one else concurs that this particular topic should be locked...
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#54 Postby lester » Mon Oct 17, 2005 4:53 pm

HurryKane wrote:I vote we strap him to a bridge in the path of the next hurricane. Then God will get a chance to do as he sees fit with him.

That'll teach him a lesson :grrr:
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#55 Postby sunny » Mon Oct 17, 2005 4:59 pm

Skywatch_NC wrote:Like this topic... http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=76111

Maybe it would be best if this topic were to put to bed now, too...instead of on and on and on...beating a dead horse so to say :wink:

So apparently no one else concurs that this particular topic should be locked...


I concur, Eric.
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#56 Postby Skywatch_NC » Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:51 pm

sunny wrote:
Skywatch_NC wrote:Like this topic... http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=76111

Maybe it would be best if this topic were to put to bed now, too...instead of on and on and on...beating a dead horse so to say :wink:

So apparently no one else concurs that this particular topic should be locked...


I concur, Eric.


Glad to hear that someone does, Cindy. Seems you and I are the only ones who do though. :wink:
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#57 Postby streetsoldier » Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:53 pm

You two aren't alone...thinking about it carefully. :)

(Read: "Get the hint, folks?") :larrow:
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#58 Postby Skywatch_NC » Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:22 am

Does his best impersonation of Radar O'Reilly: ATTENTION PERSONNEL!! :)
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#59 Postby CentralFlGal » Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:23 am

The only thing that comes to mind after reading this strange drivel is Jimmy Buffet's song, "Fruitcakes".

Religion, religion.
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa

Where's the church, who took the steeple
Religion's in the hands of some crazy a$$ people
Television preachers with bad hair and dimples
The God's honest truth is it's not that simple

It's the Buddhist in you, it's the pagan in me
It's the Muslim in him, she's Catholic ain't she?
It's that born again look, it's the wasp and the Jew
Tell me what's goin on, I ain't got a clue


Okay, back to Wilma Watch mode...
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