Coincidence...?

Question

During Hurricane Katrina, only 20% of New Orleans was spared from flooding. Part of this 20% was the "gay district" which contrained all the gay bars/porn shops etc. Why would a 'gay hating' God flood the local GOP building but not the gay porn shops?

I'm in the middle of finding a news article for proof, hang on a second.

Answer 1

Sometimes God does things that we dont understand, but he is in control and loves us. Just trust God, and ask him when you go to heaven, IF you go to heaven that is.

Answer 2

Here's your proof:
http://www.nola.com/katrina/graphics/flashflood.swf

The French Quarter is marked with F.Q. The area on the map to the right of the F.Q. is called the Fauburg Marigny, a neighborhood where mostly people of diverse gender/lifestyles live. You can see that the entire city flooded, except the Quarter, Marigny, and parts of Uptown. The Lower 9th Ward is one of the poorest areas, while the Lakeview area is full of rich people, they all got flooded, not just the poor ones. The parts that flooded were ordinary neighborhoods, full of normal, god-fearing people of low incomes and high income, black, white, yellow, and everything in between. There was no discrimination.

Answer 3

"jumping popcorn" (above) has a good answer.

In the 1993 middle-Mississippi flood, which took place over a month-long period of time, the rising waters sunk the Taco Bell riverboat, parked on the levee in St. Louis, but left the strip joints in East St. Louis, which were at about the same altitude level, alone. So using your logic, you would have to come to a conclusion about God and bad Mexican food, or strip joints.

The initial meaning of "taking the Lord's name in vain" (first and second commandments) had to do with a human stating that he or she had special knowledge of what God wanted. Coming to a conclusion about gays, poor people, or Mexican food, from one incident, is illogical, and it can lead your thinking to a wrong place.

Believe it or not, this is not a religiously-oriented answer. It has to do with what people think and how they think.

Answer 4

Men should not assume that God causes hurricanes, earthquakes, or any other problem. God will intervene on the behalf of His people which by the way are very few and far between, but God does not cause the problems of this world. For Satan is the god of this world and the prince of the power of the air.
Re 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Re 13:7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
Eph 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Eph 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
2co 4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
2co 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Answer 5

What makes you believe that God had anything to do with it? Other than the fact that by saying this you hold some weight to what the idiots and radicals have to say either way? Making yourself no better by proxy... BY THE WAY!

This is a very ignorant question when posed as something that is your personal opinion on the subject like you have done here, including statistics to generalize and manipulate a tragedy that harmed and caused millions of people to suffer things you are probably not mature enough to have to endure....

I don't take lightly to things like this because every year, once a year this threatens my home and my family. You, are an idiot using such things to prove pointless points to no one but yourself corralling idiots to do your dirty work for you! Shame on you!

Answer 6

Very strange, indeed.

It seems god actually gave up the whole weather control thing right about the same time humans figured out what ACTUALLY causes weather patterns.

Let's see... destroy porn shops or destroy the local headquarters of the a group of people who lie, cheat, and steal, yet claim to be god's political party. Which one... hmmmmm.

Answer 7

Maybe it was the Devil who orchestrated the hurricane.

Job 1:12 And the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand." So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD...

...While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house, and behold, a great wind came across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you." Job 1:18-19

Answer 8

Hey listen first of all remember God doesn't hate gays. He loves us all. Althogh he might hate what you did but He can still forgive you. It was probly just a coinsidence that those shops weren't destroyed even though I don't usally believe in coinsidence because I've learn't that evrthing happens for a reason but I'm reallyb not sure bout dis one. Sry:(

Answer 9

The irony is that he flooded the poorest sections. These poor sections contain many uneducated people. Uneducated people are the biggest supporters of this imaginary god. Gays tend to be educated... Hmmm. Maybe god is real and he doesn't want to be idolized...

Answer 10

Maybe 'God' got tired of Pat Robertson's taking 'God's' name in vain all the time by attributing this and that to "God's wrath."

In his book, "The Book of Jewish Values", Rabbi Joseph Telushkin writes that the commandment, "You shall not carry G-d's name in vain" prohibits doing something evil or false in the name of G-d. This, for example, is one of the sins Moslem terrorists commit when they call out Allah Akbar (God is great) while carrying out acts of murder. The same was the case when Yigal Amir, a Jew, assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in the name of God and Judaism.

This also applies to Christian conservatives like Pat Robertson who attempt to speak for 'God' by supposing that devastating natural disasters (like Hurricane Katrina) and the tragedy of September 11th were divine punishments.

Answer 11

God was in fact going for the gay district but it was so windy during the storm that it was difficult to hit.