2006-11-29 05:34:04 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God didn't. Mother Earth is trying to restore balance to the ecosystem in New Orleans. I have nothing against New Orleans or the people that live there, but the measures we've taken to make a swampland habitable has left the area with basically no natural protection against the elements. What happened with Hurricane Katrina is entirely mankind's fault.
Bright blessings!
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2006-11-29 05:48:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
God did not let Hurricane Katrina destroy New Orleans.
I believe that President Bush has at his disposal a weather machine via The Russian Federation that he used to create Hurricane Katrina to kill THREE birds with one stone:
-Effectively disable a large number of African Americans without blame
-Clear out New Orleans residents and disperse them to other cities in order to rebuild New Orleans in a more white collar image
-Have an excuse to ask for an obscene amount of money to play war with
Think about it.
2006-11-30 08:56:49 · answer #2 · answered by Playerdre 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God isn't superman. He's not our personal body guard that protects us from feeling any pain. The sooner people understand this the sooner they can finally understand what God is about. When Adam and Eve where thrown from the Garden they were left to live in a cold and brutish world, and that's life for you. It is fool of pain, turmoil and corruption. Because life is so carnal it is easy for people to fall into life with sin. Sin isn't good. It may give a lot of positive stimulation, but often times sin can create even more pain. Excessive drug use, over eating and overconfidence are examples of sins that can lead a person into a lot of pain and difficulties. I trust you can see how these sins can lead to more pain on a person. Life is already difficult enough, God doesn't want us to go through life inflicting pain on ourselves. That's why he gave Jesus to us in order to give us a way of gaining a more enlightened view of life. Through Jesus and finding God people are capable of having the personal strength to overcome the sins they inflict on themselves and making a better life for themselves. Not to mention that the grace of God allows us to gain the strength to deal with difficult situations. Now life is still brutish. That is the choice were stuck with. Death is inevitable. Everyone dies at some point. Death does not discriminate and it is relentless. The point is that when people die, they have the opportunity to join God. And by following him they can manage to have a much more fulfilling experience on earth and after. Yeah Katrina sucked, but that's life. There'll be many other disasters, some you'll see and some you wont. Be happy for those Christians you mentioned as they would have surely found a much brighter afterlife.
2016-05-23 02:23:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Katrina was a warning to the USA just as 9/11 was. They were warnings that if we do not turn our attention back to God, and forsake the teachings of the false religions, such as Islam, Mormonism, Masons, etc.. We will be judged and judged harshly, very soon.
2006-11-29 07:14:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
New Orleans was not destroyed; it was damaged. We are rebuilding. The levees failed because the Army Corps of Engineers ( your tax dollars) built crappy levees and the Orleans Levee Board failed to do proper inspections. There is no god.
2006-12-01 17:19:49 · answer #5 · answered by Cosmic I 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are several answers to this question...one is that it is prophesied in the bible of great earthquakes, floods, and devestating disasters. God allows these as a result of sin. This world is not our home. If we were comfortable here, we wouldn't long to go home to be with Him. For ex. if you came to my house and I treated you like royalty....you not need to lift a finger for anything...you would never want to leave. However, if you came over and I treated you like crap, smacked you around a bit...you would long to go home and count down the days. That is what our existance here is like.
Another aspect is that I think God created the earth to self-contain itself...even put it in a bubble like a snowglobe (the ozone). I think we messed with too much stuff and it is having an effect on the world as we know it...thus in turn, fulfilling the above stated prophecy.
2006-11-29 05:40:03 · answer #6 · answered by jesus_is_my_prozac 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Good one...
That's the paradoxes we get into when we believe that God is a person or "a Man"...
If God is a "SPIRIT" or a "LAW" or a "Principle" such as "ONE" or "UNITY" or "UNIT" or "SINGULARITY", or "SOURCE" etc....these questions do not come up. Nature is cruel and kind, but not intentionally, intention is an "intellectual" attribute and is Man's, not Nature's. We have to learn to use our brains, (science), to predict these events and eventually, control them. God will not do it for us any more than Henry Ford will make sure that there are no accidents on the road. It is up to us to live "smart" and use our "intuition" and our "logic" and then to have "faith" that we did everything we could to be safe and "pray" that it was enough.
There is still no guarantee...It's a "quatuum World" out there and there is only "probability" and "uncertainty". No religion will guarantee you more than that....If they do, they are lying and are on a "con" to get something from you... money and power usually.
The lesson from Katrina is "don't live on the deltas" or the "flood plains", below sea level and then not expect "floods". And another thing is: do not do anything to "cause the waters to rise above the dykes by engineering short-sightedness and environmental degradation leading to 'global warming' and hence rising of sea levels as the artic ice melts".
God, according to John 1, (in Greek) was the LOGOS (logic as defined by sound, using words), that got mis-translated to "WORD" (in English and "VERBE" or "action" in French), as a "word" could be sold by "illogical" people (literalists and fundamentalists), who rely on "faith" and "prayer" rather than on their God-given "intellect" and "logic".
That a hurricane happened is Nature-ordained. That so many hurricanes happen could be because of "global warming". That New Orleans was destroyed, is Man-ordained. God did not build a city on a "flood plain" and then engineer the terrain and make it a dangerous place to live. Man did that and Man can fix it. The brain comes from GOD!! Man has to USE it to be deemed "SMART" or wise as our self-proclaimed species name states"Homo Sapiens", (the wise homonid)
"It is not those who cry LORD, LORD, who enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but those who do the Will of the ONE!!" (The word used in the Bible is the "FATHER" because Judaism was a Patriarchal society and still is, but God is not a "FATHER", but a SPIRIT or a LOGOS if we are to believe "one part of the BIBLE"...
Keep smiling, and keep a good sense of humour...It will get worse before it gets better. It's not ONE's (God's) fault but our own....
Those who want to hide behind God are going to find that a SPIRIT is not a "THING" to hide behind...."There ain't no hiding place down here" (Gospel song)...."And there's a big rock in the road" (Gospel song), that we are responsible for putting there and that we will have to remove without the "assistance" of GOD....We will have to use our "HEADS"...
Cyril Borg, the Cyborg
2006-11-29 06:04:46 · answer #7 · answered by cyril_borg 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Bad ferret honey, have you ever been to N'awlins? There are more Voo doo headshops than churches. This storm wasnt any certain persons fault. It wasnt god to kill off the sinners, or the president to kill of the blacks, or the mayor to kill off the poor. It was a result of what happens when you submerge an empty bowl into a sink full of water, it floods.
2006-11-29 08:13:56 · answer #8 · answered by Let ME be President! 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why did not all mankind get on their knees and pray for GOD to relent? Because of unbelief. The sentence for New Orleans has not been completed yet. Wait for the next few years.
Many times one righteous person prayed and disaster was abated. Who was the righteous person who could have availed themself to pray for New orleans? Maybe it was you.
Hurricane Katrina was the tool. The Bible says: "It is I Jehovah who brings disaster".
Why does he do that? To bring people to repentance so they can righteously pray to divert the calamities and disaters that will overtake each person.
2006-11-29 05:42:51 · answer #9 · answered by TROLL BOY 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Romans 9:20
But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me like this?"
Ecclesiastes 7:14
When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, a man cannot discover anything about his future.
-Everything that happens is for the Glory of God- and is for Good, even though it does not seem like it at the time- Do you know that these things happen to bring people to God? He draws them to Him through these things too. Because they find refuge in Him!
2006-11-29 05:41:29 · answer #10 · answered by Mandolyn Monkey Munch 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋