So, Katrina was God's punishment?

Question

I just read an answer that said:

"......second of all He can destroy everything He wants to any second, any minute,He made no mistakes whatsoever..TRY THINKING WHAT WAS GOING ON IN NEW ORLEANS..any guesses..Mardi Gras, the people there were thinking only of Mardi Gras they lost the whole meaning of it..."


I'd like you to read the best answer to this question first, before you answer:
http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AvDq55DgB8My.gsYusDqnl7AFQx.?qid=20060609102812AAyAlrd
It's the most awesome answer I have ever read on Yahoo Answers, and scary enough the answerer speaks truth...

Answer 1

i read the answer and i agree with him, it's sad how heartless and cruel people can be. i bet they wouldn't be saying all that stuff if one of there family members died in a tragedy like that. they would be morning and asking why themselves. i appoligize for all of there stupidity. people sometimes make me sick. i don't believe that "god" had anything to do with either or for that matter any tragedy i do not worship him, however i do believe that it was misterious act and force of nature, that couldn't be stopped or helped. many many people died on the days that this and other disasters have occured and people should be more understanding and helpful to those that where involved in it, but instead they are to busy sitting in there big comfortable chairs saying that they diserved it. what about all the babies that died, did they diserve it too? if you say yes, why what could they have possibly done to diserve that? if you say no they didn't but the adults did, why? how do you know what kind of life they lived. and first and foremost who are you to judge?

Answer 2

I come from the island of grenada and it was hit pretty bad by hurricane ivan. It literally destroyed half the island. And that being said most of the people believe that it was sent by god. Many people also believe their were warning signs that people failed to take heed too. I can't speak for somebody who lived through katrina.....but i do believe in god. Nobody who believes in god or otherwise has the right to say that people deserved katrina or deserved to die. If you believe in god ....god is the only person who judges you in the end. And i do believe it was some sort of a warning, not only to the people of new orleans but to people everywhere. Look at what also happened in asia with the tsunami. It has nothing to do with people where doing bad things......please i live in nyc......bad things happen everywhere all over the world. But i think it had to do more with the fact of how we are treating the earth.....global warming....green house effect. I believe if we keep living in the world like we are right now this is just a preview of what has yet to come. And you don't have to believe in god to believe in global warming......or should i say global warning.

Answer 3

No, Katrina was not God's promise. God promised that he wopuld not destroy the world by flood and I think He also meant all natural disasters.

Besides, hurricane Katrina left the French Quarter and Bourbon Street in new Orleans largely untouched.

Answer 4

This world is controlled by satan, the things that are disasters are not done by God, they are man made. If man had obyed from the beginning the world would be different. The Katrina thing was of satan, we live in an evil world. "Safe in Gods Hands" God is your victory over every stronghold and your confidence over every fear. God is faithfull in little, big and all things. Not everyone in New Orleans died did they?

Answer 5

Not no, but heck no.

Katrina and the devestation of New Orleans is simply the result of building a city BELOW sea level and expecting it to survive such storms. It's the arrogance of keeping it there, and not building up sufficient defenses against the ravages of nature.

In the case of New Orleans, we may not be able to build it up sufficiently to ever protect against increasingly savage storms and a rising sea level due to the tons of garbage we are placing in our atmosphere daily.

It's my opinion that if you pit man against nature, man will most likely lose.

Answer 6

Katrina happened. ( muthical) god had nothing to do with it. I hope that people to blame for most of those deaths are forced to spend a very long time in jail. There was no need for anybody to die during that hurricaine, since there was ample warning for everybody to be evacuated to higher ground, especially the poor and hospitalized ones.

Answer 7

While God CAN intervene in the natural world, He usually does not, and when He does, it's with a spiritual purpose. There was no such purpose here. Those folks were on their own. And remember, anyone who died there believing in Him went straight to Heaven. Hardly a punishment!

Answer 8

The best answer was indeed very good. And it's scary how many quotes he had (I didn't read the other answers)! Coming from Christians... And then some hardcore Christians say atheists are selfish and don't deserve to live, or don't care about other people or about their actions!

Answer 9

These are the same people who called AIDS God's punishment for homosexuality. Odd thing, they had to change their story when it turned out the heterosexuals could get it too. Then it became God's punishment for promiscuity or getting a blood transfusion. Point is these morons wouldn't know God's will if it smacked them it the face.

Answer 10

Nope. It, like the center of world trade destroyed in one hour is only a sign that four hundred years of American history is now over.

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