According to nearly everyone, New Orleans got nailed because of sin. This isn’t just the opinion of the evangelicals. It’s the opinion of atheistic liberals as well.
    European papers assert Katrina was the punishment the US received for the sin of failing to sign onto the Kyoto accord. Robert Kennedy Jr. wrote a column saying Katrina happened as a result of and punishment for Gov. Barber’s (R-MS) work against the Kyoto Treaty. Other American Democrats say the sinner was President Bush. He sinned by sending troops to Iraq instead of spending the money on flood control measures in New Orleans.
    Islamic militants believe Katrina was Allah’s punishment for the Iraq war. Others suggest the hurricane was God’s punishment on the U.S. for cooperating in the removal of Jews from the Gaza strip.
    A Catholic pointed out four years ago that Galveston, on the other side of the bay, was destroyed by a category-four hurricane that arrived in 1900 after the city hosted a Mardi Gras with a costume theme of ‘Beelzebub and the Devils.’ (http://www.spiritdaily.org/New-world-order/neworleans.htm)
    Ryan Lee points out that Katrina, the name means pure, struck New Orleans on the feast of the beheading of John the Baptist, just two days before the scheduled start of the 34th annual Southern Decadence festival, a six-day public homosexual orgy that New Orleans was supposed to host from August 31 to September 5th . The Baptist, you will remember, was beheaded for having told the king to stop debauching himself with his brother’s wife.
    So, no matter who you ask, everyone seems to agree that New Orleans had it coming. The primary difference between all of these commentators is “Why?” The Christians think New Orleans got slammed because the inhabitants of the city sinned. The atheists, pagans and Muslims think New Orleans got slammed because people outside of New Orleans sinned.
  
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