Is it wrong to be mad about the people in New Orleans?

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crusader4life:

True…everything happens for a reason, but I’m pretty confident that there’s more to this than God “smiting” the wrong doers. Remember God promised Abraham that He won’t destroy a large city for the sake of a handful of innocent people. God also promised Noah through a sign of a rainbow that he won’t wipe out a whole population ever again.

Did all the people of 9/11 “deserve” to die? or the Tsunami in Thailand? Of coarse not!

God lets suffering happen to us so a greater good can come out. For almost a full year the US was more of a Christian nation after 9/11. The tsunami has many Catholic aid at hand there, meaning a good opportunity for spreading the Faith and the conversion of souls. None of this (I believe and understand) is for smiting the evil doers. That’s like seeing God sinking down to satan’s level (so to speak).

I agree with you that we’re all on thin ice, but it was probably just as bad way back then. Change is happening slowly but surely. It will never happen at once. Out of dark times, many saints are made! Something good is going to happen! Keep that window of hope open!

I thought stuff like that happened in order to test our faith.

God lets suffering happen to us so a greater good can come out.

Even at the cost of so many lives? Even, in the case of 9/11, to make those terrorists go to Hell when they died in those plane crashes? That they, along with the other people that died, can never be redeemed again?

 

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Melanie01:

Well someone is saying no-one gives a tinkers for the victims in NO or the USA, well read your papers and note that your ally liddle old Australia is sending money and the offer of tech assistance has been given.

Having seen my great city at its worst in 1974 when we were flooded (Brisbane), been there done that. Its the clean up that is heart breaking…the stinking mud!

Thanks to Australia.

 

[proudnifi]

New Orleans is not a perfect city, but it is a wonderful city. There are many traditions that I remember. For instance, we would visit nine churches on Good Friday. St. Joseph’s altars were always a big deal. Vibrant Catholic school system. Wonderful food. Interesting and historical architecture.

Even Bourbon wasn’t 100% depravity. Preservation Hall was there; I hope it still is. Some great restaurants, too.

I don’t think bad things happen to good people because of divine retribution. God bless everyone affected by the storm.

 

[Bobby_A.Greene]

Remember it isn’t just New Orleans that is suffering.

I wish the rest of the world’s journalists would remember that salient fact. All I hear in Boston is people trying to blame the hurricane on George Bush (I am not kidding!) and I keep reminding all these Boston liberals that it wasn’t just New Orleans which was devastated by Katrina, and that this is the third hurricane to hit the U.S. this year. All tourists were told to evacuate Key West for last month’s hurricane.

The media (and all those sleazy democrats & liberals) is focusing only on New Orleans just in an attempt to try and stick some mud on the Bush administration. Some nut at 5 a.m. this morning was driving around Boston screaming in his loudspeaker “Defeat Bush Now”, which woke me and several other guys I spoke with today.

It is not just New Orleans and it is journalistically irresponsible for the media to not focus equal attention on other hard hit areas down South.

By The Way: Personally I’ve experienced two hurricanes here in Boston in my life time, and about a dozen blizzards; I’ll take the blizzards anyday.

 

[iserve]

It seems that the question is really about the people who are looting, shooting and causing havoc. I can hardly believe my ears when I hear news reporters saying that the stories about this are racist. What in the name of God gives ANYONE the right to act like this, even after a disaster??? In the tsunami, there were absolutely no reports of such atrocities, even though these people were in the same conditions, heat, flooding, etc. in far greater numbers over a greater area. Where the the Asian looters and rapists if this is, as a few here have pointed out, HUMAN BEHVIOR.

I beg to differ, this is animal behavior, and I would think they ought to be rounded up and put in jail. Hurting others helps nothing, nor is their conditions a valid excuse. Anyone with any sense whatsoever should condemn this behavior and realize that this is a cause for national shame. Our citizens have never been seen in such a disgraceful light. I cannot turn my back on anyone who is in their predicament, but I feel a bit like holding my nose. Defending these criminals is what keeps them in business in the first place. I also wish they would givie second thoughts to presenting themselves with a whining, “everybody owes me” attitude, it certainly doesn’t win the sympathy they seek. The people who touch hearts are the ones who present as suffering and needing, but not demanding, help.