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 Where Was God When
Katrina Hit New Orleans?
by Nic Samojluk
What can we say about the so called "Acts of God," which in fact should be rather labeled as "Act of Nature"? Is God is reponsible for them. Does He arbitrarily send them as punishment for people who are worse sinners than the rest of humanity? Does the Devil also play a role in these incredibly destructive acts which leave sometimes hundreds or even thousands dead? Can we blame those acts on "Climate Change" resulting from human activity? Let's consider the following statements:
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... Mystery does not sit well with us, nor random tragedy, nor helplessness in the face of a ruthless wind, so we place our trust in better sensors and protocols and reinforced concrete and roofs designed to rebuff the gale. The cataclysm of Katrina has been blamed on everything from SUV drivers to coastal developers to the Army Corps of Engineers, in a strange rite of reassurance: if man has the power to cause these calamities, maybe he would have the power to prevent them. The speed with which the commentariat moved from covering an actual storm to a political one—hurricanes don't kill people, inept bureaucrats kill people—suggests which subject is more comfortable discussing. Somehow human nature, even at its most disturbing, is less scary than Mother Nature at her most murderously cavalier, thousands dead in a single deep breath.
Then there is the response of those convinced they know God's Politics and are just as intent on seeing the guilt assigned. An ultraconservative Israeli rabbi declared that Katrina was retribution for U.S. support of the Israeli pullout from Gaza. Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam called Katrina judgment for the Iraq war. The Christian Civic Group of Maine noted that the hurricane struck just as New Orleans was planning a huge gay-rights festival. A Kuwaiti official said, "The Terrorist Katrina is One of the Soldiers of Allah." There was, in other words, broad agreement in some far-reaching quarters that Katrina represented God's punishment, just no consensus on the sin ...
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This reminds me of what Jesus said about the tragic death caused by disasters. His disciples wanted to know whether there was a direct relationship between the deaths of the victims of an accident that had taken place and their sinfulness. The Lord responded that if people did not repent, they would all perish, and reassured them that said victims were not more sinful than others who had survived.
History tells us that when the Roman army surrounded the city of Jerusalem a few decades after Jesus' death, approximately 2 million Jews perished, and that Christians were able to flee the city before the slaughter took place. What Jesus predicted took place with remarkable accuracy. I conclude from this that very likely the victims of Katrina were not more guilty than the rest of Americans.
Nevertheless, unless we as a nation repent of our sins, we will all perish. One of the great sins we are guilty of is the murder of over 40 million of innocent babies as a result of the legalization of abortion. To this we can add the tolerance of pornography, which incites those addicted to it to engage in unhealthy sexual behavior, which in turn increases the number of unwanted pregnancies and the resultant abortions.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1105669,00.html
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