"God is Mad at America" says New Orleans Major

Originally posted by debbiejo
Chocolate...mmmm pretty bad.....Everyone should just move away from there anyway.

I'm not leaving my home. We will rebuild. And we will evacuate again. And we will rebuild. And evacuate again...and rebuild. You get it. I love my home...and my city. I'll always come home.

There is no other place like New Orleans in the whole world. When your whole world was created and has existed here in this city...it's very hard to let it go.

I just wish the damn crappy drivers from out of state here to "help" us would just leave already and get off of our roads....or...to be civil...they should learn to drive the way we drive here in New Orleans.

And Nagin...I liked him at first, but I think he's losing it. He's acting like the 9th ward was wiped out because there were blacks there. No...it was wiped out because it wasn't very well taken care of because the people who lived there (some...not everyone) didn't give a crap about keeping things well maintained. If you have a rickety building about ready to fall apart and is about 100 years old...it's gonna fall apart, even in a small hurricane. If you have a building with strong foundations and upkeep...it's got a better chance of survival.

The weather doesn't give a sh*t what color you are. The immaturity of this is astounding...and I am humiliated to consider some of these people my neighbors.

Yeah....*gets off of soap box*

I think Fog hates white people. White-collared commuters are always complaining about it.

Originally posted by botankus
I think Fog hates white people. White-collared commuters are always complaining about it.

OH and about rebuilding...what if it keeps happening again and again, being a costal city...

frusty

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
did you guys hear what mayor Nagin of New Orleans said about the hurricanes? that god was mad at mankind and that soon new orleans will be a chocolate city again? has he completely lost it?

ya damn right! america is full of heathens.

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
the guy is a frigging idiot. he said god was mad at us for beibg in iraq. he said god was mad at black people for killing each other off. this is not how god works. he is a vengeful god, but not a spiteful god.

of course he's a spiteful god. sodom and gamorah, flooding the entire earth, etc, etc.

This man is a fool to even so much as attempting to comprehend the will of a being which (if he is thinking in the more traditional Christian sense) is beyond his understanding.

Originally posted by Taranis
This man is a fool to even so much as attempting to comprehend the will of a being which (if he is thinking in the more traditional Christian sense) is beyond his understanding.

Well, if you've noticed...Christians have been doing exactly that for thousands of years.

Not just Christians either. THe other two religions that believe in the Old Testament, Judaism and Islam, are guilty of the same thing.

Quite a broad accusation you have there, ma'am. Some people have been trying to apply the moral meanings from scripture to their lives, in an attempt to make themselves better people. And you make it sound like it's some sort of crime.

Though, I will admit that it's easy to stray from the original intended message. Perhaps that's how you get Crusades and other holy wars.

Not that I have any faith in the Good Book myself.

MA'AM??

My profile happens to say MALE. I happen to love beautiful women.

Err, the original intended message contains things like slavery, genocide of non-believers, ritual sacrifice, revenge, incest, self mutilation(not a simple piercing or tattoo...actually chopping off your own body parts)...and eternal damnation for disobeying.

Great message for the children, eh?

I love to hear people say the Bible is a great positive message. It makes it seem like they've ignored the rest of the book. The Bible has to be the goriest, most sickening book ever created.

This guy sounds like Hitler. He has, in the past, talked about jews having too much money and such. Now he's talking about God wants NO to be all black. I don't like it at all.

If he were white, we would be all over his ass.

Whoa. It's a trap!

I never said that the Bible didn't have its flaws. Obviously, if I don't believe in it, I'm bound to find a few. But I'm sure that there are other messages from the Bible that are positive, ArachnoidFreak, and I'm sure you've taken note of them as well.

Of course there are positive messages, particularly in the New Testament(love your neighbor and all that jazz), which still has it's fair share of cruelty, but the Old Testament is nearly twice as long and really doesn't say anything besides "obey god or die" which is followed by numerous acts of sin, and god's retribution. although, he doesn't punish all sins, and sometimes he kills people for the hell of it. no pun intended.

Gotta love deuteronomic history?

Of course! The Bible is a great story, dark, grim, contains every immoral practice ever, from stealing to incest to murder, has a bit of light close to the end, has a bit of a moral somewhere in there, and then polishes off with armageddon!

It just doesn't have any business being taken literally. It's a book, containing stories, some of which have morals, some of which are just violent, not the guide to living a life.

Oh...btw....locals here are now referring to New Orleans as Chocolate City. Apaprently...that southern humor has kicked in. I think that's gonna stick as a nickname. 🙄

Originally posted by Taranis
This man is a fool to even so much as attempting to comprehend the will of a being which (if he is thinking in the more traditional Christian sense) is beyond his understanding.

Originally posted by Arachnoidfreak
Of course! The Bible is a great story, dark, grim, contains every immoral practice ever, from stealing to incest to murder, has a bit of light close to the end, has a bit of a moral somewhere in there, and then polishes off with armageddon!

It just doesn't have any business being taken literally. It's a book, containing stories, some of which have morals, some of which are just violent, not the guide to living a life.

If you want A class violence , put down that game of manhunt and pick up your bible......

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
did you guys hear what mayor Nagin of New Orleans said about the hurricanes? that god was mad at mankind and that soon new orleans will be a chocolate city again? has he completely lost it?

Im no christian but I don't believe God would seek to kill thousands of poor people for somthing which is out if their control. I believe God put down natural disaters to remind us of our mortality.

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
did you guys hear what mayor Nagin of New Orleans said about the hurricanes? that god was mad at mankind and that soon new orleans will be a chocolate city again? has he completely lost it?

If the Christian version of God is real, then I don't think he's mad at us. I think he's just given up. I mean, there's gay marriage, hookers, drugs, murder, feminism (from what I've heard the Bible makes it clear that women getting out of place is a serious no-no), pedophiles and all sorts of shit everywhere, and not only this but those who are still loyal to this hypothetical God are of course basically Nazis. Assuming He exists, he's forsaken us. By logical calculation and conclusion we have basically broken every rule in the book.

As for New Orleans being inhabited largely by blacks...I don't care if it is. To me it doesn't really matter. And as for God being mad at black people, well, they were slaves for about 400 years and for the next hundred or so years afterwards had no rights and were second class citizens. If God's mad at black people then I think he's done all the damage he actually can, short of creating an instantly fatal disease that only black people can get.