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Assertions of supernatural causation

Various political and religious leaders have suggested that Hurricane Katrina was sent as a
divine retribution for the sins of New Orleans, or of the South, or for the United States as a whole.

One of the hundreds of churches and other places of worship in New Orleans devastated by what some consider divine wrath.

Steve Lefemine credited God: "In my belief, God judged New Orleans for the sin of shedding innocent blood through abortion.... Providence punishes national sins by national calamities.... Greater divine judgment is coming upon America unless we repent of the national sin of abortion." (article originally from the Washington Post, as carried on the Houston Chronicle site, also reposted on the ExChristian.net site)

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is said to have asserted in a speech on January
16, 2006, addressing the effects of Hurricane Katrina, "Surely God is mad at America".

Ovadia Yosef, a prominent ultra-Orthodox Israeli rabbi, declared that Hurricane Katrina to be "God's punishment for President Bush's support of the August 2005 withdrawal of Jewish settlers from the Gaza strip". The Jerusalem Newswire, a Christian Zionist online news service, ran an editorial headlined "Katrina— The Fist of God?" stating:

..... For six days thousands of weeping people were pulled and carried from their homes. While this was taking place, a small tropical depression was forming near the Bahamas . . . That small depression had turned into a frightening fiend. . . . Is this some sort of bizarre coincidence? Not for those who believe in the God of the Bible . . . The Bible talks about Him shaking his fist over bodies of water and striking them. While the "disengagement" plan was purportedly the brainchild of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the United States of America has for more than a decade been the chief sponsor and propeller of a diplomatic process that has dangerously weakened Israel ... the Sharon disengagement plan was something that was forced on Israel, primarily by the United States.

This was echoed shortly thereafter by the Jerusalem based Christian Friends of Israel, which wrote, "we know that God only disciplines his own. Perhaps there are enough good men left in the United States that God thinks it worthwhile to send an occasional reminder not to tamper with the Land that He calls His own".

Al-Qaeda in Iraq declared of the hurricane that "God attacked America, and the prayers of the oppressed were answered".

Minister Louis Farrakhan asserted that Hurricane Katrina was "God's way of punishing America for its warmongering and racism". Said Farrakhan, "Maybe God ain't pleased. Maybe this caste system that pits us against each other has to be destroyed and something new and better put in its place."

Gerhard Maria Wagner, briefly an auxiliary bishop of Linz, also attributed Hurricane Katrina to God's ire. James Gill, columnist for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, satirically called for the Pope next to elevate Wagner as Archbishop of New Orleans after protests from Roman Catholics in three New Orleans congregations over the merging of their churches by aging Archbishop Alfred Clifton Hughes. The churches had been depopulated in part by out-migration resulting from Hurricane Katrina. Elevated by Pope Benedict XVI on January 31, 2009, Wagner resigned on February 15, 2009 amidst criticism, in part over his views of Hurricane Katrina.

Pat Robertson was falsely credited with having asserted that God sent Hurricane Katrina as punishment for the selection of Ellen DeGeneres to host the Emmy Awards. Because Robertson had made similar pronouncements in the past, this was believed by many to be a factual report. This article has since been cited as a possible truth in The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.

A rebuttal in About.com's "Urban Legends and Folklore" section, titled Hurricane Katrina: God's Punishment for a 'Wicked' City?, points out (among other things) that the French Quarter was one of the least devastated parts of the city.

Rumors about the New Orleans levees

It is reported that "Many blacks in New Orleans believed that in 2005, during Hurricane Katrina, a levee was intentionally breached by city officials in order to save upper-class mostly white neighborhoods resulting in greater flooding and damage to black neighborhoods in the Ninth Ward". The genesis of this rumor appears to be with the explosive force of the levees breaking.

See also .. Cyclone Catarina from the ISS on March 26 2004.JPG Tropical cyclones portal

* Conspiracy theory .. toddao, the link is inside, you enjoy dunggin' so much, i left it there for you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_theories_regarding_Hurricane_Katrina

NWO? God? Or, just another terrible event? Being, wik, there are many many links in there.