Back in 2005, Senator Hank Erwin of Alabama had proposed (among others), that hurricane Katrina was God inflicting punishment on the sinners which lived in New Orleans. Similar comments were made during other disasters which struck major cities (since presumably the most sin occurs in such places, like Ft. Lauderdale).

But now with the more recent tornado tragedies, why aren’t they talking about the evident God-Summoned sin-clensing that must have been sent to the heathen states of OK and NC? Perhaps there was something awful going wrong there as well. Or perhaps it was God going after fundameltalist evangelicals who have been spending too much time bible thumping and criticising than doing the perported prime Christian directive of caring for their fellow man.

No, this isn’t a slam on the grief and sadness over the destruction that’s plagued those regions over the past few weeks. It’s indeed a horrible event that people should stand together and help them stabilize and rebuild.

What would be more horrid that using it as a time to comment that “they must have deserved god’s wrath”. So why do it when a major city is hurting? Next time around, they should save their bible waving chest thumping fire and brimstone crap and be Christian and send aid, volunteers, and workers - the way that they are now into the damaged regions.

I just can’t stand it when one group is deemed more worthy to help than others. But that’s another rant.