Quote: r3x29yz4a said: i'm still waiting for the "new orleans was full of sinners and god was wiping them out speech" from robertson/fallwell, like how they blamed 9/11 on feminism.
Rather than look at the negative in religion, perhaps we can look at the positive.
Reuters has an inspiring story of an evacuee who saw a "religious message" in Katrina:
In the last week, Joseph Brant lost his apartment, walked by scores of dead in the streets, traversed pools of toxic water and endured an arduous journey to escape the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in his hometown New Orleans.
On Sunday, he was praising the Lord, saying the ordeal was a test that ended up dispelling his lifelong distrust of white people and setting his life on a new course. He said he hitched a ride on Friday in a van driven by a group of white folks.
"Before this whole thing I had a complex about white people; this thing changed me forever," said Brant, 36, a truck driver who, like many of the refugees receiving public assistance in Houston, Texas, is black.
