This one's actually from New Orleans

[ysengrin]

Another article about Katrina-as-God's-Fist, this one from the American Family Association, a much better known church:

Rev. Bill Shanks, pastor of New Covenant Fellowship of New Orleans [in Metairie], also sees God's mercy in the aftermath of Katrina -- but in a different way. Shanks says the hurricane has wiped out much of the rampant sin common to the city.

The pastor explains that for years he has warned people that unless Christians in New Orleans took a strong stand against such things as local abortion clinics, the yearly Mardi Gras celebrations, and the annual event known as "Southern Decadence" -- an annual six-day "gay pride" event scheduled to be hosted by the city this week -- God's judgment would be felt.

"New Orleans now is abortion free. New Orleans now is Mardi Gras free. New Orleans now is free of Southern Decadence and the sodomites, the witchcraft workers, false religion -- it's free of all of those things now," Shanks says. "God simply, I believe, in His mercy purged all of that stuff out of there -- and now we're going to start over again."

Thanks to porsupah for pointing this one out. A quick googles shows that the Rev. Shanks has been quoted many, many times across the net, including Harper's online.

I would like to take a moment to point out that God, in all his mercy, has also purged Rev. Shanks from New Orleans.