Insane Mississippi Senator Blames Storms on Gambling

[Paul Beach]

Dear individuals,

Now that Hurricane Katrina has been blamed on gays, straights, Mardi Gras, Israel, mad scientists, and Stan Jensen, a crazy senator from Mississippi has piped up with his assertion that God was mad at people for gambling.

Straightening his tooth, and causing shame to millions of his fellow Republicans, State Senator Erwin wrote, ""Warnings year after year by godly evangelists and preachers went unheeded. So why were we surprised when finally the hand of judgment fell? Sadly, innocents suffered along with the guilty. Sin always brings suffering to good people as well as the bad."

Fortunately, not all Christians are on board with this madness. A Methodist bishop had this to say, ""Next week, 300 United Methodist clergy from north Alabama are spending a week working together to help folks in trouble on the Gulf Coast. That seems to me a much more appropriate Christian response than that of the senator."

Mrs. Gray concurs.

The article is located at http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/112790008991370.xml&coll=2

Other improbable theories include:

" The al-Qaida in Iraq group hailed the hurricane deaths in America as the "wrath of God," and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan suggested the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina was divine punishment for the violence America had inflicted on Iraq.

Televangelist Pat Robertson said Katrina might be linked to God's judgment concerning legalized abortion, and some rabbis suggested Katrina was a retribution for supporting the Israeli pullout from Gaza."

The story continues with this gem: "Katrina caused flooding of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and Erwin said the Baptists knew they had put themselves on the front lines ministering in a sinful place that could be targeted. He said he didn't think the hard-hit residents of the low-income lower 9th Ward were singled out for especially harsh punishment but were merely in the way, as were the shrimpers in the struggling fishing town of Bayou La Batre on the Alabama coast."

Makes one scratch their head and look around.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Gray