On Matters Divine

Talking about religion is always a risky subject, there is a real chance I will really leave someone pissed off and lets face it, the religious crazies, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim - take your pick, they are loony. (Not to say that say, your average Hindu is a bad person, the overwhelming majority are, I am sure, very good and decent people, but when some Mosque gets blown up in India well, violence seldom begets peace.)

Anyway I bring this up because a couple years ago (September 18, 2006 to be specific) a pastor, fellow by the name of Pastor John Hagee (I can already hear some people moaning) said "Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans... New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God... there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came."

Since Hagee's little rant against The Big Easy was divine punishment there have now been two major oil accents in the Gulf of Mexico that I think are worth bringing up. One is the well known Deep Water Horizon well, the other, an oil platform called Vermilion just exploded this morning, no word yet on how much (if any) oil is escaping. (Allegedly no oil is getting out, but well, in theory only five thousand barrels a day came out of the Deep Water Horizon, in fact it was closer to sixty thousand barrels a day.)

So I have a question for Hagee because I'm a little confused. Are these oil spills the work of divine retribution because New Orleans still has not mended in her ways? Are they divine retribution for too much use of oil? Are they divine retribution for kicks? Maybe they are big oil's retribution for the fact that we had so much fun beating up on old Tony Hayward? If so what was the Kalamazoo oil spill retribution for? The American revolution? (!)

Anyway maybe, just maybe these oil spills are our planet's retribution for being such appallingly lousy stewards of what really is, or was, a pretty pleasant place to inhabit. Anyway a hurricane is working it's way up the Atlantic Seaboard, I hope another one of these hurricane's floods Hagee's home, except I don't think he would understand the irony.