If this is your God, then you can have him

Amid the trauma and devestation of Hurricane Katrina, it's good to see so many good Christians out there lending a hand. And those who can't break away to help out in person can at least use this opportunity to spread the good word. Take the web site Repent America (www.repentamerica.com), which I just finished reviewing. The splash page - that's the first page of a site, designed to make a viewer want more - is a color photo of the Manhatten skyline (sans towers) at dawn. There is a large American flag in the background (to show what good Americans these folks are) and the words "Repent America" emblazoned across the whole page. The only other images are the Enter Here buttons, one each for Christians and "all others." So far we have a page suggesting that 9-11 was a result of God's displeasure with the United States and a set of buttons suggestive of the "White's only" signs that used to grace parts of the South - Of course I had to choose door number one (Christians).

All I have to say is that you should be ashamed of yourselves. Not as Christians, but as human beings. On the very first page I found articles advocating the banning books, questioning the veracity of so-called hate crimes, supporting the firing of people based upon their sexual preference, and suggesting that Terri Shivo was aware of what was happening to her (despite what 99% of the medical profession says). Oh, did you know that it was okay to disrupt non-Christian gatherings because it shows the compasion of Christ to tell people what God says, even if they don't want to hear it? But the piece de resistance was an article suggesting that Katrina was evidence of God's wrath at New Orlean's annual Gay Pride celebration, known pithily as Southern Decadence. Where's your compassion of Christ now, you hypocrites?

As an aside, the Christain-based Family Policy Network (www.familypolicy.net) is running a similar article titled Just a Coincidence... Or the Hand of God? And this is the vaunted Chrisitan Conservativism supposedly sweeping America? You people make me sick.