(there is some question to if Robertson actually said what is below. I will keep the post here and update it if he did not say it. It would not shock me one bit if he did)

I have heard numerous arguments from the religious fanatics
about why Katrina was so devastating. Fred Phelps of
Westboro Baptist
Church says it
was because New Orleans is a “symbol of America, seen for what it is: a putrid,
toxic, stinking cesspool of fag fecal matter”. We all know old Fred Phelps is
definitely a bunch of fried short of a Happy Meal.

Today
Pat Robertson shed some light on God’s reasoning for
striking a devastating blow to the Gulf Coast. He told his followers that it was
God’s way of expressing his anger at the Academy of Television Arts and Science
for selecting Ellen Degeneres to host its annual show.

“By choosing an avowed lesbian for this national event,
these Hollywood elites have clearly invited God’s wrath. Is it any surprise that
the Almighty chose to strike at Miss Degeneres’ hometown?”

It amazes me that this nut job has any kind of following at
all. It is also an insult to the people of this country that not only our
President, but so many citizens hold him in such high regards as a moral and
spiritual leader.

From hearing these arguments, I decided it is time to give
an Atheist’s view on the matter. Now while I do not go to church and believe
that the Bible is one of the best authored pieces of fiction of all times, I
have read it cover to cover (both new and old testament). Some things clearly
stand out to me, and now I will offer my opinion on why God used his wrath so
forcefully last week.

God is a merciful and loving. So was his son Jesus who was
sent here to die on the cross for our sins. Since God is so merciful and loving,
he saw the hardship and suffering going on in New Orleans. With its high rate of
poverty and anguish, he decided it was time to deliver those people, who have so
little but for the most part who give so much, into his Kingdom of Heaven. In
turn his oh mighty powerful wrath will leave a state of destruction and chaos
upon the people who shun him for their own political and economical gains.

His wrath will leave people like President Bush, who
constantly says he talks to God, with a nightmare beyond proportions. At that
same time God will be helping those people that Bush has so ignorantly ignored.

The Bible teaches about helping the poor and weak,
something that seems to have been forgotten about as of late. The right-wing
Christian extremists preach hate the same way the Klu Klux Klan teaches racism.
They have turned the preaching’s of Jesus and the lessons of God into a platform
to in which they can push their propaganda of hate.

All these spiritual leaders have done in the wake of this
disaster is to exploit the lives of those that perished. We see the images of
bodies floating down the streets of New Orleans, and see them as images of
suffering. These religious zealots see those images and see them as an excuse to
further promote their hate.

Don’t believe me? Go buy some diamonds that were mined out of Africa by slave
labor and flown here, all at the funding of Pat Robertson’s Operation Blessing.
The same Operation Blessing that is chaired by Robertson and was meant to help
people in times of need. Instead, it just exploits the poor.