{"id":805,"date":"2005-09-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-05T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/in-league-with-the-devil-or-god\/"},"modified":"2005-09-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-05T19:00:00","slug":"in-league-with-the-devil-or-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/theirs\/in-league-with-the-devil-or-god\/","title":{"rendered":"In League With the Devil &#8212; or god"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"HoustonChronicle.com - Some say natural catastrophe was 'divine judgment'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/cs\/CDA\/ssistory.mpl\/nation\/3338642\">HoustonChronicle.com &#8211; Some say natural catastrophe was &#8216;divine judgment&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my belief, <strong>God judged New Orleans for the sin of shedding innocent blood through abortion<\/strong>,&#8221; said Steve Lefemine, [of] Columbia Christians for Life. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We take no joy in the death of innocent people,&#8221; said Michael Marcavage, who was an intern in the Clinton White House in 1999 and now runs Repent America, an evangelistic organization.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But <strong>we believe that God is in control of the weather<\/strong>,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The day Bourbon Street and the French Quarter was flooded was the day that 125,000 homosexuals were going to be celebrating sin in the streets. <strong>We&#8217;re calling it an act of God.<\/strong>&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is almost certain that this is a wind of torment and evil that Allah has sent to this American empire,&#8221; a Kuwaiti official, Muhammad Yousef Mlaifi, wrote Wednesday in the Arabic daily Al-Siyassa under the headline <strong>&#8220;The Terrorist Katrina is One of the Soldiers of Allah &#8230; &#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Perhaps god was after Pat Robertson, the anti-christian. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HoustonChronicle.com &#8211; Some say natural catastrophe was &#8216;divine judgment&#8217; &#8220;In my belief, God judged New Orleans for the sin of shedding innocent blood through abortion,&#8221; said Steve Lefemine, [of] Columbia Christians for Life. &#8230; &#8220;We take no joy in the death of innocent people,&#8221; said Michael Marcavage, who was an intern in the Clinton White &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/theirs\/in-league-with-the-devil-or-god\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In League With the Devil &#8212; or god<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theirs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}