Voodoo- Louisiana- Retribution?

If that is the case for Gustav coming to Louisiana then what is the excuse for all the hits in Florida? Why is Charleston AKA the Holy City, in the path of Hanna? That is just a story some people are trying to use to scare other people into their religion. Making them think it is the wrath of God causing the storms. My family lives in New Orleans and my aunt is one of the most God fearing people I know, the love God and Jesus more than life itself and has always lived her life as such, same as much of my family in New Orleans (and I have a large one). Voodoo is a fraction of what New Orleans is about and anyone who wants to use it as an excuse for these storms needs a hobby and a vacation.

Sorry but you hit a sore spot so this might sound more like a rant but I really needed to get it out. My Grandmother died after the Katrina/Rita evacuation and she was nothing short of holy, God didn't punish her with those storms.

I don't honestly know who would have started a rumor like that. Unfortunately I tend to believe its some kind of biased religious or a hate group. Most people no matter what religion they are believe in a loving God. Not a God that puts his vengeance upon his children. I believe this with every inch of my soul. God teaches by example. If in fact there is something to black magic. WHich I think there is. It isnt God that is doing it. I am sure of that. Black magic involves satan or Idolistic worships. If anything, thats what is doing it. Not GOD. dl

I think its just ridiculous....especially considering the fact that Vodou is NOT Black Magic.....

I dont think it is some sort of cosmic retribution at all
I think thats all just some silly story made up because need something to blame for the tragedy
surely the cosmos wouldnt make all those innocents suffer because of the acts of Voodooins in that area

Superstition. I do not think God operates that way. I do not see Him sitting high and mighty on his throne, lightening bolts in hand zapping all the mislead, mischosen people. I am sure that wrong practices grieve Him, but unless he sends a warning by a prophet, I do not believe that God is going to destroy people willy nilly. He did not do this in the time of Jonah, and Ninevah was certainly a sinful city. He sent a prophet to preach repentance, and the people listened. After the flood of Noah God sent the rainbow to promise that the world would never again be destroyed by floods. If God were in the business of destroying communities for evil, it would be a whole lot more than New Orleans. He lets us destroy ourselves by making dark and uninformed choices.

I seriously doubt that. Weather is weather. It happens. If you live near water you're at risk of getting flooding. In Katrina, many people didn't leave because they wanted to stay with their homes and pets. Many had no way to get out. There was a whole set of things that have since been addressed; and, fortunately, Gustav did not do what Katrina did.

There are high-risk areas and lower risk areas when it comes to storms, and people in Louisiana live in a high-risk area. If they moved to, say, Massachusetts they wouldn't have quite as many hurricanes to worry about.

I do not think it has anything to do with Voocoo/Black Magic.

NOpe dont think that the voodoo and things like that has gone on for hundreds of years and only the poeple that do it beleive in it so I dont think God has anything to do with it and as I am seeing a few breaks in levee but not like before

Yikes, I can't help thinking how totally ridiculous that sounds and no that is just superstitious mumbo jumbo. If people are linking voodoo/black magic and the reason for Katrina, then Gustav, then maybe those same people should link all the fires in California, the floods in the mid-west, etc., etc to voodu/black magic, pagan/wiccan practices..Or how about catastrophic earthquakes like they had in China???....As far as I know there haven't been any dire natural catastrophes in Massachusetts, where there is a large pagan/wiccan population once more.....ironically in Salem where the biggest witch hunts were done in the late 1600/1700s

I heard this more than one time when I was working on the coast after Katrina. I do believe that God punishes us for doing wrong, but he isnt going to punish you for what I did wrong or vice versa. Besides, too many people blame God for things that happen bad when it is only a product of THEIR bad choices.

I do not believe that God is responsible for what happened to NOLA. NOLA is responsible for that. They knew for ages that the levies wouldnt hold if they had a bad storm, and they chose to spend their money elsewhere. (Well, at least the politians did)