… but if anyone out there feels compelled to go find the so-called “Man of God” quoted below and break his knees with a baseball bat, I’m sure God will forgive such an act.
Rev. Bill Shanks, pastor of New Covenant Fellowship of New Orleans, also sees God’s mercy in the aftermath of Katrina — but in a different way. Shanks says the hurricane has wiped out much of the rampant sin common to the city.
The pastor explains that for years he has warned people that unless Christians in New Orleans took a strong stand against such things as local abortion clinics, the yearly Mardi Gras celebrations, and the annual event known as “Southern Decadence” — an annual six-day “gay pride” event scheduled to be hosted by the city this week — God’s judgment would be felt.
?New Orleans now is abortion free. New Orleans now is Mardi Gras free. New Orleans now is free of Southern Decadence and the sodomites, the witchcraft workers, false religion — it’s free of all of those things now,” Shanks says. “God simply, I believe, in His mercy purged all of that stuff out of there — and now we’re going to start over again.”
Disgusting.
Rev. Shanks, by the way, fled New Orleans and is currently holed up in Jackson, Miss. No word on how he’s tending to those of his own flock who, presumably, were also the victims of the hurricane — excuse me, of God’s wrath. I suspect he might not return to town for a while, not if his own words become too publicly known.
(via DOF)