Christian 'looters' Destroy Sex Shops In...

[Laudate_Dominum]

[b]Christian 'looters' destroy sex shops in New Orleans[/b]
NEW ORLEANS — Days after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, zealous Christians from several Southern ministries converged on the Big Easy to destroy every sex shop they could find.
"If looters can rob electronics stores, then we can tear down satanic businesses," said Melvin Smith, a minister from Christ Cornerstone Ministries in Tupelo, Miss. His team of 19 Bible institute students methodically gutted a sex shop in the French Quarter, burning the contents in the street. They left a note posted on the wall: "They will call you the City of the Lord - Isaiah 60:14."
Smith and others saw this as a golden opportunity for New Orleans to shed its partying past and be re-born in righteousness.
"I'd like to see a politician stand up for places like this," he said. "People said the looters shouldn't be punished because it was an emergency situation. Well this is an emergency, too. A moral emergency."
Two blocks away another Christian group emptied a tarot card reader shop, piling occult-related material in the street and dousing it with lighter fluid.
"Thank you, Lord," said one as the flames reached 12 feet and higher.
"Amen," said several others, tossing incantation books onto the growing bonfire. The police were nowhere to be seen.
A minister from Alabama who would not give his name said his group was targeting places of "sexual and spiritual deviance." He had already "taken out" seven such businesses. His remaining targets: a psychic reader shop on Burgundy St., two sex shops and a strip club on Bourbon St., and a bookstore with voodoo-related books.
"This hurricane could be the best thing God ever did for New Orleans," he said. •

Edited May 24, 2007 by Era Might

[Brother Adam]

So that means that Satanists are justified in burnnig down churches as well right?

[megrc]

That's kinda funny! I was talking to this lady that owns a Christian bookstore the other day and she was saying something about that, but she thinks that the hurricane is God's way of getting even with the people of New Orleans. I don't think it was right for them to do that, but it is pretty funny.

[jasJis]

It's a Miracle!!!

Notice the signs in the windows? They're ON! I thought there wasn't electricity in New Orleans until weeks later. In fact, they were keeping it off 'cause it could start fires until people got back. Or, by some miracle the electricity was on, so the "looters" can let others know what they're doing.

Or it's a recent photo after they turned electricity back on, it's not days after Katrina, and it's the business owners burnig the clothes that are water or mildew damaged. Note the guy wearing the dust mask.

[Laudate_Dominum]

[quote name='Brother Adam' date='Oct 9 2005, 08:48 AM']So that means that Satanists are justified in burnnig down churches as well right?
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I wonder if this will just help the porn people get more money back from their insurance?

[Jedi_StClaire]

all I'll say is this: its probably not a coincidence that this Hurricane's name (Katrina) means "Pure" or "Purify".


I've been to new orleans once. Its sad that its beauty and history had to be ruined by horrendous sin.

[Paladin D]

The image is edited, look at the burning pile on the bottom-left corner, you can see that it doesn't blend in with the image very well.

[Dudette]

[quote name='Paladin D' date='Oct 9 2005, 01:02 PM']The image is edited, look at the burning pile on the bottom-left corner, you can see that it doesn't blend in with the image very well.
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same with the fire on the right.

[photosynthesis]

I disagree with the comments about God "purifying" New Orleans or punishing it because of its sins. didn't He say in Genesis 18 that he won't destroy the innocent along with the guilty?

[zabbazooey]

'Christian' looters

irony i'd say

[son_of_angels]

What a day, what a day,
for an auto de fe!

[avemaria40]

[quote name='photosynthesis' date='Oct 9 2005, 01:52 PM']I disagree with the comments about God "purifying" New Orleans or punishing it because of its sins.  didn't He say in Genesis 18 that he won't destroy the innocent along with the guilty?
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Yeah, i'm sick of hearing ppl say that it's being punished for erotic stores and abortion clinics, b/c i don't think everyone in the city was looking at naughty stuff and having abortions, also, i wonder if ppl would say that to someone who lost a child or a parent in Katrina? b/c if i was one of those ppl, i probably would yell some not-so-ladylike language at them for judging my family for dying in a natural disaster. Besides, it was going to happen, b/c building a city below sea level, in such a way that the silt can't replenish the ground, is going to make it too weak to survive a hurricane of that magnitude.

[ofpheritup]

[Luthien]

Yeah thats edited...

Saying Katrina was a purification for the sins of New Orleans is like saying the World Trade Center attacks were punishment for the sins of American society...

I just feel like too many innocent people died for that to be a possibility...

*shrugs*

[Paladin D]

[quote name='Luthien' date='Oct 9 2005, 06:34 PM']Saying Katrina was a purification for the sins of New Orleans is like saying the World Trade Center attacks were punishment for the sins of American society...
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Lot of Christians believe this.