And Katrina did little to no damage to the Quarter where decadence rulex 24-7. So I would hate to think that God missed. What has and will do N.O. in id the very pirate/lawless/decadent mentality that founded it. The attitude remains-laissez le bon temps roulez- and is more important than modernization or maintenance. Everyone knows life here can end with the next hurricane so they hustle and scam and party . The Port Royal mentality is in the DNA of New Orleans.
“...Port Royal mentality is in the DNA of New Orleans...”
Interesting indeed and the speculation that this might be the case caused me to make the association in the first place.
I meant no offense to New Orleans per se. I do think that the Good Lord will eventually have had enough of all us in any city if the majority descends into the vicious (as in vice) abyss in the same manner that mankind finally caused Him to send the flood. However, it is not our place to decide which natural disaster is specifically attributed to the sins of its inhabitants because that would mean we were presumptuous enough to assume we know what God was thinking.
However! we do not have carte blanche to sin and for believers, as I am, God did send the flood because he couldn’t stand to see His beautiful creation ruined by the exact behavior that He had forbidden because it was injurious to us and would poison the succeeding generations irretrievably if not halted altogether.
Or, as your position lays out, (if I interpret you correctly,) try to avoid living in a coastal flood zone or you might end up with an overblown carpe diem attitude as set out in the phrase, “in heaven there is no beer, that’s why we drink it here”.
Probably both interpretations don’t bode so well for mankind and your post thoughtfully forces us to ask the inevitable “which came first” quandary. Was that also the case in Nineveh? Perhaps.