Tom Rants

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The utterly repulsive Rev. Bill Shanks, pastor of New Covenant Fellowship of New Orleans had this to say:

...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.»

The New Orleans pastor is adamant. Christians, he says, need to confront sin. «It's time for us to stand up against wickedness so that God won't have to deal with that wickedness,» he says.

I think he needs to have reference to Matthew 7:

1Judge not, that ye be not judged.

2For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

3And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

4Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?

5Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

Or First John 4:

20If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

21And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

Perhaps he might consider the words of Jesus in Matthew 10 and instead of condeming go minister to the lost sheep of his own city:

6But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

7And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.

8Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

And is New Orleans that much worse than Sodom that the Lord wouldn't at least look for ten righteous men before destroying the city? I guess the Reverend Shanks must have had an awfully small flock.

2 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.
33 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.