{"id":5120,"date":"2005-08-31T09:24:43","date_gmt":"2005-08-31T13:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5120"},"modified":"2005-08-31T09:24:43","modified_gmt":"2005-08-31T13:24:43","slug":"seeing-messages-in-the-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/seeing-messages-in-the-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing messages in the clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t already, take a look at the image an anti-abortion group is sending around in the hopes of proving something<\/i> about Hurricane Katrina, God’s wrath, and the group’s political agenda. Here’s the picture, via Pandagon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The message was crafted by people at Christian Life and Liberty.net, who are convinced Americans are responsible for the storm’s devastation. The group’s email explained:
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The image of the hurricane above with its eye already ashore at 12:32 PM Monday, August 29 looks like a fetus (unborn human baby) facing to the left (west) in the womb, in the early weeks of gestation (approx. 6 weeks). Even the orange color of the image is reminiscent of a commonly used pro-life picture of early prenatal development (see sign with picture of 8-week pre-born human child below). In this picture, and in another picture in today’s on-line edition of USA Today*, this hurricane looks like an unborn human child. <\/p>\n

Louisiana has 10 child-murder-by-abortion centers – FIVE are in New Orleans
\nwww.ldi.org (‘Find an Abortion Clinic [sic]’)<\/p>\n

Baby-murder state # 1 – California (125 abortion centers) – land of earthquakes, forest fires, and mudslides
\nBaby-murder state # 2 – New York (78 abortion centers) – 9-11 Ground Zero
\nBaby-murder state # 3 – Florida (73 abortion centers) – Hurricanes Bonnie, Charley, Frances, Ivan, Jeanne in 2004; and now, Hurricane Katrina in 2005<\/p>\n

God’s message: REPENT AMERICA !<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I realize that many anti-abortion activists are sincere people who have a strong belief about when life begins, and maintain a firm grip on reality. And then there are these clowns.<\/p>\n

Yes, it’s unbelievably creepy that people at Christian Life and Liberty.net see images in weather patterns that they take very seriously. And yes, it’s bizarre that these people can interpret these imagined likenesses to tell the rest of us what “God’s message” really is. And yes, exploiting a hurricane the day after it ravages a region is about as low as a group can get.<\/p>\n

But the disgusting part of this is that Christian Life and Liberty.net are telling the thousands of people who’ve lost loved ones, seen their homes destroyed, and have found their city on the brink of ruin that this calamity is, in part, their fault.<\/p>\n

The people suffering on the Gulf Coast need a lot of things right now — rescue, relief, maybe a little hope — but the scorn of unhinged fundamentalists isn’t one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t already, take a look at the image an anti-abortion group is sending around in the hopes of proving something about Hurricane Katrina, God’s wrath, and the group’s political agenda. Here’s the picture, via Pandagon. The message was crafted by people at Christian Life and Liberty.net, who are convinced Americans are responsible for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}