GOD'S WRATH BACK IN THE NEWS
When Katrina submerged NOLA there were a lot of amateur prophets declaring that God was angry at the city for its immorality. On Monday Mayor Ray Nagin, in a Martin Luther King, Jr Day speech, suggested that the 2005 hurricanes were signs that "God is mad at America" for the war in Iraq and at black communities, too, for their violence and political infighting.

Of course, Greenpeace is probably thinking that God is mad at everyone for global warming.

Maybe they're all right. Violence is evil -- whether it is in Iraq or the hood. And our sloppiness with creation is rooted in evil, too. That, however, doesn't necessarily mean that God is mad at us. And I'm not sure that anyone has actually heard from God specifically on this hurricane matter. It could be that we're just reaping what we've sown.