{"id":403,"date":"2005-09-28T19:02:21","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T23:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/28\/30-percent-chance-of-brimstone\/"},"modified":"2005-09-28T19:02:21","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T23:02:21","slug":"30-percent-chance-of-brimstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/28\/30-percent-chance-of-brimstone\/","title":{"rendered":"30 percent chance of brimstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/Soddom_Gomorrah.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" alt=\"Soddom Gomorrah\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alabama state senator joins noted meteorologists Al Qaeda, Pat Robertson&#8230; blames Gulf storms on gambling. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/birminghamnews\/index.ssf?\/base\/news\/112790008991370.xml&#038;coll=2\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hurricane Katrina and other storms that battered the Gulf Coast were God&#8217;s judgment of sin, according to state Sen. Hank Erwin, R-Montevallo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast have always been known for gambling, sin and wickedness,&#8221; Erwin wrote this week in a column he distributes to news outlets. &#8220;It is the kind of behavior that ultimately brings the judgment of God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After touring Gulfport and Biloxi, Miss., and Bayou La Batre, Erwin said he was awed and humbled by the power of the storm. But he wasn&#8217;t surprised.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Warnings year after year by godly evangelists and preachers went unheeded. So why were we surprised when finally the hand of judgment fell?&#8221; Erwin wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama state senator joins noted meteorologists Al Qaeda, Pat Robertson&#8230; blames Gulf storms on gambling. From here: Hurricane Katrina and other storms that battered the Gulf Coast were God&#8217;s judgment of sin, according to state Sen. Hank Erwin, R-Montevallo. &#8220;New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast have always been known for gambling, sin and wickedness,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idiotic","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}