Eerie Saturday Night in the French Quarter

[PwrInTheBld]

What Is It Going To Take For These People?????

[Guest Zayit]

I heard yesterday many people are scared. Two Policemen committed suicide, 200 have walked off the job.

This explains the principality of evil spirits still reigning down there, on a T-shirt of the bartender still there in the French Quarter:

"How much fun can I have before I go to hell?

[Leonard]

Never had time to stop in New Orleans except for a quick McDonald's burger and a fill-up of gasoline. Thank goodness!!!!

[jamie]

Some people love wallowing in the mire, hell is their home.

[Constant]

So, is Las Vegas "sin city" next?

[Guest Zayit]

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet, and even as they did not like to retain G-d in their knowledge, G-d gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient, being filled with all unrighteouness, fornication, wickedness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, backbiters, haters of G-d, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful, who knowing the judgment of G-d that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. ~ Romans 1

[apothanein kerdos]

I think the tragedy in New Orleans is the best example of the total depravity of man. Man without order and/or God will always revert to the lowest form of humanity. Doesn't matter if this occured in New Orleans, Miami, New York, Dallas, or small town Kansas....what you are viewing isn't the "evil spirits in New Orleans" but the fallen nature of man. What you see occuring is what you and I are without the grace of Christ.

[Keith]

That's just beyond sad.

Has everyone read the article Nebula posted in this forum? I think it should be read by everyone, so you'll see me linking to it frequently for awhile.

A Man-Made Disaster

[Guest Zayit]

I think the tragedy in New Orleans is the best example of the total depravity of man. Man without order and/or God will always revert to the lowest form of humanity. Doesn't matter if this occured in New Orleans, Miami, New York, Dallas, or small town Kansas....what you are viewing isn't the "evil spirits in New Orleans" but the fallen nature of man. What you see occuring is what you and I are without the grace of Christ.

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So you don't believe in the reason that Paul gave to put on the whole armour of G-d?

6:11

Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

6:12

For we wrestle not against * flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

As Yod wrote in another thread it seems that whole town was corrupt, from the top down, including those who were entrusted to keep the law. I'd say that would be spiritual wickedness in high places. It is a known fact of that New Orleans 'was' the VooDoo capitial of America, this same spirit has kept the island of Haiti under control for centuries. This is not Christianity , although many will try and convince otherwise.

Check out these little known facts ( outside the area) of New Orleans:

Just a quick summary.

1.DRUGS ~The French Quarter is the site of the first officially licensed pharmacist to practice in the United States. Louis Dufilho was licensed in 1816 and opened his shop in 1823.New Orleans, the French Quarter was the site of the very first Pharmacy in the US. If you know your greek, our word Pharmacy comes from that language, Pharmakeia which in the KJV is translated as sorceries.

As in REV.9:21

Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. (I think all four discribe NO )

2.GAMBLING~ Gambling's birthplace was not Las Vegas as many assume. The dice game craps was introduced to the new world in New Orleans. The card game of poker also developed its modern rules on riverboats shuttling between New Orleans and St. Louis. And in another high stakes confrontation, champion boxers John Sullivan and James Corbett squared off in the city in the state's first legalized prizefight in 1892

3. WORSHIP OF IDOLS ~ New Orleans voodoo is a religion based on spiritual beliefs carried to the colony by slaves from West Africa. Those beliefs merged with Catholicism in Louisiana and the renowned voodoo queen Marie Laveau was a devout Catholic who went to mass every day.

NO, is the site of a museum ( not to mention all the private residences) that contain altars to other gods. The museum is full of altars laden with offerings of liquor, totems or "ju jus" including skulls and dolls and other representations of reverence for the pantheon of voodoo spirits. A continuously running video also details current practice of voodoo in the city.

4.SEX AND FORNICATION~ SODOMY AND GOMORRAH~ There's more to Mardi Gras than meets the eye. The annual rite goes back to the 18th century in Louisiana and has recently become grandly memorialized and celebrated. There is even a museaum to glorify it. The majority of the artifacts concern the current "practices" both in New Orleans and in Cajun Country, but there is also a section on the European roots of carnival and its relation to Christian and pagan rituals.

I don't think I have to explain all that Mardi Gras intails do I? But the source it Christianity.

Now do you think NO was just like any other town?

[mrs]

I think the tragedy in New Orleans is the best example of the total depravity of man. Man without order and/or God will always revert to the lowest form of humanity. Doesn't matter if this occured in New Orleans, Miami, New York, Dallas, or small town Kansas....what you are viewing isn't the "evil spirits in New Orleans" but the fallen nature of man. What you see occuring is what you and I are without the grace of Christ.

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I agree with you completely.Through the grace of God we now have the ability to love our neighbor as ourself, and to put Him first in everything.