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Various political and religious leaders have suggested that Hurricane Katrina, which killed 1,836 people, was sent as a divine retribution for the sins of New Orleans, or of the South, or for the United States as a whole.〔Douglas Brinkley, ''The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast'' (2006), p. 618.〕 New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is said to have asserted in a speech on January 16, 2006, addressing the effects of Hurricane Katrina, "Surely God is mad at America".〔 Various different reasons have been given for God's wrath. Some victims of the disaster also made attributions to supernatural causes, that they were being punished for their sins, or that God was testing them, or even that the event was "the work of Satan."〔(Some evacuees see religious message in Katrina ), ''MSNBC''.〕 ==Failure to support Israel== Ovadia Yosef, a prominent ultra-Orthodox Israeli rabbi, declared that Hurricane Katrina to be "God's punishment for President Bush's support of the August 2005 withdrawal of Jewish settlers from the Gaza strip".〔 He added that black people died because they did not study the Torah: There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, because there isn’t enough Torah study... Black people reside there (Orleans ). Blacks will study the Torah? (said ), Let’s bring a tsunami and drown them... Hundreds of thousands remained homeless. Tens of thousands have been killed. All of this because they have no God... Bush was behind the (of ) Gush Katif, he encouraged Sharon to expel Gush Katif... We had 15,000 people expelled here (Israel ), and there (America ) 150,000 (expelled ). It was God's retribution. God does not short-change anyone. The ''Jerusalem Newswire'', a Christian Zionist online news service, ran an editorial headlined "Katrina— The Fist of God?" 〔Stephen Spector, ''Evangelicals and Israel: The Story of American Christian Zionism'' (2009), p.154-55. ISBN 0-19-536802-9.〕 stating: For six days thousands of weeping people were pulled and carried from their homes. While this was taking place, a small tropical depression was forming near the Bahamas.... That small depression had turned into a frightening fiend.... Is this some sort of bizarre coincidence? Not for those who believe in the God of the Bible.... The Bible talks about Him shaking his fist over bodies of water and striking them. While the "disengagement" plan was purportedly the brainchild of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the United States of America has for more than a decade been the chief sponsor and propeller of a diplomatic process that has dangerously weakened Israel... the Sharon disengagement plan was something that was forced on Israel, primarily by the United States.〔 This was echoed shortly thereafter by the Jerusalem based Christian Friends of Israel, which wrote, "we know that God only disciplines his own. Perhaps there are enough good men left in the United States that God thinks it worthwhile to send an occasional reminder not to tamper with the Land that He calls His own".〔 Evangelical Jack Chick produced a chick tract entitled ''Somebody Angry?'' which also explained the hurricane as a sign of God's wrath over US pressure on Israel.〔(''Somebody Angry?'', 2008 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hurricane Katrina as divine retribution」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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