--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: <snip> > My comment was my way of having fun with the oft-expressed > notion of Fairfield as a "special place," full of equally > "special" people. It was also my way of reminding people > that some of these "special" people who consider themselves > so evolved expressed the opinion that Hurricane Katrina was > the "wrath of the laws of nature or God" exacting some kind > of karmic payback against all of those sinful people living > in New Orleans. Some did the same thing with the Iowa City > floods, ignoring the fact that Fairfield isn't on a river > and saying that that disaster, too, was some kind of karmic > payback, and that Fairfield was saved because it was so > special.
Sure would be interesting to see some quotes confirming this. I did a quick search, and all I could find here was folks condemning statements by people like Pat Robertson and James Hagee to this effect.
