Hi ebedmelech,
My post wasn't actually addressing the FEMA issue. I was addressing the links that were posted about how the homeless were being treated in Columbia, SC.
However, here's what Paul wrote of the hearts of men:
The wrath of God
http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-41 is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.
http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-42 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made,
http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-43 so that men are without excuse.
http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-44 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-45 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-46 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images
http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-47 made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over
http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-48 in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.
http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-49 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie,
http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-50 and worshiped and served created things
http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-51 rather than the Creator--who is forever praised.
http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-52 Amen.
http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-53 26 Because of this, God gave them over
http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-54 to shameful lusts.
http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-55 Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-56 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-57 Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over
http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-58 to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-59 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-60 they are senseless, faithless, heartless,http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-61 ruthless. Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death,
http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-62 they not only continue to do these very things but also approve
http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-63 of those who practice them.
Now when I read these links concerning what FEMA is doing and what other governmental entities are doing and just what people in general are doing in the world today I find a perfect fit with this claim that Paul has made. That mankind has become and is every day becoming
filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-59 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-60 they are senseless, faithless, heartless,http://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-61 ruthless.
Now one can surely say, "Well, that's not a prophecy but how people acted in that day", and I would be in complete agreement. However, I also see that that attitude of men is coming over more and more people as we progress to the end of this realm. So, it becomes not only a statement of fact for the day in which it was written, but also a statement of the future attitude of mankind.
Can anyone really deny that man is more wicked today than then? The holocaust of Germany, in it's shear numbers of murdered people and the way of their murdering has nothing in the past which comes even close. The death and destruction wrought by the WTC attack has nothing that comes close to it's enormity in the past. Evil? How can anyone who understands what evil is even consider that mankind, as a whole, is not more evil today than then? Greedy? We are a nation built and supported by a system of greed. The daily scrabble for more and more personal possessions and money. And that same attitude is apparent in many other nations as well. Gossips, slanderers? One can't hardly turn on day time TV and not see that gossip and slander are the norm for our society and also many others.
So no, I am not basing my assessment on just how the people of a nation upon the earth, called the United States, is behaving in it's moral attitudes, but many, many other nations as well.
Right now Syria is being accused of slaughtering thousands of it's own people. Similar accusations were leveled against Hussein. The WTC attacks, while carried out on our soil, were not the plans of some group of Americans, but the plans of our enemies from other nations who were sent here to do their work. While there are certainly groups who believe and try to push some agenda that our own government was behind that attack and the Boston bombing and the Sandy Hook school shooting, that's just another evidence of the evil of men.
God bless you.
In Christ, Ted