Kristi Noem 'extremely grateful for God's hand' in Texas flooding

[turbinetree]

By David Edwards
Published July 8, 2025 12:34 PM ET

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem spent several minutes praising God's part in the recent deadly flooding in Texas.

At a White House cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Noem recalled that one father found his dead daughter's shoe in the mud.

"Just hugging and comforting people matters a lot," she insisted. "I'm extremely grateful for God's hand in that whole situation because hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people were saved."

https://www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-god-flooding/

Hey Noem after getting too paragraph four in this article to read................you and your sycophants are truly one sick fucking puppy.....................did you rehearse this in front of a mirror like your fucking leader does everyday with that fucking red hat on.........expressing your sick values of your god........you wouldn't know god if it was standing in front of you.....

[efhmc]

1. Daily I wonder what evil thing The Want to be King and his minions will say and or do and daily

they outdo themselves.

[B.See]

36. for them, no low TOO low.

[Biophilic]

2. WHAT!!!

I can’t, I really can’t. These people have no soul. Period.

[MagickMuffin]

3. And yet that very hand of god killed over 100 people

And a large portion of them were little girls at a christian camp.

God works in mysterious ways, don’t he Kristi?

[ancianita]

19. No. God had nothing to do with RW humans' free will decisions to a) cut NOAA meteorolgist positions, and

b) not invest state funds in disaster sirens in a well known flooding area, and c) shut down FEMA later this year.

God never wills human death. Humans' selfish wills bring death on themselves and other humans.

[MagickMuffin]

35. Well I was responding to Kristi, and was being sarcastic

I live in Texas, and this is their mindset. And it keeps getting worse by the day.

They never want to address mass deaths, whether it’s the weather or someone gunning down children while they are sitting targets in their classrooms. They never want to address those tragedies.

[ancianita]

39. Okay. Sorry I missed that. Usually I catch sarcasm.

Thanks for elaborating, as well.

[struggle4progress]

4. "There's a hundred people I won't have to drag to my gravel pit!"

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

5. I thought their God was kinda into flooding.

[Girard442]

6. Although I'm not religious, I know there are comforting things one can say from a religious viewpoint.

Noem clearly hasn't bothered to learn any of them.

[Johonny]

7. God flooded them, then comforted them

After the act of God. This is the part of Job where God has dusted his family, but since Job does right by God he gives him new children and like . . . No one goes WTF.

The GOP, the flood is an act of God.

Also GOP, thank God he comforts the victims . . .

Logic like that makes you question the value of religion.

[ancianita]

21. Logic like that is mere human understanding. It's theology, not religion, that explains God.

I was in the insurance business in Chicago. "Act of God" is purely an insurance denial of coverage term.

As long as climate problems grow into cascading disasters, these issues about God and the value of Life will keep coming up.

Here's a read that emphasizes sanity more than theology. It explains human nature (emphasizing the intellect), free will, and spirit. It brings value to anyone who's open to learning about Reality.

[Xoan]

8. Murder

[StarryNite]

9. What kind of monstrous god does she pray to?

[ancianita]

22. purely one of her own imagination

[StarryNite]

25. Which explains why she dreamed up

a heinous one. One in her own image, of course.

[Tetrachloride]

10. tho i walk in the valley of mud...

well … who. knows

[Tribetime]

11. What a joke...she spews so much hate and claims to be a Christian

[Skittles]

37. to be fair

that is true of most repukes

[Tribetime]

42. Every last one of them they're all Scum of the earth

[Ping Tung]

12. Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man (or woman). Thomas Paine

"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?"

Mark Twain

[Tetrachloride]

13. take any sentence. add thanks God

[dalton99a]

14. Helluva job, God

[ancianita]

23. ...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20469681

[Blue Full Moon]

15. Try republican negligence

2015 there was a deadly flood in Texas. 2016 engineers recommended an alert system that the federal government was going to help pay for and the republicans refused it. Earlier this year HB13 was refused by republicans. The State of Texas has billions in a rainy day fund.

[Paladin]

16. Just shut the fuck up, Noem. (nt)

[twodogsbarking]

17. Let's stick to your job nutcase.

[mdbl]

18. Yes, stick to being just a cruel asshole who doesn't care about the constitution

and is only qualified to be totally incompetent

[twodogsbarking]

20. I was fantasizing. Pretty much all we have at this point.

[AntiFascist]

24. Meanwhile, Mother Nature has more tricks up her sleeve...

as hyper-religious science deniers drive Federal government to end green energy agendas and increase the usage and development of fossil fuels.

[Irish_Dem]

26. It's not climate change and govt failure killing people. God is doing it all.

God is a busy bee lately.

[Initech]

31. This crisis caused and brought to us by MAGA Christian republicans.

[C_U_L8R]

27. The words of a total incompetent

Deflecting will get you nowhere, no matter how you dress it up.

[Ocelot II]

28. I have always thought it was grotesque, not to mention theologically untenable,

for survivors of disasters to thank God for their survival, "God has a plan," etc. Same for anyone else thanking God for "saving" some people. What about the ones God didn't save? Were they not worthy of saving? Why did God take those people; why did he decide the survivors were so special that he still has plans for them? It's incredibly insensitive, it must be rubbing salt in the wounds of the families of the dead for anyone to be thanking God, implicitly suggesting that God didn't consider their loved ones worthy of saving. Makes me want to puke whenever I hear that crap.

[vapor2]

29. These clowns need to stop using religion to hide behind

when they are full of hatred, racism and cruelty. Makes me wanna vomit

[Initech]

30. Our government is not your church!

[mucholderthandirt]

32. If you ask these "Christian" people about God taking good Christian children,

they'll excuse it. God has a reason. He needed more little angels in Heaven. It's God's will, not up to us to question it.

But if Biden had shut down NOAA and whatever, they'd be screaming and trying to kill him for it. Now they're just glad it happened, because Jesus.

I hate these people. Every single one of them.

[Srkdqltr]

33. People who didn't want to spend the money for sirens. Period.

[purple_haze]

34. This week

I will be praying for the victims and their families. This is an unbelievable tragedy.

[Deuxcents]

38. Why do these people always tell us how great it is up there and they're just passing thru to the promised land

And yet disrespect the temporary home with pollution and trash it and when a tragedy occurs they say thank god I made it..I’m so glad to be alive..let’s pray for the poor souls who lost their lives, etc.? Which is it? Why are they so thankful to be alive when they can’t wait to go to heaven?

[comradebillyboy]

40. So why did God kill those children in the first place?

The Catholic Church taught me that God was omnipotent, omnipresent and all knowing so everything that happens must be God's will.

[sinkingfeeling]

41. But I see it as God's punishment for Texas' anti-immigrant stance.