rather than engage, just give them a copy of this quote

The next time someone asks me something as stupid as "what did New Orleans and Louisiana do to deserve this?" or "Is it true that Louisiana is a Satanic state and people practice the Voodoo?" I will direct them to this quote from a New York Times article. I only wish there was a photograph of this wise lady from Lakeview, but I can see her blue hair and pink mumu from here.

A church pastor, she said, had told her that the destruction was an expression of God's displeasure with the city's fun-loving reputation.

"I told him if it's so sinful, then how come Bourbon Street survived and we didn't?" she said, clutching her Chihuahua.