Is there hope for Ray Nagin?

New Orleans' Mayor Ray Nagin actually said something that sort of makes sense!

Well, some sense. To a point. Part of it.

True, he still buys into the divisive lie that "we're in Iraq under false pretenses." And he goes Pat Robertson in his unbiblical ascription of hurricanes and natural disasters to God's anger at their victims, contrary to what Jesus taught about such things.

But he apparently understands that God isn't pleased with hate, such as he himself displays so regularly, or with lies, such as he himself tells about Iraq, or with divisiveness, in which he himself specializes. That alone might be enough to get him read out of the Democratic party.

And recognizing something is, in the abstract, a sin is the first step toward repentence. Perhaps soon, he'll actually stop the hate, and the lies, and the divisive bile himself.