Blame LA fire horror on the woke religion bringing ruin to our cities

The story of the Hebrew Bible is, at least in some part, the story of God punishing the wicked.Welcome to wildfire-beset Los Angeles, or as The Post so poetically put it, HELL.A.I don’t mean to suggest that Angelenos somehow deserve the catastrophe that has befallen them; to do so would be not only misguided but unforgivably cruel.But as we’re reeling from one of the greatest disasters ever to befall an American city, we must be brutally honest, especially if we want to prevent this kind of calamity from happening again.And a brutally honest assessment points to one inconvenient truth: The devastation of Los Angeles occurred largely as a result of people in power adhering blindly and madly to a very bad religion.It was the woke religion, which judges people by the color of their skin and not the content of their character, that propelled Karen Bass to the highest office in town.When the warnings started trickling in, days before the inferno, that LA might be looking at “the Big One,” Bass flew to Ghana to partake in some utterly meaningless bit of “diplomacy,” as if attending foreign inaugurations were part of an American mayor’s job.When she finally returned, Bass stared silently at a British television reporter who asked a host of barbed questions, then gave a press conference in which she directed anyone seeking assistance to “URL,” a blooper that would’ve been hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic.It was the woke religion that led Bass to shave $17.6 million from the Los Angeles Fire Department’s budget so that she may have more money to coddle the city’s increasing — and increasingly unhinged — homeless population.The $23 million cut she had originally asked for was even bigger, clearly reflecting the mayor’s priorities of virtue-signaling over actual safety.It was the woke religion that inspired the mayor, a champion of the gospel of diversity, equity and inclusion, to appoint a string of incompetents to the city’s all-important ...