I really don't want to take part in a Left-Right culture war. I really don't want to take on the pseudo Christian Establishment. This is not my war. I really don't want to take on anyone. Actually, I'd prefer to just crawl into a little hole and sleep.
But what I must take on is the massive ignorance, blatant hypocrisy, and corruption of this World. I mean, come on, the Bible provides a great roadmap for living, but few people actually follow it. Or they selectively follow it. Actually, people use it for self-gain, or to just beat their ideological opponents over the head. It's really all a game.
I recently read several articles that link Hurricane Katrina to Global Climate Change. What an irony: every time you get into your car to go to a Sierra Club meeting or to church, you are contributing to the crime. This week I've read articles and watched TV documentaries on the effect of Climate Change on the Arctic. For the people who live up there, Climate Change is already happening and affecting their lives. It is a warning for things to come.
And YES, it is human-caused and not part of a long-term cycle (as the industrialists would have you believe). It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that the millions of tons of emissions we put into the sky each week are going to have SOME impact on the Earth.
Ms. Bradberry: One volcano puts more pollution the air than all of industrialized society combined. And in the 1970s they were predicting that all the pollution would keep the sun from getting in and we'd have another ice age.
Well, I don't know about the volcano thing, but I CAN say that scientist know a lot more now than they did 30 years ago, and it is becoming an accepted fact that Global Warming is anthropogenic.
When Global Climate worsens, it will be the poor that is impacted most. We are already seeing that from Hurricane Katrina. Those in Bangledesh, a nation at or below sea level, will soon see it too. The poor live in flood plains, on the mountainsides, and in the most dangerous areas. The wealthy can adapt, they can move, they can buy more air conditions, but what about the poor.
Below is a favorite passage of Scripture, because it talks about humility. Oh, and then we are threatened with Hell. Truly, a religion of contradicting forces and cognitive dissonance.
Matthew 25:44-46 (RSV)
44. "Then they also will answer, `Lord, when did we see thee hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to thee?' 45. Then he will answer them, `Truly, I say to you, as you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me.' 46. And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
What kind of world are we leaving our little
children. Hell, I know that sounds cliche. And,
hell, I know that no one really cares.
Ten Minutes of Hope
I think maybe I should start with what hope is not. Hope is not saying or believing that everything is fine now. And it’s not a belief or a promise that every thing is going to be fine. Terrible things are going on now, and terrible things will be going on then. Hope is the belief that what we do matters, and that the world is wilder than our imaginations. And the despairing often go for sweeping statements as though if not everything is fine, then everything is doomed and ghastly. Despair is predicated on the idea that the future looks like whatever is most painful and worrying in the present. But if the past is anything to navigate by, it isn’t going to look that way at all. We don’t know what it will look like.
—Rebecca Solnit, author of “Hope in the Dark,” Sierra Summit 2005
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