They believe that God wrote the Bible himself - personally.
They believe the universe was created in 7 of our calendar days.
They believe we all came from Adam and Eve.
They believe all living creatures fit on one boat.
They believe in a place called Heaven and one called Hell.
They believe in miracles (and so do I).
But - They don't believe in global warming - because it's chilly today.
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Reading this post just gave me my first negative thought about moving. Praise Jesus ya'll!
Dude (I if I may be so familiar)...I'm totally confused by this post ( maybe that's because the author of it is also a little confused?): you mock a certain set of religious beliefs, presumably for being so fantastically absurd that just to list them is to damn them, and then at the end you pull the philosophical rug out from under your own feet by admitting that you also believe in miracles! Do you not see the contradiction in that?
Yes, you may be so familiar - "Dude" is totally acceptable.
I chose to list these few (possibly absurd) religious beliefs because they are the ones I was taught and the ones followed by a large portion of the American population (Christianity). My article does not condemn these beliefs in any way but does indicate that I do question them. I no longer consider myself to be a "religious" person but I have never been more "spiritual" - there is a big difference that involves personal growth and questioning the teachings of those who claim they know what God wants.
Yes, I believe in miracles and I believe in prayer - perhaps not the most logical thoughts. But climate change isn't a belief. True it hasn't been proven beyond a doubt but there are facts to be examined. The point of this article was to illustrate the irony of those who believe "stories" and ignore "facts" just because it isn't happening to them at the moment.
If we wait for climate change to be proven beyond a doubt - it will likely be too late. And yes, the same could be said for Religion.
"My article does not condemn these beliefs in any way..."
Hello?
Rewind the tape...the title of your original post was "Fantasy Land". It's a little too cute to label someones deep felt religious beliefs as a fantasy and then to make the PC claim you are not condemning them "in any way". Certainly, it is a condemnation is some way, even if only a small way.
I will not be so timid...while of course respecting an individuals' right to hold whatever interpretation of the Bible (or any other religious text for that matter)that they feel is warranted, I think that to embrace the beliefs you listed in a completely literalistic fashion ( to the doctrinaire exclusion of even considering other less literal interpretations) is, well...unwise (I wanted to say STUPID!, but Christian charity restrains me).
By the way, I suspect that a few generations from now, people will look back on this current Anthropogenic Global Warming cult as just exactly that: just another whacky "religious" fringe cult. I think it is possible that it will be viewed as this generations version of the Salem Witch Trials (which is to say a form of cultural scapegoating for all the collective guilt and neurotic disorders of our society). There is plenty of empirical evidence disputing the theory of AGW ( just as there was plenty of empirical evidence disputing the claims of witchcraft in colonial New England) and plenty of credible scientist who disagree with it. Despite what Al Gore says ( and yet, curiously, declines repeated requests to debate publicly) the case is far from closed (and indeed, with all the recent and continuing revelations of fraud among it's biggest boosters, the case seems to be getting weaker and weaker).
Of course, I may be wrong....
I thank you for your comments - but if a person ignores facts because their own personal circumstances do not agree, then they may be living in a fantasy.
It should also be noted that my blog titles are often meant with a splash of humor or irony rather than just the topic. "Australian Cornflakes" is about the Olympics and not food. Isn't that fun?!
I do not understand why so many people are vehemently opposed to the very idea of climate change when it should be a very important topic. As far as I know - we have no other place to live but the Earth. We only get one chance to mess it up.
One more thing Mr. Anonymous, why do you hide behind anonymity? Your comments would have much more credibility if they were attached to a verified person. I think I wrote an article on that too! LOL
Sorry. The simple (and somewhat embarrassing) truth of the matter is that I'm more than a little computer illiterate and computer-phobic...it was a lot simpler and quicker for me to just click "Anonymous" than to try to figure out how all the other options work. Lame, I know. Lazy, too.
My name is Andre (although I have to say "Mr.Anonymous" sounds kind of cool, in a sort of noir, Quentin Tarantino way)and I'm in San Francisco (and no, sorry, I'm not Gay....well, OK, maybe just a wee bit).
As to the question of why so many people are vehemently opposed to the very idea of climate change, well,I don't know; you should ask them. As for myself, I'm pretty agnostic on the issue. My gut suspicion is that it's a scam, based primarily on notoriously unreliable computer models, and contradicted by reams of actual empirical evidence, but mostly I just don't trust most of the folks who are pushing it (on the way to this posting tonight I saw this headline from the Daily Mail(UK): "Head of 'Climategate' research unit admits he hid data - because it was 'standard practice'..."). I certainly could be wrong about this, but if I had to put my money on the line right now, I would bet that ten years from now no one will even be talking about this anymore; the international Left will have moved on to their latest fashionable crisis, and whenever level-headed folks respond by saying "Hey, these are the same folks who told us ten years ago that the planet had a fever", they'll just be ignored or called "deniers".
And remember, you know my name now, so I've got the cred, right?
PS: I really dug your bike blog (that's how I ended up here)
Welcome Andre - yes, you get the cred. And we can still call you Mr. Anonymous. ;)
I sincerely hope you are right and 10 years from now climate change isn't an issue. Still, we should be doing everything humanly and technologically possible to protect our fragile planet at all times. Pollution is cheap - protection is vital.
PS - the bicycle trip was a fantastic adventure. I hope I can do another some day. Thanks for visiting both my blogs.
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