Posted by
Roxanna M. on Sunday, February 03, 2008 12:07:19 PM
With severe winter storms hitting California and snow in Baghdad for the first time in memory and freezing temperatures throughout much of the midwest - with 6 more weeks of winter coming according to Punxsutawney Phil - Al Gore has resurfaced with his pronouncement that global warming is worse than he feared.
Afraid that people might be starting to catch on to his scam and unable to face the loss of all those millions he expects to come rolling in, the High Prophet of the Church of Global Warming has taken his spiel to the Christians.
Speaking before the New Baptist Covenant Celebration in Atlanta, the portly pontificator was heard to utter: "This is not a political issue. It is a moral issue. It is an ethical issue. It is a spiritual issue." Further, "The evidence is there. The signal is on the mountain. The trumpet has blown. The scientists are screaming from the rooftops. The ice is melting. The land is parched. The seas are rising. The storms are getting stronger. Why do we not judge what is right?"
The latter bit of drivel is a paraphrase of Luke 12:54-55, which says: "He (Jesus) also said to the multitudes, 'When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once,"A shower is coming"; and so it happens. And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, "There will be scorching heat"; and it happens." (RSV)
So, what do we learn from these two verses? That there was rain and scorching heat in biblical times, centuries before global warming. And if memory serves, there was a heckuva flood some years before Jesus.*
Gore once again criticized the United States, the country that has been so good to him, for not signing the Kyoto Protocol. Firstly, he was Vice President of the United States and, therefore, President of the Senate, when that treaty was rejected 98-zip by that democrat-controlled body. Second, despite having not signed the Kyoto Protocol, America has done a better job of reducing its emissions than most countries who did sign.
The ultimate proof that Big Al has gone around the bend and should be sharing a room with Britney Spears lie in his comments that America has proved in the past that it can solve big problems, i.e., winning freedom from England, freeing the slaves, and putting a man on the moon. He claims that political will is all this nation needs to solve great problems.
Is he kidding? Not one of these accomplishments is anywhere near as big a problem as controlling the climate of the entire planet. I venture to say that playing God is a whole lot tougher.
Gore's comment, "When did people of faith get so locked into an ideological coalition . . ." is breathtaking in light of the fact that he's the one locked into an ideological coalition that refuses to allow dissent. But, the Left never recognizes its own hypocrisy.
Global warming is not a spiritual issue. "In the beginning, God . . ." (Genesis 1:1) Christians know that God created the world when He felt like it. Is there any reason to believe that He won't destroy it when He feels like it? And if He does, trust me, there's not thing one we can do about it.
Frankly, I don't know how He's put up with us for so long.
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* Gore has recently come out in support of gay marriage. Obviously, there are several other parts of the Bible with which he is similarly unfamiliar.