Prompt
It’s been snowing for two weeks straight, which is strange for Texas. I’m
starting to think my great aunt is right, and God really is angry with us.
Botner
I hope he gives us a good snowfall to make up for it. In case you haven’t
heard, Today’s Church of Christ has put out a press release announcing the
“end of days”. The holy-rollers are taking over the white wood chairs.
Arguably the biggest “Christian” publication on the planet, Christianity
Today, had a front page story yesterday saying that the world is at “the end
of days”. In fact, they suggested that it is already here. Well, get a load
of this guy: If the Bible is accurate, these are the end times and, if so,
Jesus is the only one who can save us from all the evil in the world. The
question is, if there are some who don’t believe it, what do they believe?
What a perfect way to answer that question: Saint Peter, shut the door. I
told you so. I love the idea that God would get that upset with us for going
around unregenerate people. But it seems kind of random that the desire for
knowledge is a sin? It seems to me that the more involved in the Word of God
you are, the...
Conclusion
...less likely you are to accept the diversity in others. There’s a lot of
intolerance in organized religion, and I have no interest in being part of
it. The snow in Texas has nothing to do with God, or the “end of days”. It’s
the climate, and the climate is because of us. People don’t want to admit
it; not because they’re stupid, but because doing so would force them to
acknowledge that we have not done enough to fix it. We’re leaving lights on,
and driving too much, and using too many straws. Things won’t magically get
better on their own, but if you lie to yourself, and pretend like there’s
nothing you can do about it—that the climate is the way it is exclusively
due to natural patterns—then you’re off the hook. You can keep doing
whatever it is you’re doing without changing any of your behavior, or making
more work for yourself. It’s true that there are a lot of greedy people out
there who have no stake in the future. They’re old, and they’ll die soon,
and they don’t think they’ll have to worry about the consequences. By
helping destroy the environment, they’ve not only doomed the rest of us, but
they’ve also built up enough wealth for themselves so that, should the
consequences appear while they’re still around, they’re better equipped to
deal with them. Ted Cruz is a senator from Texas who rejects the idea of
climate breakdown, and he’s made a lot of money upon that platform. Funny
enough, he’s completely free from the snow storms ravaging his state. He
literally left, and took a nice vacation in sunny Cancún. I wrote the prompt
for this installment weeks ago, long before this happened to Texas, which
doesn’t prove that I’m prescient, but that this was inevitable, because
unlike Cruz, I accept scientific facts as they are. These rich people in
power aren’t going to do anything about the environment, because it doesn’t
matter to them. This means that it is up to us. We have to remove them from
their roles, and elect decent leaders, who believe in the facts, and
willingly work towards the greater good, rather than their selfish,
unsustainable, despicable priorities.
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