Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois

The heretics were never dishonest men; they were mistaken men. They should not be thought of as men who were deliberately setting out to go wrong and to teach something that is wrong; they have been some of the sincerest men that the Church has ever known. What was the matter with them? Their trouble was this: they evolved a theory and they were rather pleased with it; then they went back with this theory to the Bible, and they seemed to find it everywhere. — Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount.

A new religion – if in 2022 it can still rightly be called “new” – has established itself in Western culture and seems now to be the official religion of the Federal Government of the United States, and our mainstream media, along with Wiccan and pagan groups… and popular culture. Although its government adherents do not call it a religion, it certainly carries all the ear marks of one. It is lavishly funded by taxpayer dollars and enjoys mandated obedience through the power of Federal legislation. The priests of this mandated religion are c*****e c****e activists.

We do not doubt that many who hold to this faith are well-intentioned, deeply believing in the rightness of their cause, regardless of how this religion places heavy burdens upon ordinary citizens. They followed a similar route to those Martyn Lloyd-Jones described concerning former religious heretics, but with a slight twist. These new religionists “evolved a theory and were rather pleased with it: they went out and seemed indeed to find it everywhere.” They have turned their theory into an iron-fisted belief system and have managed to establish authoritarian rule over entire nations and cultures that would make old-fashioned religious cults like the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Scientology, and others jealous.

Mark J. Perry might call this new religion eco-pocalyptic, with its apocalyptic vision being slightly different from those of the past. Instead of preaching about God bringing judgment on humans, human beings are seen as wantonly destroying the goddess of the c*****e c****e activists – Mother Earth. The core doctrine is that humans are the thermostat that controls the climate of the planet on which we live.

This strikes me as odd. When I was younger, changes in climate were normal; they were called “seasons.” We had summer, fall, winter, and spring. Some summers would be warmer or rainier than others, and some winters were much colder or snowier than others. We could sometimes witness quite a few years in a row when the climate was cooler or warmer than in past years. It varied depending on what was happening within the planet’s interior and solar activity.

Unknown to some people, there was a Mini-Ice Age from the early 14th century through the mid-19th century when “mean annual temperatures across the Northern Hemisphere declined by 0.6 °C (1.1 °F).” Part of that period was “The Year Without Summer” in 1816:

The weather in 1816 was unprecedented. Spring arrived as usual. But then the seasons seemed to turn backward, as cold temperatures returned. In some places, the sky appeared permanently overcast. The lack of sunlight became so severe that farmers lost their crops and food shortages were reported in Ireland, France, England, and the United States.

What had human beings done to cause such a catastrophic event? Was it coal-fired plants, diesel or gasoline-powered vehicles, or flatulent cattle? No, the culprit seems to have been a natural planetary occurrence. As an article relating the history of this event tells us, The dust from Mount Tambora, which had erupted in early April 1815, had shrouded the globe. And with sunlight blocked, 1816 did not have a normal summer.

There were likely many such devastating examples of c*****e c****e throughout the centuries. Around the 1970s, or perhaps a bit earlier, a new belief was germinating in the minds of some climatologists. The habits of human beings; that is the cause of c*****e c****e!

We were personally exposed to their claims in the 1970s with dire warnings of a soon-coming ice age that would cover North America. Virtually everything North of Florida would be covered in ice!

In 1971 the Washington Post published “U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming,” predicting the New Ice Age would arrive by 2020 or 2030:

The world could be as little as 50 or 60 years away from a disastrous new ice age, a leading atmospheric scientist predicts. Dr. S. I. Rasool of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Columbia University says...

Newsweek, April 28, 1975, published “The Cooling World” warning, …that the Earth’s w*****r p*****ns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production – with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now.

As it turns out, these are but two of what are many false prophecies concerning the climate. In his article, “50 Years of Failed Doomsday, Eco-pocalyptic Predictions,” Mark J Perry noted the following failed predications:

1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast
1974: Another Ice Age?
1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life (data and graph)
1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent

Oddly, in the late 1980s, perhaps because the prophesied g****l c*****g was failing to materialize, the direction shifted radically to the other extreme – it’s not g****l c*****g that is going to destroy us, but g****l w*****g:

1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s
1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs
1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they’re not)
1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000
1989: New York City’s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it’s not)
2000: Children Won’t Know What Snow Is (they do)
2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy

To sum up: In 1975, the climate eco-pocalyptic prophets issued a warning of coming famines within ten years due to g****l c*****g. Then in 2002, they issued dire warnings of famine overtaking us in ten years due to g****l w*****g. They were false on both counts.

Here is how the average citizen in days of yore responded to gloom and doom climate forecasts: “Gee, that sounds kinda scary – we’ll have to see what happens.” And then they went on working and providing for their families, putting up Christmas trees, going to ball games and picnics, and otherwise living a normal life. It never entered their minds to destroy their nation’s economy over it, or tax themselves into abject poverty, because, of course, that would far more surely end in starvation and death – which didn’t sound good to them. But I digress…

Now we come to the ever-popular High Priest of the Eco-Apocalypse, Al Gore, creator of the “documentary” An Inconvenient T***h in 2006, who predicted earnestly in 2008 that the Arctic would be ice-free by 2013! He, of course, had what the Watchtower would call “New Light” on these dire predictions and sadly was forced to postpone Eco-Armageddon, and the Inconvenient T***h had to be put off for a more convenient time.

Because of all their many inconvenient false prophecies, the Eco Prophets shifted tactics. They dropped both the g****l c*****g and the g****l w*****g labels since they were just too specific, often embarrassingly so, and wisely replaced them with the amorphous name, “C*****e C****e.” With this shift in terminology, they can and do point to any climate related event and call it evidence of the coming mega catastrophe, whether it be hot or cold.

• An unusual snowfall? C*****e c****e.
• An unexpected drought? C*****e c****e.
• More tornadoes this year than last year? C*****e c****e.
• Colder or warmer weather than expected? C*****e c****e.

Even what we might consider perfect weather could be proclaimed a harbinger of doom. Fortuitously, C*****e C****e can be used to take the blame for the exact opposite of any of these conditions. No evidence is needed, of course – the assertion must simply be accepted. Any who ask for evidence are labeled “Climate Deniers.” This is the equivalent to the Watchtower and other cults labeling questioners as apostates! They don’t need to stoop to refutation – they merely cancel any who disagree.

As we see it, the most crucial key to C*****e C****e’s conquest over any naysayers lay in taking control of the public schools’ curriculum. Starting in the first years of a child’s education, they have this religion’s terrifying beliefs drummed into their heads. Many of the young are scared half to death of a rapidly approaching climate apocalypse, and once indoctrinated, quite a few seem immune to any opposing views. This religion also permeates social media and most news sources and completely dominates Hollywood’s offerings.

Now, this is interesting: one of the more renowned c*****e c****e poohbahs, Michael Moore, executively produced Jeff Gibbs’s film, Planet of the Humans. Instead of being able to showcase the great strides made by c*****e c****e activism in the development of renewable energy resources to replace coal and oil, they were dismayed to discover just the opposite. The various attempts to save the world from pollution and catastrophe were just creating new and more inventive ways to pollute the planet. The film was released free on YouTube in 2020, but it was deleted on May 25, 2020. PEN America asserted it was censorship.

To borrow a phrase from Al Gore, Planet of the Humans portrays a very inconvenient t***h. Moore was highly disappointed. He still is a dev**ed follower of the religion of C*****e C****e, but, like Bill Gates and others, he has concluded the only real solution to the problem is de-population, which would require death on a grand scale. We can guess that they do not sacrificially plan to volunteer to be the first to go.

Patrick Moore sees things differently. Moore is the past president of Greenpeace Canada, and he left in 1986 due to the false environmental claims and scare tactics they were employing. In a telling interview with Conversations That Matter, he discussed many of the claims of C*****e C****e activists, including the false claims about the imminent extinction of Polar Bears. According to Moore, the Polar Bear population has grown from about 6,000 in 1973 to over 30,000 today. Of course, Moore is labeled a heretic by climate activists, and you will find YouTube has posted a very convenient “context” warning.

So, what is our response and responsibility? This is not simply a scientific or political issue. At its core, it is a religious issue with two competing worldviews. On one side is the religion of man: Man is the current pinnacle of evolution and can control the planet, even its weather – no God need apply. It seems almost like a modern-day replay of the tower of Babel, only this time the planet is the tower – a “build back better” project of planetary proportions.

On the other side of the issue is God and everything He has created. Hebrews 1:3 tells us that He upholds “all things by the word of his power.” Human beings do have a responsibility towards God’s creation. In Genesis 1:26-28, God appoints His human creation – Adam and Eve – as stewards of the earth. At times humans have been and still can be bad stewards, carelessly polluting the waters and the air. Yet, much of Western culture has reversed and cleaned up those environmental issues. And, some of what the climate activists have pressed for are good things. With the use of DEF (Diesel Exhaust Fluid), diesel fuel emissions have been reduced to near zero. Clean Coal technology has also been developing over the past 30 years, working toward zero emissions. As the people of God and stewards of His creation, these are areas with which we should be educated and rightly concerned about. Dr. Calvin Beisner, provides one of the most biblically sound and scientifically informed resources in this area, recognizing the importance of proper stewardship while calling out the climate cult.

Everything that has happened or will happen in the future is in the hands of Almighty God. He controls the weather; man does not. No single person or group of men will wrest control away from Him, and He will have the final say. For our part, we must keep ourselves from hating others, even if we may find ourselves h**ed.

Many of us born into earlier generations enjoyed the great blessing of being taught in our homes and churches about God and the importance of having faith. And that faith in God upheld us.

In these times, people without God desperately need our love and prayers, especially the young, who do not have the tools to evaluate the information they are bombarded with. Please, let us pray for them as the world continues to press the Religion of Man.

Bevvy

Amen Brother , Great piece , you have a great God given talent