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Worthless Trinkets Redux

Posted by flagwaver on Friday, October 09, 2009 8:40:06 AM
It seems that not so long ago I wrote this little ditty when Al Gore was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for making a fraudulent "documentary" all about the threat of global warning. At the time I thought that the award had been reduced to being a worthless trinket, used mostly to reward people with far-left political leanings. And this morning the Nobel Prize committee proved me right.
 
Because, if anyone has missed the announcement, President Barack Hussein Obama...MMM-MMM-MMM...was just awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace! Now what he has done exaclty to earn the award is a mystery, since he hasn't accomplished one damned thing to promote a more peaceful world. And he was nominated for the prize after having been in office for an entire two weeks!!! But in that two weeks he evidently did enough to warrant a nomination, and in the time since he has obviously done enough to win the prize.
 
Maybe it was how he ended the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, or how he backed the North Koreans away from their long range missile tests, or his piece de resistance, his talking the Iranian regime down from the nuclear ledge. Or maybe it was his strong defense of freedom when the Iranian dissidents were protesting a clearly fraudulent election result, or how he made sure to welcome the Dali Lama at the White House in defiance of the wishes of the Chinese government, or maybe it was his strong stance with the Honduran Supreme Court and Congress when it ousted the would be dictator Manuel Zelaya from office.
 
Or maybe it was the brilliance with which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton handled the Russians in her first meeting with them, or decision to stand with Israel in the face of the growing nuclear menace known as the Islamic Republic of Iran. Or possibly it was his courageous stance against a resurgent taliban in Afghanistan, and the subsequent decision to allow General McChrystal to have the resources needed to implement the president's new and comprehensive strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
 
But since this incompetent boob has done NONE OF THE ABOVE, why in the blue hell is he getting the Nobel Prize?!?! I suppose that just being "Not George Bush" is good enough, and people who have actually accomplished something meaningful (other than beating John McCain in an election) need not apply.
 
The Nobel Prize is, as I said before officially a worthless trinket.
 
So congratulations to President Barack H. Obama for winning....absolutely nothing!
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Evangelical Environmentalism

Posted by flagwaver on Thursday, September 03, 2009 9:53:17 AM

As I sit back and listen to more and more evangelical Christians join the AGW bandwagon, I am moved to speak to them about their decision. On the scientific side there is still much to be learned about whether AGW even exists, as many climatologists are not convinced that any undue warming is even happening today, but the theological underpinnings of this for evangelicals is shaky at best.

While I understand that we are to be good stewards of the earth and all of creation, I flatly reject the notion that we should be joining forces with the environmental left in trying to stem the tide of AGW. There is no scriptural basis for the belief that man is powerful enough to destroy this creation of God, and in my view is borderline blasphemy. We are not, I repeat NOT, able to destroy this earth no matter what we do.

Many have searched the Scriptures and have hung their claims on the words of Revelation 7:3 which reads, “…Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees…” but that is totally divorced from the Scriptural context. This entire passage is actually the words of the angel that is about to seal the foreheads of the 144,000 from the tribes of Israel; it has absolutely nothing to do with man not harming the environment. In fact the Bible in several places makes clear that this earth is going to last until Jesus returns. Jesus is going to return to Israel, to the very place that he ascended to Heaven and no amount of alleged global warming is going to change that fact. Psalm 24:1-2 tells us that the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness it holds is His. How can we destroy the thing that belongs to God Himself? Further, Ecclesiastes 1:1-11 tells us that the earth abides forever, the sun will rise and set, and there is nothing new found under the sun; in the face of that, the belief by Christians that we can destroy what God has said will abide forever is blasphemy. It is saying that we do not believe what God has told us through his Holy Word, and that we are more powerful than God Himself in that we are convinced that we can destroy His creation.

There is nothing wrong with Christians being concerned about being good stewards of the earth that God has allowed us to inhabit. It is a good thing to take care of the environment, it is a good thing to be concerned about pollution levels, and there is nothing wrong with doing our part to keep this creation in good shape for the One who has entrusted it to us. But we must be careful when allying ourselves with the AGW true believers, because their belief is a quasi-religious one that elevates the creation over the Creator. And when we ally ourselves with those forces that are pushing a basically pagan religious belief under the guise of “saving the earth” we do so at the risk of allowing our love for the Creator to be overwhelmed by devotion to His creation
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