January 6, 2011

Divining God’s intentions

If I were in the fundamentalist preaching biz, looking around God’s creation for signs of His intentions, wrathful and otherwise, wouldn’t this be good fodder?

Floods:

Pestlience:

Rapid change in the natural order of things:

The 24-hour-a-day darkness that blankets the High Arctic three months a year is becoming brighter every year and, according to one observer, it’s the result of global warming.

You know: God, light, purpose of life.  It’s right there at the Bibical beginning, ripe for interpretation.

Indeed, God seems to be rather blunt, even whimsical, in His manifestations these days.   Some of the most apocalyptic-style events are occurring in places that make their wealth pulling carbon out of the ground to be burned in very large quantitities.

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Not very subtle, is He?  But we can’t seem to make the connection from A to B.   Perhaps there’s too much noise to hear a clear signal. 


So what in God’s name will it take?  Not, apparently, fear of climate change and the end (yawn) of our civilization, blah, blah. 

Rather:  this.  [Marc Jaccard covered it nicely too.]

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