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The religion of “climate change” preaches that the world in its last gasp and that we have but 8, or 10, or perhaps 12 years left before the planet burns to a crisp unless we stop drilling for oil in our country, and simply import it from nations who don’t like us very much.

They also say that we can slow it down, or stop it by simply throwing other people’s money at it.

Obviously, that’s nonsense.

The global climate isn’t dependent on trillions of dollars of jacked up taxes. I can say that with a great deal of confidence because the global climate has been changing since our particular globe was invented, and long before the invention of taxes. A lack of taxation was not the cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs, and hiking up taxes didn’t cause either the advance or the receding of the ice ages.

The religion of climate change, just as with all religions is a man-made procedure based on unscientific or false conjecture to extract money, or power from the masses, and in the case of every religion outside of climate change, they were started as a way for ancient man to explain what ancient man simply could not understand.

Today, the closed-minded, hopelessly addicted to blind faith facebook evangelists use as a weapon with which to seek acceptance from other like closed minded social media types and with which to pummel those who may believe differently than themselves.

To that end, I give you one Betty Cypert, and her post regarding Leviticus.

While I am of the mind that if you don’t like gay sex, don’t have sex with a gay person, Betty is seemingly seeking acceptance from other facebook evangelists and admonishing gay people by using a passage from the Bible as her weapon of choice.

Betty is taking the words attributed to Moses, and I say attributed because there is no way of knowing this far down the line whether or not Moses actually wrote the words, or simply spoke them to others before somebody finally jotted them down. For that matter, we have no way of knowing how many revisions those words went through in the oral telling of them, perhaps for centuries, before they were jotted down, or how those words were altered through one translation after another.

As far as anyone knows, Leviticus is supposedly more of God’s laws than would fit on the tablets containing the 10 big, but to Betty, and other facebook evangelists, whatever translation they are familiar with is THE law and in this case, it is aimed directly at today’s gay population.

Let me be clear on this point…ancient man, in the time of Moses, lacked the capacity to explain how or why things happened and so they either blamed, or gave credit to God for what they couldn’t understand about the world around them. They could no more explain a fart than they could a volcanic eruption, and when it came to holding sway over the people, they instilled fear into the masses using the threat of religious revenge should people stray from the path of their leaders on earth. It was easy for a garden variety ancient man to get up a head of steam and lead his people out of Egypt because the Pharaoh (while believing himself to be a god) wasn’t THEIR God…he was just a man…but make people fear their own God…and you’ve got an elemental grip on power.

In the case of the greenie weenies, their god is the government, and make people fear their government by threatening them with a global bar-b-que you can jack up taxes to bejesus and they’ll believe that’s what it takes to turn down the thermostat.

That said, I decided to add a comment to Betty’s FB post in an attempt to add knowledge to the conversation. I said, “The problems here are many, not the least of which is the fact that citing Lev.18:22 alone means that it has been taken out of context. The next major issue is that the translations we know today is not accurate to the original Hebrew texts. Remember, the section of Lev. from which this comes is a section regarding incest, and indeed it contains a rather long list of forbidden incestuous relationships. That said, the much more accurate translation, taking into account the original Hebrew would be, “Sexual intercourse with a close male relative should be just as abominable to you as incestuous relationships with female relatives.” Cherry picking inaccurate translations to back one’s personal beliefs and trying to pass such off as absolute doctrine is very problematic.”

Absolutely none of what I said was untrue. The original text was written in ancient Hebrew and translations of it have caused it to read differently that it should. That passage is contained in a section in which every other supposed law relates directly to incest. Assigning a totally different meaning to Lev. 18:22 than was intended as per the original language is clearly taking that passage out of context to be used as a weapon against gay people today.

But there IS some GOOD news contained in that passage for at least SOME gay people today. lesbians…you’re off the hook as Lev. 18:22 only refers to MEN. In other words, lesbians…feel free to frolic.

Also in facebook evangelist Betty Cypert’s thread, somebody named Lesa Guthrie, another member of the facebook evangelical flock chimed in by providing me with a list of other passages from the Bible that supposedly condemn gay people. There was Romans 1:27, Romans 1:28, Jude 1:7, 2 Peter 2:6, 1 Corinthians 6:9 and 1 Kings 14:24. Many of those passages dealt with Sodom and Gomorrah which were likely destroyed by a volcanic eruption…not that ancient people could distinguish that from a fart. Lesa’s aim was both at gay people, and at me since I dared to add historical context to the thread which makes me a heathen, much in the same way as mentioning the receding ices ages makes one a climate change denier.

I have long viewed the Bible as a source of great short stories. It’s full of imagery, imagination, wonder, sex, violence, tales of revenge, war, conquest, perseverance, life and death. It’s political, social, full of intrigue and more. I have always seen the Bible as a starting point if you’re interested enough to seek further knowledge. If one is content with ignorant bliss, taking the Bible as the last and only word in blind faith is good enough. It’s easier than thinking. But if one has any interest at all in further knowledge, one needs to look at the Bible with inquisitive eyes and then seek out such knowledge.

So, what does the Bible say with regard to seeking knowledge?

Well…Proverbs 15:14 –“The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.”

Proverbs 18:15-24 –“An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge. A man’s gift makes room for him and brings him before the great. The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him. The lot puts an end to quarrels and decides between powerful contenders. A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city, and quarreling is like the bars of a castle.”

Proverbs 1:7 –“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.”

Ecclesiastes 7:12-, “For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.”

2 Peter 1:5 –“For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,”

Oh, look – I too can quote from the Bible, and it’s obvious from these passages that the Bible is not adverse to seeking knowledge. In fact, these verses seem to encourage the seeking of knowledge rather than accepting words on blind faith alone. To put a finer point on it – one cannot seek knowledge from closed-minded parrots squawking only the words you want to hear repeated to you by birdbrains.

Let me provide a case in point to those who, on blind faith accept that Noah gathered the ordained by God number of every animal on earth and put them into an ark of certain dimensions. Knowledge begins with understanding that Noah had no capacity to gather any number of every animal on earth as many lived in places inaccessible to him, and while an ark of the dimensions mentioned would indeed float, because of its length, being built from available trees of average size, it would not have survived the rough seas described in the story.

Now then, an ark, of the dimensions described in the Bible would have held roughly 55,000 tons of cargo before its weight sank it beneath the waves even in still waters.  That said, given the size described in the Bible, and the number of critters that would scientifically be necessary to repopulate the world without the risk of genetic extinction, the ark was simply way too small.

Isn’t scientific knowledge interesting?

According to the best scientific knowledge available, given the biblically dimensioned ark, Noah would have needed roughly 100 such arks to do what the Bible says he did, and none of that takes into account the volume that would have been taken up for FOOD on what is reported to have been a 150 day voyage..

Does that mean Noah didn’t exist? No. Does it mean Noah didn’t build an ark? No. Does it mean that Noah didn’t float about for months with a bunch of animals? No. What it does mean is that the STORY of Noah as recounted in the Bible has been exaggerated and embellished over eons of retelling. It means that while a flood probably did occur, it was more than likely regional in nature as were similar floods elsewhere, none of which would have completely covered the planet with water.

Saying that God can make anything possible is the same as saying that the government, with enough tax dollars, can dial down the thermostat. Saying that land bridges created during the Pleistocene period is how Noah’s petting zoo got around after the flood fails on a scientific level as the Pleistocene ended roughly 11,700 years ago, and said flood supposedly took place 4,350 years ago. Sorry facebook evangelists, but the world IS far more than 6,000 years old and science tells us that the continents split apart roughly 200 million years ago.

Is the story of Noah, like other stories from the Bible a good story? Yep, and it’s a starting point for gaining actual knowledge rather than relying on blind faith. That’s NOT to say that the ORIGINAL telling of the story was inaccurate or embellished…that probably came later as the embellishments made the story more compelling, translations of it may well have been either off, or altered for effect by making its cautionary tale more of a threat to those who might question its basis in reality.

Science, scientific knowledge and common sense aren’t for the faint of heart, and they are equally undesired by facebook evangelists as by believers of the climate change religion because thinking is hard while blind faith is easy.

Leviticus 18:22 was never intended to be about condemning gay people, it was ORIGINALLY about incest between male relatives.

The problem with the religion of climate change is that it relies on the blind faith of its followers and their willingness to ignore facts and the truth. The same can and should be said regarding those of blind faith in any other religion.

When it comes to providing wisdom or insight to either facebook evangelists or climate change devotees, well, the Bible has a passage for that to…Proverbs 16:22 states, “Good sense is a fountain of life to him who has it, but the instruction of fools is folly.”

If you’re willing to have blind faith in YOUR religion, it would be hypocritical to question anyone else’s blind faith in THEIR religion. That’s the bottom line.

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