The wrath of God

[Alan]

Hi,

There are floods currently across a large section of the UK, which have not occurred for at least 70 years on this scale. The mantra is heard from the mouths of many pundits that recent flooding is a result of 'global warming'. But new voices are claiming that what is happening at the moment is divine retribution for the immoral way we now live. Several bishops claim this is the case and one, the Bishop of Carlisle has argued that the floods are not just a result of a lack of respect for the planet, but also a judgment on society's moral decadence.

[Lost_Soul]

Hi, Alan

Well, the world has certanly been arrogant and careless to the enviroment over the past hundred years, but that flood of yours has nothing to do with it. And the global warming is believed to be just a part of the "world cycle", it has happened before and it will happen again, independently of what people have done to the earth. And I do believe that people are too small to cause any global changes to the world which can seriosly affect things like global warming. We are just watchers, not the actors. The actors are the universe (everything beyond our earth). A meteor with the size of a small planet can smite our earth into pieces and we can do nothing to prevent it, a black hole can suck our earth in and compress it to such a point that you can compare it to an apple and we again can do nothing.

[Fan Of Arabian Horses]

Hi!

Whatever the initial reason is (I mean whether it?s religious or simply stupidness of humanity) there is one fact: never had been that much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than currently.

Whoever is doubting in that should see the documentation of a near president of the US. Al Gore?s " An inconvenient truth " shows the aspects of human (particularly of the economic nations) behave and the mass of carbone dioxide and the global warming.

Of course, a single human isn?t capable of destroying the world but the mass of us is, certainly. No matter whether God or nature does send a sign of warning, the recent and current catastrophes should be reason enough to think through our energy industry. As the initiator (God or nature) has found a smart solution for punishment.

Regards

Michael

[Che Gevara]

If it happened in the USA ,I could think so,but not in England..
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[Aydincelenk]

Hi Alan,

I am very sorry to hear about the floods in England as I feel sorry for everyone who has a natural disaster like you.
But I am more sorry to hear the words of the Bishop. Because it is nonesense to think that the God is going to cause such a disaster on earth.
As Muslims, we believe that the most beloved ones on earth for the God are human beings, and as it is said in the holly book everything on earth is created for the use of human. So why would he give us such difficult situations to cope with?
It's all caused by our actions. We destroyed the nature and the nature will destroy us.

Love,
Aydın

[Jamie (K)]

Those British bishops need to go back to the seminary, because they've forgotten that their religion doesn't condone that kind of superstitious explanation of things.

But the main thing people have to realize is that both the bishops and the "global warming" freaks are offering a superstitious religious explanation of the whole situation. They are both claiming that an apocalypse is occurring due to man's "sins", when, in fact, it undoubtedly has completely natural causes. "Global warming" advocacy is simply a non-theistic religion that takes a naturally occurring 1,400-year cycle and claims it's due to people's collective sins. In a few years, when there's no catastrophe from global warming, they'll find another thing to blame on sin, just as they did when their predictions of global cooling didn't pan out in the 1970s.

We had the same kind of nonsense in the US when Hurricane Katrina hit Mississippi and Louisiana. Some claimed it was the wrath of God, and the global warming freaks claimed it was due to man's environmental sins, often adding that George W. Bush himself was personally responsible for the bad hurricane season. (He is their present devil incarnate.) They also predicted that the problem would get worse and worse every season because of our environmental sins. But whataya know, last year we had a mild hurricane season, and this year appears to be more of the same. So now they've moved on to blaming George W. Bush and consumerist sinners for something else.