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I’m sure this blog post will land me on some DHS watch list, but that’s OK. It’s not like I’ve never expressed very conservative viewpoints on this blog before, and this will likely not be the last time I do so. Besides, a card has already been made for me. I’m proud to be a right-wing extremist, and you will no doubt be convinced of that by the time this post is done.

If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, you know that if I have an opinion, I’m likely to express it, even if it might not be popular. There is an opinion I’d LIKE to express, but an organization I’m in is preventing that at this time and I feel like I’ve gone sledding down a hill with my hands in my pockets and ran full force into an eight foot wooden privacy fence at the bottom of the hill. I can use that analogy because when I was like 4 or 5, I actually did do that. Not that I was thinking of physics and all. My hands were cold, and so the simple remedy was to put my hands in my pocket. Automatic brakes (or the lack thereof) on the sled was the last thing on my mind. Because of the angle that I ran into the fence, my nose bone was pushed upward toward my brain, and I believe it is by the grace of God that I did not die that day. But that is neither here nor there. On to the next level of this discussion that I’ve started on.

Lately, I have been boggled by this “holiday” called Earth Day. The day that we’re all supposed to come together and give thanks to Mother Earth for providing this great place to live and to confess our sins of Thomas Edison light bulbs, coal, oil, gas and other fuels (thanks to those once-living critters that are now fossils), SUV’s, snowmobiles, airplanes, wolf and grizzly bear hunting, logging, and so on.

I cannot help but ask, why is it that you believe, that you, along with your 7 billion closest friends, can destroy something so complex as the planet on which you live and God made for you?

I’m reminded of a man in the Old Testament that went through a terrible time. He lost a great deal of his possessions, family and friends died, and to top it all off, he himself was stricken with poor health. He had not lived an ungodly life. In all this, some of his friends told him he needed to repent. His wife even admonished him to curse God and die. Finally, God spoke directly to Job and asked him a series of questions. These questions concerned creation. The foundations of the world, the weather patterns, things about wildlife, the stars, the oceans, rivers, and lakes. In the middle of it all, Job says, “Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you?” God continues on asking more questions bringing Job to make this confession:

I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
‘Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you make it known to me.’
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;
therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

And then the LORD Jehovah restored Job with twice of what he had before the trying of his faith. You’re probably wondering what this has to do with Earth Day. Well, read Job 38-41 and take the questions being asked of Job as though God were directing them at you, and then ask yourself if you still believe that YOU are going to be found guilty of killing Mother Earth because you didn’t get on the compact fluorescent light bulb bandwagon soon enough.

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