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New ‘Bible’: Heterosexuality is sin — There is now a bible that states that heterosexuality is sin? Wow, when the Lord said there would be “strong delusion”, He wasn’ kidding. But this is seriously ridiculous!

I would offer this passage:

2 Thessalonians 2:7-12 (KJV) — 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

It is the hallmark trait of every future-oriented civilization to train up the next generation with the values learned from the last. There is an exhortation in the book of Proverbs that reads,

“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” –Proverbs 22:6

Have we come so far in this grand experiment called America that we have forgotten the ways of our grandfathers? Have we progressed so far from the ideals and conventions from the days of old? Why is the old path synonymous with obsolescence? Why must technology and modernity equal the eradication of all faith and morality? The self-serving laws of man have made us lazy and greedy. We must know — how could we expect anything less — that the darkness of our thoughts and deeds will inevitably condemn future generations to a dimly lit future, as well.

Politicians, pundits and personalities have all said… continue reading…

Confessions Of A 9/13 Republican – Say Anything — Evan Sayet, Hollywood writer and former New York liberal, telling it how it is.

Hat tip: Say Anything blog

Turning Up the Heat on Gore is an article by NRO Editor Jonah Goldberg that ends up calling Gore’s environmentalist mission a faith-based initiative. Ha! That’s really quite amusing and so appropriate at the same time.

After hearing scientist after scientist dismiss Gore’s notion of man’s significant role in global warming and CO2 being a prime culprit of the same, you really do have to have “faith” (and a little old Appalachian Stubbornness) in Al Gore’s message to dismiss the dissenting opinions that have been backed up by scientific deduction that is, at the very least, as sound as the science Gore touted in Inconvenient Truth.

Goldberg is right-on-the-money when he says that Gore wants to change attitudes more than he wants to solve problems. Some folks say that politics is all about compromise. Well, nowadays, politics has become hyper-polarized and is more about persuading the masses than compromise where if you don’t believe a certain politically correct way your labeled stupid, dumb or an heretic at worst… and ignorant at best. And that is exactly what is happening — a changing of the masses’ minds where friendships and relationships are broken because one might not go along with the prevailing wisdom on global warming or at least not subscribe to the notion that although it’s clearly evident the world is warming slightly, there’s no evidence to suggest a truthful link to humans as the great contributor of this evil natural phenomenon.

Excuse me if I’m ranting but dung from horses and cattle contribute many multiples of 10 times more CO2 to the atmosphere than humans do. The falling and decomposing autumn leaves contribute many times more CO2 to the atmosphere than humans do. Volcanoes, every year, contribute more CO2 as well as many other greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere than do humans. In fact, as large as the human population has gotten (over 6 billion), as much dung is produced by animals on a global basis, and as many trees with leaves that fall and decompose in the Fall, and also as many volcanoes erupt every year, the earth’s oceans dwarf all of those as the greatest contributor of CO2 to the atmosphere. We are not the problem. Humans are not the problem. Do you hear me? On the grand scale, humans aren’t making much noise in global warming.

This rabid environmentalism has gone beyond asking us to reuse, reduce and recycle… this is more than a movement and more than a simple political struggle… it’s a quasi-religion with preachers of the gospel of environmentalism demanding from adherents their hearts and souls while insisting on compliance to their message as if compliance meant salvation or something. This makes televangelists seem innocuous.

Daily, we are seeing challenges and competent and quite exhaustive challenges to Al Gore’s assertions made in Inconvenient Truth. Here are two that I’ve noticed.

• Competitive Enterprise Institute’s 140 page PDF file
• The Great Global Warming Swindle (YouTube.com)
• The Reference Frame blogs about The Great Global Warming Swindle
• Stephen Hayward of the PRI weighs in with Gore on the Rocks
• Byrne’s Rightings has a nice round-up of Good Responses to Al Gore’s Testimony

The guys over at Verum Serum blog have done a nice job of listing 25 examples of One-sided statements, Misleading statements, Exaggerated statements, Speculative statements, and just flat-out Wrong statements. VS logically asserts that Inconvenient Truth is “ill-suited to serve as a guide to climate science and climate policy for the American people.”

-UPDATE- Michael Barone adds his 2¢ on the argument with Gore the Preacher Man: His faith is bad science

This is hysterical and so telling. Intellectual Level of the “Ban-It” Crowd Exposed — Hat Tip: Church of the Painful Truth blog

In the battle for our minds, our time and our tacit support, politicians, propagandists and marketeers the world over are pushing their “agendas” for everything from toys for your children to the biggest debates of our era. It’s the story of how a campaign turned into political bandwagon.

Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” has been labeled a politicization of weak and shaky science. I’m puzzled as to why a politician is the chosen spokes mouth for such a production, anyway. Be that as it may, many of the world’s top environmental science professionals as well as geological and meteorological professionals simply dispute the assertions that as Carbon Dioxide, introduced by human industrialization, increased the temperatures warmed. Scientists rightly assert that Carbon Dioxide is a relatively small part of all greenhouse gases and is not a significant factor of climate warming.

In fact, most of the Earth Science professionals and Paleo-Climatologists in this video directly assert that one who keeps their methods clean and beyond reproach cannot directly link whatever warming is occurring to a carbon dioxide. Oh, there’s some kind of relationship, alright…but it’s not what Al Gore says in his documentary. The data shows that as the climate rises and falls the carbon dioxide levels are not in sync with the temperatures. In fact, unlike Al Gore’s main premise of Inconvenient Truth, that Carbon emissions are the problem, the real inconvenient truth is that the temperature has been reliably proven to have about an 800 year lead on the carbon emissions. So, it seems that the heat (or the rise in temperatures) eventually brings about more Carbon Dioxide…not the other way around.

This all reads like a mantra from a political campaign…a political activist movement, if you will. I for one, will not get on his bandwagon.

—UPDATE—
In an article filled with a gauntlet of rip-roaring charges against Al Gore and “Inconvenient Truth”, WorldNetDaily news editor, Bob Unruh tells how “Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, today told former Vice President Al Gore his theories on global warming are not supported by the facts and if Gore’s desires are implemented, there would be no new businesses, cars or even people allowed in the United States.”

Rep. Barton gives point after point and lists, quite meticulously, the assertions of Gore and bats them down one by one. For instance:

“In your movie, you display a timeline of temperature and compared to CO2 levels over a 600,000-year period as reconstructed from ice core samples. You indicate that this is conclusive proof of the link of increased CO2 emissions and global warming. A closer examination of these facts reveals something entirely different,” Barton said.

Barton said a Science magazine article he was submitting for the record shows that historically, increases in CO2 concentrations actually lagged temperature changes by up to 1,000 years.

“The temperature appears to drive CO2, not vice versa. On this point, Mr. Vice President, you’re not just off a little. You’re totally wrong. And it’s not just this one article; the president of the National Academy of Sciences agreed, under oath, last summer in an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on this very point,” said Barton.

If you’re not convinced that there is more at play here than simply wanting to protect the environment, read this article and pay careful attention to what Czech President Vaclav Klaus has to say about the environmental movement. He sees a strangely hauntingly familiar relationship with today’s movement and the beasts of old Soviet Communism. This is a must-read article.