I believe your thinking to be backwards and antiquated.
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TxAgKuwait
1. Global warming? Puh-leeze. That's so 2004ish. In all truth and honesty, though, since God created Earth it has either been warming or cooling, albeit not both at the same time for the most part. My undergrad degree was Geology with a bunch of Meteorology electives. Did you ever think that maybe the Earth is warming because it is supposed to be warming, right now....and that doing something artificial to cool it off might piss God off?
So you're a geologist and are an orthodox christian?
Also, while I tend to err on the side of global warming (climate change), I agree that the evidence is not a slam dunk on either side of the issue.
However, I think the larger issue is that those of faith have been really slow to embrace overall care of the planet. I believe the mindset of "God's taking us all away anyhow...why do we need to take care of the earth, we'll be gone soon...", to be very very harmful for future generations.
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2. Drilling in wildlife refuges? Sounds like a good idea to me, kiddo. Technology has advanced a bunch since the 1920s and 1930s when oil and gas activity in west Texas left it looking like, well, West Texas. One thing about polluting the environment out there.....it's not like we were harming some beautiful pristine wilderness. In all truth and honesty, though, drilling can take place nowadays and seldom does anyone leave a mess.
I'm with you here. We need to drill.
However, it seems that each side of this issues takes an all or nothing attitude. Why can't the democrats allow drilling and attach some requirements to the oil compaines to invest a certain amount into renewalble energies. Both sides need to try and meet in the middle.
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3. Let's see. War. I think you've been listening to Culture Club's "The War Song" too many times again. There are worse things than war. Sitting around with our thumbs in our rectums while Islamofascists destroy everything we hold dear, then impose their will (and religion) upon us strikes me as something Jesus would justify as a righteous war.
As has been discussed on many threads, I think our issues with them have much less to do with religion as they do us meddling in their business. Our foreign policy over the past 50 years or so have contributed greatly to why they hate us.
It's a self-rationalization on our part to try and convince ourselves that they hate us because of our freedom and all that flag waiving nonsense.
They hate us because we prop up leaders over there simply for the benefit of our commerce and have been on all sides of the bloodshed the last 50 years.
Ron Paul is a bit nutty, but he is dead on about our foreign policy:
That’s what blowback is all about. It seems like such a simple concept, but many of Ron Paul’s former opponents for the Presidency vehemently denied its validity.
They professed that what our military does abroad has no effect on how the citizens of the world feel towards us. Rudy Giuliani in particular believed that the 9/11 terrorists hated our wealth and freedom so intensely that they sacrificed their lives to prove it. (Of course, our government bombing their countries, propping up their dictators and supplying their enemies with money and weapons had nothing to do with it.)
Instead of securing our borders, we’ve been planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression. Within a few short years, we turned Iraq into the world’s leading breeding ground for terrorists. Our military is spread thin all across the planet, yet we remain involved in dangerous power plays that unnecessarily put the lives of our soldiers at risk. And we brazenly squandered the wealth of our nation as if there were no tomorrow.
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4. Death Penalty? Maybe it is not Christ-like...but wouldn't you rather shoot somebody than allow them to run off with your new toaster oven? On a more somber note, let's say some criminal broke into your momma's house, molested her, then murdered her. Sandy, are you saying you would be opposed to the death penalty for that individual?
As with everything, we need to get religion out of this mess.
I love the death penalty. I have no issue with it because I have no religion to muddy the water.
I do think there are serious issues with our judicial system and how the death penalty is administered, but that's a different discussion.
