[iandwk]

I posted on this thread yesterday and it was removed by the administrator. In thinking back to what I said, I agree with the decision to remove it. I will rephrase it a bit and try not to be offensive to those in the Middle East who are not terrorists.

I am not worried about global warming. If it is indeed happening and mankind is the cause, I don't think it will doom us to extinction. I happen to believe what the Bible teaches about the end of mankind on the earth and the end of the earth, but I won't get into that here.

Man has been stumbling along on the planet for several thousand years, making mistakes and correcting them, yet somehow always advancing. I have no reason to believe that it won't continue. I refuse to apologize for the past and for being human. I think all of us today are beneficiaries of those who have shaped the past and gotten us to this point.

I do believe there is a force in the world today that can change a lot of the good mankind has accomplished, if not completely destroy it. I am more worried about that than I am anything that our lifestyle can do to make the future worse for mankind. Our government is bowing to the pressure of interest groups that is changing a lot of the things we have always held as core beliefs. The media for the most part has joined in on this. There are a lot of things that we used to think were wrong that have been made to seem right by the media, portraying these beliefs as funny and poking fun at those who disagree with that stance. Now we find a lot of these things to be not only acceptable to the general public, but becoming law in a lot of cases.

Just one small example, the thought that marriage is outdated and obsolete. Anyone who thinks that a child raised by a single parent is as well adjusted as one raised in a nuclear family has fallen prey to the media's and our governments portrayal of this as normal. Anyone who says otherwise is ostracized by the media. They portray us as buffoons who are uneducated and out of touch with reality.

I firmly believe in freedom of religion. I think that is one of the things that has allowed America to be the great nation it is. I think we may have gotten a bit too tolerant about it, though. We can't allow people to break our laws and generally defy what has made us what we are in the name of religion. I find that to be intolerable. Worship the way you desire, but obey the laws of the land. If you can't tolerate these laws, there are other places in the world that will accept you.

This kind of stuff scares me much more than the threat of global warming.