Posted on 12/19/2009 10:34:10 AM PST by wagglebee
Regular BreakPoint listeners know about the inhumane lengths some environmentalists are prepared to go to “save the planet.”
Some have proposed taxing the parents of newborns several thousand dollars to discourage child-bearing, and thereby reducing CO2 emissions. Others have spoken of “culling” the human herd.
What these proposals have in common, besides their cold-bloodedness, is that mainstream environmentalists keep insisting that they are “fringe” views. Well, recent statements from sources that couldn’t be more “respectable” put the lie to those claims. And they should remind Christians why the sanctity of human life must be our highest priority.
During the recent U.N. global warming summit in Copenhagen, China came under fire for not doing enough to reduce its CO2 emissions. However, China had at least one defender: Canada’s Financial Post.
According to Canada’s equivalent to the Wall Street Journal, China is “the world's leader in terms of fashioning policy to combat environmental degradation.” Hold it a minute! How can the world’s leading emitter of CO2, and home to 16 of the world’s most polluted cities, be a “world leader”?
Simple: its one-child policy. According to the Financial Post, the “inconvenient truth overhanging” the deliberations in Copenhagen is that “humans are overpopulating the world.” What’s needed is for the entire world to embrace China’s one-child policy.
This “simple” and “dramatic” fix would reduce global population by 50 percent by 2075. According to the paper, the failure to even consider such a measure at Copenhagen is proof that world leaders aren’t serious about global warming. I’m not making this up.
Advocating a global one-child policy doesn’t make the Financial Post as bad as the Chinese government—it makes it worse. The Chinese policy was an inhumane, brutal, and totalitarian effort to address the historic problems posed by China’s huge population.
In contrast, the Financial Post and others like it are motivated by a worldview that sees humans as a kind of virus infecting mother earth. For Gaia’s sake, they want the human population brought under control—even at the cost of human freedom and life itself.
In the aftermath of the Manhattan Declaration, some people questioned our focus on life issues. They wondered why we didn’t include other concerns, like the environment.
This is why. The sanctity of human life is under continuous assault. This assault isn’t limited to abortion and euthanasia—contempt for human life itself has become respectable. For the sake of the planet, we are being asked to drastically reduce our numbers.
But radical environmentalists don’t mean people like themselves—after all, their home countries, with the exception of the United States, are losing population. They mean the poorest and most vulnerable people on the planet. It’s no coincidence that a recent ad in a British newspaper about the link between CO2 emissions and population control featured 12 African babies.
This is the “inconvenient truth overhanging” the debate about environmental issues.
And it’s why the sanctity of human life is so important. If you haven’t done so, go to ManhattanDeclaration.org, sign the statement, and get your friends to do the same thing.
Maybe Soros and Strong are trying build up points for a corner office in Hades next to Hitler then. Algore’s angling for a room by ‘Dad’.
“This is why. The sanctity of human life is under continuous assault. This assault isn’t limited to abortionand euthanasia—contempt for human life itself has become respectable.”
This hits the nail on the head.
I have no quarrel with the sincere effort to protect the earth, clean up pollution, conservation, wise use of resources, etc. In fact, I have been at the forefront of such efforts long before it became a fashionable left-wing fad!
It’s the IDOLATRY towards Gaia that is SO STOOPID! It worships the creation rather than the Creator.
St. Paul warned about that in Romans. He said it would be a sign of the coming of the end.
Though on an interesting note: the Bible notes that Satan has power over the world.
Considering Mr Hitler’s considerable talents at oratory and motivational speaking, without the use of an electronic aid, I would have to say he could easily replace the present President of the United States.
Though on an interesting note: the Bible notes that Satan has power over the world.
I contend that power is limited to his minions, and the living he gains power over. I believe no God with the power of light and truth, and the means to provide for his children, would give to another the power to destroy his purpose or the means to achieve it.
Satan can wage war on the God of Israel, and gather a flock, but in the end, neither he nor his subjects, nor any of God’s children, have the power to destroy his creations or purpose. The souls of men are at stake, and the Son of God, has provided the atonement as our path to salvation, the battle goes on for a time, but in the end...
This is turning into a philosophical debate. While I agree that in the end Satan & the forces of evil will be defeated the fact of the matter is that they sure do still have quite a strong hold on the world as all one has to do is look around at how brutal this world tends to work.
Relegated to a position of non-power, non-authority, and the objects of ridicule, yes,
but they are still humans (made in God’s image) and eradication (murder) is not the answer - unless...
unless they start using force against us, then it’s self defense.
“Gaia” is the “personification” of nature, of the Creation.
Rom 1:21-25
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal human beings and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
they sure do still have quite a strong hold on the world
No argument there! I think I got confused as to what you were calling “the world”. Inhabitants, yes, the physical world, no.
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