Religious & other weather forecasting
Professor Max A. Moritz at the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley and his colleagues find the long-term probability of increase of forest fires in the American southwest is high.
Texas and Arizona are among those states at risk — further evidence that the Red States that engage in active climate change denial are committing suicide. I suspect most Coloradans know exactly what is happening to them and why, and my heart goes out to them.
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It appears that Boulder, too, may be under some degree of threat, and is preparing for possible evacuation.
Boulder, as very distinct from Colorado Springs, is where the Buddhists thrive — home of Naropa University and much more besides.
Best watch out, Boulder. Some Buddhists — as true to the Buddha’s teaching, perhaps, as Rev. Hagee is to those of Christ — hold views about Karma that seem remarkably similar to Rev. Hagee’s views about the wrath of God.
I’m thinking of Sharon Stone:
Stone, 50, who was speaking to reporters at the Cannes film festival, criticised the Chinese government’s actions in Tibet and directly linked them to the disaster: “I’ve been concerned about how should we deal with the Olympics, because they are not being nice to the Dalai Lama, who is a good friend of mine,” she said. “And then all this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and I thought, is that karma – when you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?”
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God, nature or karma — whatever it is, it appears to be an equal-opportunity creator and destroyer.
We’re human.
With our heads, we’d like to explain and blame. With our hearts we are terrified, concerned, meditate, pray, fear, love. And help.
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Charles Cameron:
June 30th, 2012 at 7:16 pm
Joel Rosenberg (who is a “soon coming” partisan) made an interesting distinction in a tweet this morning:
I’m not sure I quite buy that distinction, and will be interested to see if he blogs on the topic and provides Biblical justification for it — but it’s interesting nonetheless, as providing a sort of middle ground between “divine judgment” and “natural forces”.
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Meanwhile Gary DeMar (whose position is more along the lines of “build the Kingdom on earth bit by bit via legal process, so Christ can eventually come again”) was pillorying someone on the left under the headline Liberals Want God to Judge Conservatives by Fires and Floods, which seemed a little over the top since the guy in question — one Mike Malloy, whom I don’t know from, say, Adam — was clearly joshing when he suggested:
Gary’s a bright guy — he knows the difference between a joke (Malloy) and a serious theological opinion (eg Jerry Falwell on 9/11). But then maybe he’s joshing a bit, too.