{"id":10194,"date":"2012-06-28T00:49:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T00:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=10194"},"modified":"2012-06-28T01:23:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T01:23:35","slug":"religious-other-weather-forecasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=10194","title":{"rendered":"Religious & other weather forecasting"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — forecasting, relihttp:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=10194&preview=truegious and otherwise ]
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As I write, there are fires still raging in the area of Colorado Springs, Colorado.<\/p>\n

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Years ago (in October, 1982?) I lived in a little place called El Nido, the Nest, about half way up Corral Canyon in Malibu, California. My papers were there, a decade’s worth of my thinking and writing, all highly flammable. I was in Santa Monica as it happened, watching a wildfire that had jumped the many lanes of the Ventura Freeway — eucalyptus bark carries flame nicely in a high wind — and was pouring down the dry scrub hills towards the coast, and I heard a police spokesman say the fire had been diverted into two mostly uninhabited canyons — Corral and Latigo — to avoid any risk of the fire reaching the prestigious Malibu Colony a little ways down the road.<\/p>\n

That fire burned to within fifteen feet of our house.<\/p>\n

The Colorado Springs fires are in the immediate vicinity of the US Air Force Academy, in and around the city the Guardian<\/a> calls “the ‘evangelical Vatican'” and NPR<\/a> “a Mecca for Evangelical Christians”. <\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

When Hurricane Katrina flooded 80% of New Orleans in August 2005, Pastor John Hagee<\/strong> said<\/a>:<\/p>\n

All hurricanes are acts of God, because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, and they are — were recipients of the judgment of God for that. … I believe that the Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When Haiti was hit by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in 2010, killing 300,000 and rendering more than a million people homeless, one-time pastor Pat Robertson<\/strong> said<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Something happened a long time ago in Haiti and people might not want to talk about. … They were under the heel of the French, you know Napoleon the third and whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said ‘We will serve you if you will get us free from the prince.’ True story. And so the devil said, ‘Ok it’s a deal.’ And they kicked the French out. The Haitians revolted and got something themselves free. But ever since they have been cursed by one thing after another…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now it’s the turn of Colorado Springs, the Evangelical Vatican or Mecca.<\/p>\n

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Here’s Joel Rosenberg<\/strong> blogging on the topic of the Colorado Springs fires<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Thousands of years ago, God told the Hebrew prophet Haggai to write down these words: \u201cFor thus says the Lord of hosts, \u2018Once more in a little while, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea also and the dry land. I will shake all the nations. . . . I am going to shake the heavens and the earth. I will overthrow the thrones of kingdoms and destroy the power of the kingdoms of the nations\u2019\u201d (Haggai 2:6-7, 21-22). This is Bible prophecy. This is an intercept from the mind of the all-knowing, all-seeing God of the universe. It is a weather report from the future, if you will, a storm warning. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His headline?<\/p>\n

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**<\/p>\n

Juan Cole <\/strong>has a different set of resources<\/a>, a different worldview: <\/p>\n

Over the coming decades, the American Southwest will become drier and warmer as a result of all the carbon dioxide and soot that the US, China and other industrial societies are dumping into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

[ … ]<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Texas and Arizona are among those states at risk \u2014 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

**<\/p>\n

It appears that Boulder, too, may be under some degree of threat, and is preparing for possible evacuation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Boulder, as very distinct from Colorado Springs, is where the Buddhists thrive — home of Naropa University and much more besides.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

I’m thinking of Sharon Stone<\/a>: <\/p>\n

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?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

**<\/p>\n

God, nature or karma — whatever it is, it appears to be an equal-opportunity creator and destroyer.<\/p>\n

We’re human. <\/p>\n

With our heads, we’d like to explain and blame. With our hearts we are terrified, concerned, meditate, pray, fear, love. And help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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