R.J. Rushdoony wrote this little essay for The California Farmer back in 1976; and today it seems more on target than ever.
Every generation, it seems has its doomsday scenario, “We’re all gonna die!” When I was a boy it was nuclear war, everybody building fallout shelters. Today it’s Climbit Change. It’s always some grisly fate from which we can only be saved by Science. And Big Government.
But the earth is the LORD’s, not theirs.
It would do us good to bear that in mind.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, along with three cardinals, nine bishops, and a host of other supporters, has launched an “Appeal for the Church and the World” aimed at alerting the world’s nations to the threat posed by globalism (https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/archbishop-vigano-plans-for-a-new-world-order-must-be-unmasked-understood-and-revealed).
The Red Pope isn’t gonna like it.
Quoting Archbishop Vigano: “The idea of plans for a New World Order under which countries and ordinary citizens see their identity taken away by a powerful elite might have seemed absurd until a few years ago.” The Appeal is to show “the serious danger to individual freedom caused during the spread of Covid-19…[by] powers which think there is no higher authority than themselves… [and] to break the media silence” from a media which is “censored and controlled.”
Bishop Muller: “The Church has allowed itself to be used as ‘Outreach’ by the New World Order.”
The Appeal was published on May 12, a few days ago. We have not yet seen any response to it from the Vatican.
Now, are we going to listen to these high-ranking officials of the Roman Catholic Church, or just write them off as cranks? Do we dare ignore them?
Yes, we should listen to them. Yes, there are rich and powerful individuals scheming to take away our freedom. There always are, and always have been: it is a dynamic of history.
Would-be world-conquerors–like Alexander the Great, or Genghis Khan–used to unleash great armies against their neighbors, to attain their goals by violence. World War II springs to mind.
But nowadays they’ve put their weapons on the shelf and try to take over the world with money, propaganda, so-called “science” (think Global Warming/Climate Change “you’re all gonna die unless you give us fantastic new powers–and all your money!”), political action, and in-the-bag media. They seek to win by lies and flattery what they’ve never been able to win by brute force.
Stand up for freedom, stand up for truth, and pray–because the earth is the Lord’s, and no cabal of sneaky socialists has any right to rule it.
May the Lord our God defend us from these predators.
A pair of Coryphodons, painted by Charles R. Knight
Jambo! Mr. Nature here, with another safari into the past.
Coryphodon is another prehistoric animal that isn’t around anymore, although many fossils of it have been found throughout North America and elsewhere. It was similar to a hippopotamus, although somewhat smaller. Scientists calculate it weighed a bit more than half a ton.
To me, the interesting thing about this creature is that it used to live on Ellesmere Island–almost at the North Pole. Here’s what Ellesmere Island looks like today–in the summer. In the winter it’s all just snow and ice.
But scientists tell us that Coryphodon’s environment on Ellesmere Island was one of “warm swamp forests of huge trees.” Eh? Well, they’ve dug up the plant fossils that certainly give that impression.
It would be hard to imagine a more radical climate change than this. What could have caused it? It wasn’t SUVs and toilet paper, air conditioning, or people not living like 10th-century Scottish peasants.
The earth is the Lord’s, and He does with it what He will. Let’s not give ourselves airs and claim we do these things.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Thinking we can do the things the Lord does is the beginning of folly.
I think it only fair to ask the producers of the Skeptic Annotated Bible, “So what do you guys have to offer, then?” Expect really silly answers.
Meanwhile we thank our friend, SlimJim, for answering the self-proclaimed “skeptics'” objections to the Bible.
I wonder how “skeptical” they are about socialism, Climate Change, etc. –LD