Confident But Wrong

Having been bombarded by an endless parade of politicians on every media outlet imaginable, I am awestruck by the number of individuals I hear that are never in doubt but seldom right.  Politicians and goverment officials in general seem to using a compass lacking any attraction to the pole.  Or they simply keep moving in whatever direction they are going without taking time tto look at their compass.  Either way, they seem to be woefully lost but merrily moving along.

For instance, I hear them say how much more tax money we need to throw at our schools in order for them to be their best.  At the same time, according to CBS (not FOX), we spend more per student than any of the other 50 industrialized countries in the world but rank 17th.

I hear how we need to spend more money on the poor in this country and yet, since the War on Povety was launched by LBJ in 1964, the aount we spend has increaed 16 fold, upwards of some 22 trillions dollars with hardly any change on the poverty dial.  Adjusting for inflation, more money has been spent in this war than on all military wars since and including our Revolution.

I have heard from politicians how we were causing global cooling, then global warming and now global climate change.  And yet, if what was taught me in school was correct, the planet has gone through many global shifts of temperature (some called ice ages - sound familiar?) before man even arrived on the planet.  And, I have noticed that in the last decade and a half, the temperture has not changed.  None of what Al Gore prophecied in the 90s has come true in spite of the fact that CO2 emmisionns have continued to rise.  Even the ozone (remember that spot) has apparently been closing up.  Go figure!

Our politicians remind me of some religious leaders in the apostle Paul's day (and some today) who "do not know what they are talking about or what they so confidently affirm" (1 Tim 1:7).  It amazes me that they believe by taxing a "carbon footprint" (one of the largest, by the way, is Al Gore's) that mankind can predict and change the course of world weather and climate for the next 100 years or more but at the same time can't get next week weather right half the time.  Let alone change it.

The all wise politicians confidently affirm we can choose our global climate but don''t believe an individual can choose their sexual preference.  They equate sexual preference with race.  And yet, the Bible is clear that it is sin to "practice homosexuality (not have homosexual tendencies or urges)" (1 Tim 1:10).  On the other hand, one do not pratice race, you simply are.  And, why no one has ever pulled off choosing another race, many have chosen to leave a homosexual lifestyle or heterosexual one for that matter.

With all these confused but confident leaders feeding us a line of ignorance, may I suggest that we actually "study to show ourselves approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed but rightly handles the word of truth" (2 Tim 2:15).  Read the Bible for yourself, study history for yourself, think through scientific claims, be in charge of your own beliefs.  Be people not sheeples when it come to human proclamations.  Jus' Sayn.