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• Monday, November 3, 2008 06:58 AM

  @ cabdriver, who wrote:

  "I can't help but scratch my head over people who deride the faith-based spritual idealism of others- which is inherently ultimately an individual and subjective decision affecting personal consciousness, a realm where people ought to be allowed a wide latitude in their own ideas- while professing their own dire certainties about future prospects for the planet, and covering it with a gloss of 'scientific objectivity.'"

  After a lifetime of trying, I've reached a point where I can't honor most allegations of faith. Certainly, if a person lives in a fine house and asserts faith, I can't, for even if they read the Bible, there's not sufficient comprehension. I have met a few true Christians. They're not physically close to me, for they're afar, serving the poor. They don't jibber-jabber about their faith. They live it. They follow in the footsteps of Jesus. And they suffer for it.

  Cabdriver again:

  "I'm particularly bemused when the certainties take the form of pessimistic nihilism. Great...you're a rational humanist materialist; concommitantly, humanity is all doomed, a pox on the planet."

  Oh, don't be bemused. My conceding that this planet would be better balanced without us isn't a happy concession.

  Cabdriver again:

  "But human-caused global warming cannot be said to be "scientifically proven." We're still in the midst of the "experiment", after all. Neither can the catastrophic consequences that being forecast be said to be inevitabilities."

  Sure, that's so. Our bodies often surpass the understanding of docs. The Earth is a guhzillion times more complex. Still, predictions were made and not only are they coming true, but at much faster rates than expected. I think it's going to be worse than expected...for us. However, in the long run, the Earth will do just fine. I think, if Jesus is the Son of God, given what Jesus said about the very few who would reach Heaven, that it's going to be much worse for most alleged Christians than they expect.

  Cabdriver again:

  "If you view those consequences as a certainty- well, as yet, you're simply entering another belief system."

  Yep. I'm believing in cause and effect. It's a pretty good belief system.

  —bigguns Read bigguns's other letters
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