The Patriot's Flag

Today I am flying the Ft. Moultrie Flag. I fly this Patriot Flag on days when I post a blog with a subject of “Discussion threatening Liberty.”  Environmentalists have created their own pseudo-religion that is beginning to interfere with my Liberty and Freedom.

Environmental Religion

No Kool Aid for Me! At first its just a “political theory” and if people want to go off an believe in something off-the-wall, let them, I believe in Liberty and Freedom, everyone deserves both. If people want to drink Kool Aid in Jonestown, or sign on to “save the planet,”  (this is the same planet that will be here long after they have perished), let them. They should be FREE to do what they want, but don’t send me a plane ticket to Guyana and tell me to “drink up.”  When MY taxes go up because of “their misplaced beliefs” … and MY liberty and freedom are threatened by their “pseudo-religion” … then I start getting angry.  And that’s where we are today with Cap and Trade hovering over us, supported by a bunch of people who have fallen for the false Religion of Environmentalism... it is unprovable, it is simply a belief, and is not sustained by the facts.

This “environmental crusade” has gone too far, and its time to start calling these environmentalists what they are, religious fanatics.  There are thousands of blogs giving us “facts” about global warming, energy, etc. Lets just look at two graphs showing the resources of energy for the world. Unlike what we are being told by the state-controlled news media, there is no shortage of fuel, there is also no danger from CO2, there is no global warming caused by man.  What is sad about this is that (1) the news media reports these pseudo-religious beliefs as  TRUTH, and (2) we have a uneducated populace that is sufficiently UNeducated to believe the premises and preachers promoting this  new false religion.  How can some people look right at the facts and yet be blind to them?  Because they “believe” something different. Lets begin with some DOCUMENTED fact to demonstrate the example:

On the left, the graph clearly depict that the United States has 28% of the world’s coal supply. What it does not depict is that we also have 90% of the technology to make coal a safe and viable energy source for the United States.

But we are told we cannot use coal because it is not “clean” energy. It causes CO2.  Yeah, so what?  What’s wrong with CO2.  If you have any brain left and research it, you’ll see that it is NOT a toxic gas and it is not altering the environment.

But it causes global warming!  Yeah?  Prove it!  … and you cannot! So why are we told we cannot use coal as an energy source when we hve 28% of the world’s supply?

And on the right, we have a graph that clearly depicts America’s true oil potential … this is potentially recoverable oil right here in the United States of America.

According to the Congressional Research Service in their pdf, which you can view and download here you can make the following statement:

HumanEvents.com: As shown in the charts below, the U.S. has 1,321 billion barrels of oil (or barrels of oil equivalent for other sources of energy) when combining its recoverable natural gas, oil and coal reserves. While Russia is a close second with 1,248 billion barrels, other energy producing nations are far behind. No. 3 is Saudi Arabia (543 billion barrels), followed by China (494 billion barrels), Iran (426 billion barrels) and Canada (221 billion barrels.)

Why do people “believe” otherwise? So we are not running out of resources, we have more than anyone else in the world. We are “running out” of them because the environmentalists and socialists have convinced an uneducated populace that this is true.  They have “sold” people into BELIEVING we are running out of resources. And why would they do this? (Follow the money … increased taxes anyone?).  But the big question is why were some  people willing to go to Jonestown and drink the [poisoned] Kool Aid, or just as blindly, today believe these environmental distortions? Both had and have to do with religion and beliefs.

Because people need to “believe” in something when they’ve lost faith in everything else.

“The simplification of anything is always sensational.

“The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right.”

“This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.”

If People Fail to Believe in God, They Will Believe in Anything

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Mankind must “believe.” What Chesterton is saying in the last comment is that mankind has this genetically-coded urge to believe in something. Man has, throughout history, created religions and gods (and this long before there was a Jew, Christian or Muslim). If man didn’t understand something, he simply made a god of it and worshiped it to explain away his lack of understanding. They created symbols and icons to mark their progress toward whatever utopia that fitted into their belief system.  Then they blindly follow the milestones, thanking their new god as they make the journey.

The Belief Vacuum. Today, there is an unfortunate lack of “belief” in God, regardless of what s/he is named.  There is a parallel lack of belief in this great country, in its ideals and its profound (planned-not-accidental) success. And when these  basic values are no longer believed, there is a vacuum in the human mind that must be filled to honor the human genetically-coded need for believing in something.  Today, “Environmentalism” has moved from a do-gooder (save the trees) theory to an emerging  religion.  It gives the unbeliever something to believe in.  Unbelievers who have either lost traditional beliefs or were never taught them in the first place. When a society is “dumbed down” …  it become vulnerable to false religions and man-made beliefs. The vacuum sucks them in to whatever folly the next false leader puts before them.

Explaining the Obvious. If you understood God, or may just understood logic, you wouldn’t be worried about CO2. You would simply be awed by the power of the sun that warms the planet during the day, and allows the planet to cool during the night. Global warming and cooling happens each day, even insects have the brainpower to understand that, basing daily and seasonal behavior upon temperature. The earth is tilted in its orbit, hence the sun’s intensity changes causing summer and winter. Also, the sun changes intensity with its own solar cycles, sometimes  with more sunspots, sometimes with less … sometimes hotter sometimes cooler.  The result is the earth warms and cools depending upon the sun. (Period!)

Filling the Vacuum: If you don’t understand this simple truth of global warming and cooling, then you  are “genetically-coded” to create something to explain it … man-made global warming fits the bill perfectly, CO2, pollution, oil, big corporations, etc. The people who have nothing else to believe in “see” something, they place “blame” (The Devil, Bogeyman, Big Oil), they form a theory to give it validity (Global Warming) then are self-encouraged to believe in it (we must save the planet).  With the new religion in place, they will then blindly attack all doubts and facts to the contrary. (Because they cannot allow others to think they made a mistake in the original hypothesis, or the new religion would collapse). And then to sustain it, how about some government control?  This just to keep the global warming in balance? In a god-less vacuum, mankind will be creative and fill the vacuum…. the result this time is the new Environmental Religion.

Environmental Sheeple The uneducated “followers” of this new religion are the saddest part of the commentary, just simple sheeple.  They are easily being led by some evil shepherds  who want to do this country and this society great harm.  These  false leaders are the SAME people from the 60′s who then wanted to “burn it down” and “blow it up” … and now they sit at the right and left hands of the President of the United States … who himself listened to his pastor say “God Damn America!” and thought nothing of it.  These 60′s radical “leaders” understand the concepts of moving the uneducated, utilizing their blinded belief in Environmentalism  toward their own form of religion… Socialism. And this is cloaked under the guise of “saving the planet” the holy robe of the new religion … something “everyone” should believe in! Who would not want the planet to be saved?

Freedom of Religion: Every skeptic of every religion ends the debate by saying “Prove it!” … which cannot be done … as the Arch Bishop of Canterbury once said, “You must believe in order to see, not see in order to believe.“   So belief needs no “proof” … you are simply FREE TO CHOOSE to believe or not.  And one could say the same for the Environmental Religion.  The difference here is the forced-conversion factor. In America, we are FREE to choose (or not) our religion of choice.   However, if a member of  another religion tells use we must believe in what they believe, then there is a problem.  And WE are not the problem, those forcing a foreign religion upon us ARE the problem!

I do not accept the precepts of Environmental Religion,

that is my CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT!

The First Amendment: In the United States, freedom of religion is a constitutionally guaranteed right provided in the religion clauses of the First Amendment.

Taxation to Pay for a False Religion? Forcing this pseudo-religion on me and increasing my taxes to pay for it (Cap and Trade) is a direct assault on my First Amendment Constitutional rights. And to take it a step further, it was Thomas Jefferson who put forth the idea of separation of church and state.  For the “revisionists” among us, this should fit right into the debate. The Constitution protects me from being forced into a church, ANY church! So I will not be FORCED to believe in or support a religion which to me is sheer folly. Nor should I be coerced to contribute my wealth to a church I refuse to join.  The Constitution gives me the right not to accede to such religious beliefs. The foundation of our Republic is based upon freedom of religion…. and in this case, freedom FROM religion. Do you believe we should “pay” for someone’s religion in which we don’t believe?  Cap and Trade is proposing just that!   If you want to drink the Environmental Kool Aid … have at it. You want to pay extra taxes to support YOUR beliefs, go right ahead … you have the FREEDOM to do both, and I support your right to do what you feel is right.  I could care less what you think or do with your money. Frankly, its none of my business, just don’t ask me to join you and don’t ask for my money to support your folly.

You should have the Liberty and Freedom to believe what you want …

Just don’t use your religion to encroach upon MY Liberty and Freedom …

Because, then you’ve got a new problem … me!

(and if you hadn’t noticed,  I’m starting to lose my temper!).

1. The Patriot’s Flag: ClimateGate’s Blue Dress
2. AmericanThinker: Global Warming is a Religion (must read!!!)
3. Sppiblog: A Complete List of things caused by global warming

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