Columnist Thomas Bray tells about...
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Columnist Thomas Bray tells about a speech to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco given by Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain. In that speech, Crichton made the point that environmentalism is a religion. It supposes an environmental Eden. It teaches a fall from grace and a corrupting of the environment by pollution and man's plundering of natural resources, and it predicts a judgment day coming for us all, such as a global shortage of food, or violent changes in our climate, or an inundating of our coastal cities. Crichton, who holds an M.D. from Harvard Medical School, claimed that the religion of environmentalism is not based on scientific fact, but is primarily myth, and that most of the dire predictions of doom have failed to materialize.
God, through Isaiah, pictures his creating of Israel as the planting of a vineyard ... beautiful, cared for, and fertile. But his people did not appreciate what God had created. Because his people violated his creation, because they failed to live up to his expectations, because they did not produce that which praises and honors him, he pronounces his judgment upon them. And his predictions of doom have needed no modifications, adjustments, or postponements.
God, through Isaiah, pictures his creating of Israel as the planting of a vineyard ... beautiful, cared for, and fertile. But his people did not appreciate what God had created. Because his people violated his creation, because they failed to live up to his expectations, because they did not produce that which praises and honors him, he pronounces his judgment upon them. And his predictions of doom have needed no modifications, adjustments, or postponements.
