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Monastic republic chartered in 972 forbids females, welcomes peace.

By Neil Averitt

Chicago Tribune

Clocks here run on Byzantine time, which starts at sunset. Dates are calculated according to the Julian calendar of the Roman Empire, which differs by 13 days from the modern Gregorian calendar you're used to. Some settlements are supplied solely by mule teams, and the flag of Byzantium still flies.

Radio? Television? Newspapers? Paved roads? If they didn't exist in the year 972, you probably won't find them here.

And if you're a woman, you'd better make other plans. Females have been forbidden here for a thousand years. Not even female animals are permitted.

Mount Athos is an Eastern Orthodox monastic republic and, astonishingly, a surviving administrative unit of the Byzantine Empire - a fully functioning ministate with roads, settlements and a capital city, all operating under a charter granted by the Byzantine emperor at Constantinople in 972.

That world is preserved here in great detail and texture. Clothes, music, roads, public fountains, aqueducts, arched stone bridges, vegetable plots - all are from another age. Even the shiniest new chapel is built with traditional Byzantine-style brickwork, the product of a living culture.

Legally, Mount Athos is an autonomous region in northeast Greece, with most characteristics of an independent state. Visitors must show passports on the way in and undergo customs inspections on the way out.

Psychologically and geographically, it's a world apart. It's perched on a hilly, heavily forested peninsula - 6 miles wide and 35 miles long - which terminates in the peak of Mount Athos itself, 6,700 feet high, that drops into the Aegean. Scattered over this rugged landscape are 20 large monasteries, a dozen smaller communities, innumerable hermitages and 2,000 monks. The whole place is reachable only by boat.

This exotic little state has many features of a truly great travel destination:

Grand architecture.

Hiking trails along clifftops or through virgin forests.

Guest rooms in monasteries.

Meals of fresh, natural foods.

A chance to talk with wise and thoughtful men about the nature of the good life and the state of your soul.

And no one can justly complain about the price: In the tradition of monastic hospitality, each monastery offers two meals and a night's lodging for free, then sends you on your way. You can spend a week at Mount Athos, as I recently did, without spending a dime.

That is, if they'll admit you.

Mount Athos guards its isolation and discourages casual visitors. To be admitted, I had to prepare a letter for the central Pilgrims' Bureau, explaining why I wanted to go there. Fortunately, I had a decent reason: After years of legal practice, I was ready for a seriously nonmaterialistic pilgrimage. I was granted one of 10 permits issued each day for non-Orthodox visitors.

I entered, as most visitors do, through the town of Ouranopolis, a honky-tonk resort 75 miles southeast of Thessaloniki. This is the end of the road from the outside world. I boarded a ferry for the two-hour ride along the coast to the little town of Daphne, the port of Mount Athos.

The most striking piece of architecture is the monastery of Simonopetra, where I stayed the first night. It rises like a fortress on an outcrop of rock 1,000 feet above the sea. The bottom 40 feet of its walls are stone, but the top four stories have rickety wooden balconies. Walking on them provides an early test of one's faith and serenity. There are gaps between the floorboards - it's a long way down.

Like most of the monasteries, Simonopetra is filled with the sounds of heavy renovation. Just 30 years ago, it appeared that Athos was about to die out. The buildings were in disrepair, and most of the monks were old. Today, however, the average age has fallen to about 40, young monks are common, and many of the new entrants are highly educated. One is a former Harvard professor.

There's a new generation of charismatic leader (some have fled from places like Meteora in central Greece, which became too touristy for monastic practice), and a more communal and tightly organized way of life.

It was at Simonopetra that I began to learn the basic routine on Mount Athos.

At 3:30 a.m., a monk taps a wooden board called a talanton to wake everyone for 4 o'clock services, which begin in total darkness and run for three hours. After breakfast, there's a ferry ride or a few hours' hike to the next monastery. The host monk greets you, offers jellied candy and cool water, and explains the layout and schedule of the monastery. Ninety percent of pilgrims are Greek, but most guestmasters speak at least a little English.

Then there are a few quiet hours to explore, talk with the monks, attend afternoon services and have dinner. After more free time, it's time for bed, at 9:30 p.m. - and an easy sleep of a stress-free life.

My next day's destination was the Danieleon - not a monastery, but a freestanding house for five or 10 monks at the end of the peninsula.

The monks are famous for their expert chanting. They start in the morning darkness, in a little chapel dimly lit with a few olive-oil lamps. In this darkness comes a sonorous, complex, humming harmony, soothing and otherworldly - a perfect accompaniment to three hours of meditation.

Not everything was sweetness and light. At dinnertime the previous night, I was sent outside to eat on the terrace. This was presumably because I was non-Orthodox. The non-Orthodox are sometimes sent to secondary places on Athos, particularly during church services. But the monks did invite me into the chapel for the morning service.

Next on my journey was Grigoriou, a midsize monastery on the rocks just above the sea. It's noted for the friendliness of its monks: Benches and kiosks are arranged for easy conversation. Visitors gather around the monks in twos and threes, talking quietly, often comparing Orthodoxy and Western Christianity.

A novice at one of the monasteries - a former teacher of classics - explained that Western churches often take positions on issues of social justice. The Orthodox church, in contrast, is concerned with the person's inner peace and the relationship to God.

Monastery food is always plain and fresh, but it varies in sophistication. Some places serve a simple bowl of lentils; others offer artichoke hearts in lemon sauce. Dinner at Grigoriou ended with an excellent chocolate torte.

The monastery of Vatopedi is definitely at the urbane end of the scale. It's one of the largest on the mountain, with a courtyard that looks like the center of an Italian Renaissance town. One of the monks said that Britain's Prince Charles, a regular visitor to Mount Athos, had been a guest there a few weeks earlier.

Because Mount Athos is basically a cooperative of private monasteries, women are banned. There's a belief that Christ gave the peninsula to his mother, Mary, to be her private garden, and other women are excluded to honor her.

There have been a few exceptions to the ban. During the Greek Civil War, Mount Athos granted sanctuary to refugees, including women and girls. And in the 1930s, a Greek beauty queen, Aliki Diplarakou, sneaked in, dressed as a man.

For the male visitor, the absence of women seems to ease communication among the men and to heighten introspection. Many fear that if the ban were removed, Mount Athos would become a tourist destination, its distinctive atmosphere lost.

As my week wound down, I realized that a kind of "spiritual detox" had taken place. I felt I had been on Mount Athos long enough when I began to look forward to the predawn ritual, when I accepted with contentment whatever portion of food was offered, and when I felt no particular compulsion to learn the latest news. I did, however, miss the reliable hot showers of the outside world.

On the way back to the ferry and the mainland, I passed through the town of Karyes, the administrative seat of Mount Athos and, with a population of about 350, surely the smallest and dustiest capital in Europe. The main street has a few general stores. Pack mules are a common sight, but I was able to buy a candy bar.

Arriving in Ouranopolis, I experienced culture shock: Women. Children. Cars. Crowds. I soon adjusted, but the memory of Athos lingered. And I had packed a Byzantine flag as a souvenir.

Mount Athos

Mount Athos admits about 120 Orthodox and 10 non-Orthodox visitors per day.

For entry permits:

Mount Athos

Pilgrims' Bureau

109 Egnatia St., GR-54635 Thessaloniki, Greece

Phone: 011-30-2310-252578

The monasteries also can be seen from the sea on tour boats out

of Ouranopolis.

More information

Friends of Mount Athos

www.bates.edu/~rallison/friends

Welcome to Mount Athos

Decmber 13, 2007

(Peloponnese, Greece) His father is in Patras on kidney dialysis and his wife is in Athens in her fifth month of pregnancy, so Vasili can’t spend much time lamenting the loss of half his herd of goats, sheep and some 85 olive trees to last summer’s wildfires in Greece. Vasili, 37, had previously finished a 14-month stretch of working 18-hour days in Germany for extra money so that he could return to the village of Pelopio to upgrade his father’s farm. “The animals are my tools,” says Vasili, “like a taxi driver has a taxi, I had my animals. The trees will grow back but the animals were my daily income.”

Like many of the farmers who have received emergency supplies of animal feed from International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC), Vasili is choosing to remain in one of Greece’s rural areas in order to keep his family business, and an entire way of life, alive. IOCC’s latest distribution, over 400 metric tons of animal feed benefitting 130,000 heads of livestock, is made possible through a grant from the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.

Niko, his brother and sister are also determined to keep their family farm in the village of Leondari. They lived their childhood years in an era of old-world traditions as their parents and multiple generations before them wove fabric, sowed and tilled the land by hand. Niko and his siblings decided to create the “Ecological Footpath”, a model of a working farm based on traditional farming techniques. The wildfires devastated their organic stables, their open range pastures, and the structure of their natural amphitheatre. IOCC is helping to keep their livestock alive in the short term and has also given them forage seed so they can replant their grasslands for a long term solution to the problem.

Yianni and his son Kosta of the village of Chelidonia in Ileia Prefecture are working long days to maintain their livelihood. Kosta is picking olives on a farm in a neighboring village although ten of his friends left for Athens after the wildfires to find work. “They had no choice,” says Kosta, “they will probably not return.” Yianni saved some of his animals during the wildfires but could not salvage the two tons of animal feed he had warehoused. IOCC’s donation of feed and Kosta’s hard work on the neighboring farm will keep the family going until father and son can rebuild their stable and warehouse.

“The key to IOCC’s success in the Peloponnese since early September has been the cooperation we have with local municipalities and Orthodox priests,” says Dimitri Djukic of IOCC Greece. He is based in the town of Pyrgos to oversee IOCC's distribution to local farmers.

IOCC’s total relief and recovery program for Greece has exceeded $500,000 and has included two distributions of feed totaling 610 metric tons and 20 metric tons of forage seed to allow Greek farmers to permanently restore their grasslands. “People are grateful for what they have received thus far,” says IOCC Development Director Daniel Christopulos. “But winter is coming and the need to keep livestock alive is the number one issue for Peloponnese farmers.”

IOCC, founded in 1992 as the official humanitarian aid agency of the Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas (SCOBA), has implemented over $250 million in relief and development programs in 33 countries around the world.

To help in providing emergency relief, call IOCC's donation hotline toll-free at 1-877-803-4622, make a gift on-line at www.iocc.org, or mail a check or money order payable to “IOCC” and write "Greece Wildfires" in the memo line to: IOCC, P.O. Box 630225, Baltimore, Md. 21263-0225.

When the Beatles arrived in the mid 1960’s, parents were shocked again this time by the mop-top haircuts. But young people were swept away by the infectious enthusiasm of their music. After the Beatles, more shocks were in store as groups like the Rolling Stones and the Animals popularized a more coarse, gritty, and vulgar style of blues-influenced rock.

Still later, the psychedelic explosion brought new controversy to the world of rock. Bands such as the Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead openly lived a hippie lifestyle and freely admitted to the use of drugs like marijuana and LSD. This was a new source of alarm for parents as young people adopted hippie ways and the abuse of drugs became epidemic. In the twenty years that have followed, rock ‘n’ rollers have continued to try to keep the shock waves coming with the violent aggressiveness of “heavy metal” rock, the open rebellion of “punk” rock, and music advocating sexual promiscuity, homosexuality, drug abuse, and finally, Satanism, the worship of the devil.

However, one thing has changed over the 30+ years of rock history. People aren’t shocked much anymore. Parents aren’t alarmed much anymore. Rock ‘n’ rollers are still putting in a mighty effort to keep the shocks coming, but the fact is that rock has become accepted in our society. Rock music that I would have considered radical when I was a teenager is now commonly heard on commercials. Even an old rocker like Eric Clapton, who spearheaded the group “Cream” in the 60’s, is shown playing live on a beer commercial on T.V. Many parents are now content to keep their kids quiet by letting them stay glued to MTV at home.

The question for us is, how should we, as Orthodox Christians, and especially, as Orthodox parents, approach the subject of rock ‘n’ roll? Should we be in a continual state of alarm? Should we, as some preachers and churches do, condemn rock as evil, forbid our children to listen to any of it, and burn the records or tapes we might have? Or should we simply accept rock? Should we just figure our children are good Orthodox young people and music can’t have any bad effect on them?

How about “none of the above” for an answer?

Before we get into this, let me point out one thing. It is nearly impossible to generalize about rock ‘n’ roll. If someone says “rock is this,” someone else can always show an exception, and say, “no, rock is that!” So I cannot give you a lot of easy absolutes about rock. I can only indicate general trends in rock music. But my observations do come from 25 years of watching the rock scene. So I’m not just “shooting from the hip” on the subject like some preachers do, which unfortunately only encourages rock enthusiasts to casually dismiss their criticisms.

So how do we approach rock? If we can just use one word, that word should be “honestly.” We must be honest and unprejudiced as we attempt to analyze it.

Viewing rock honestly means, first of all, that we can say there is some good in rock music. The person who cares to listen closely to rock can find examples of deep human sensitivity, elevated poetry, valid social criticism, inspired performing, and expert musicianship. And all of these are things that an Orthodox Christian can and should appreciate. But more than this, occasionally in rock music, we find themes that are genuinely biblical and Christian.

When I was a teenager, a group called the “Quicksilver Messenger Service” did a song called “Pride of Man” about God’s judgment on sinful human pride — full of material from the Bible. More recently, a group called “Mister Mister” did a song called “Kyrie Eleison” — right out of the Liturgy. Other groups like “The Call,” “U2,” and several others have distinctly Christian and Biblical themes to much of their music. Several groups have even done modern renditions of old hymns. So there are things in rock music that even the strictest of us can appreciate.

But while there is some good in rock music, there is much evil. (However, most rock music falls somewhere in between. It is not completely good or totally evil. Like most of life, it contains some of each). And just as we can enjoy the good, we must recognize and reject evil. I would list some of the wrongs in rock under the following categories:

1. Sex and Lust — While male-female attraction has always been a part of music, art, and literature, and rightly so, because it is a normal and healthy part of life, much rock music serves to celebrate the most crude forms of lust: casual and promiscuous sex, the use of women purely as sex objects, bisexuality and homosexuality. For example, a video by the group “Motley Crue” called “Girls, Girls, Girls”, takes you into one striptease bar after another. A popular song from a year or two ago called “Sugar Walls” is about a woman inviting a man to experience the pleasure of her sexual organs. A song on the charts just recently stated the message pretty bluntly: “I Want Your Sex” was the title of it. In addition to these there are many more with a much more subtle message that is basically the same. This is the greatest moral failing of much rock music: It celebrates, not the marriage that God has called pure, but the most crude forms of lust.

This fascination with crude and debased sexuality is why (I think) we see so much androgyny or sexual confusion, among rock stars. Many male rock personalities, following the early lead of the Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger, deliberately put forth a sexual image that confuses male and female elements. They wear makeup, style their hair in a feminine way and adopt many of the other trappings of female sexuality. Of course, this is appropriate for much of the rock world, which seeks to cultivate an atmosphere of unbridled lust where all normal standards and distinctions disappear.

2. Rebellion — Rebellion has been one of the key themes of rock since the very beginning. Since rock is basically music for teenagers, rock ‘n’ rollers have seized on and exploited the natural rebelliousness of teens with much success. Rock has attacked parents, school, society, Church, and even God Himself — anything that would be an impediment to a completely uninhibited pursuit of pleasure.

I was one who went through a decidedly rebellious stage during my teen years. Many years later, I was talking to one of my fellow rebels about what motivated us to rebel. Looking back at it, it seemed that we had very little reason. He then made a remark that illuminated the question. Although he’s not what I would call a practicing Christian, he said, “You know how people are always saying that rock music is an instrument of the devil. I really think that it was the music that made us rebel.” The more I thought about it, the more sense this suggestion made. After all, when I was young, one of my favorite songs was called “It’s My Life and I’ll Do What I Want!” Not a message that would encourage you to cooperate very much with parents or school!

3. Violence and Aggression — A third danger in much rock music is its appeal to violence and aggression. You can see this if you’ve ever taken the time to watch much MTV. After the preoccupation with sex and lust, violent and aggressive behavior is its most outstanding characteristic. There’s a simple reason for this: Most rock is not intellectual or spiritual music; it’s meant to connect directly with the most base and low levels of the unconscious mind.

So-called “heavy metal” rock is a good example of this. This music is the loudest, most abrasive, most violent and aggressive form of rock music. Who does it appeal to? Mostly boys aged 13-18. Why does it appeal to them? Because it connects directly with the chaotic and aggressive forces in their minds.

This is an example of why you’ll notice a sudden and intense interest in music in most kids today at about age 13 — just about the age of puberty. Rock music connects immediately and directly with what they feel inside, but in a way that bypasses their mind and understanding. All they know is that it’s just perfect — it’s just what they always wanted without being aware of it. And in the case of young boys, it’s because it seizes on and gives form and substance to all that stuff in their unconscious minds particularly their violent and aggressive tendencies.

4. Immediate gratification — A last feature of rock that probably includes the other three is the emphasis on immediate gratification. I won’t say much about this other than the fact that most rock does not appeal to people to deny themselves and struggle to gain the true blessings of life; rather, it preaches and practices immediate gratification and excitement here and now — forget about tomorrow. (This is why drugs have been so right at home in the rock scene). Needless to say, this appeals to many teenagers, but it is a totally disastrous attitude both spiritually and in terms of maturity.

Now, finally before I finish, I want to take a couple of minutes to discuss the role of Satanism in rock music.

Interest in Satan, black magic, and things of that sort first started developing among rock musicians in the late 1960’s when drug experimentation began to get serious among them. Their interest in the altered states of mind brought about by drugs soon led some to a fascination with the supernatural, the mysterious, and the bizarre. You may remember that the Beatles became disciples of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi soon after their period of drug experimentation began. Not long afterward, the Rolling Stones produced an album entitled “At Their Satanic Majesties Request;” their involvement with black magic and Satanism during this period has been documented. Later, some of the “heavy metal” groups began adopting much of the trappings, symbolism and rhetoric of Satanism.

As far as I can tell, their motivation was basically the same rock desire for shock value, plus a desire to associate themselves with a symbol of the mysterious, the awesome and the powerful. So why not use the premier symbol of unbridled lust, rebellion, violence and aggression, and immediate gratification? Who better than Satan himself to fit the role?

Some rock musicians have no doubt actually practiced Satan worship, but as far as I know, they’re in the minority. The majority of those who’ve adopted the Satanic imagery have done so out of sensationalism and the desire to clothe themselves with this image of evil. But in doing so, these musicians have been primarily responsible for the dramatic rise in Satanic practices among young people today.

It’s interesting to note that recent resurgence in Satanic worship and activity has almost directly followed the introduction of MTV showing these various heavy metal groups with all their Satanic symbolism. The Satanic activity of the late 1960’s had almost totally fizzled out until MTV came along. The sad thing is, a lot of young people have been led into insanity and demon-possession by these practices, to say nothing of the rumors of child sacrifice and other horrible practices that we hear about. (And think about this: if your kids are in high school, they probably know someone who’s engaged in Satanism of some kind. It has become rampant). So what are parents to do?

I think it is our serious responsibility to pay close attention to what our kids are listening to — to look at the albums and tapes they bring home. Look for the signs I’ve listed — listen to the words — for inappropriate sexual content, rebellion, violence or aggression and especially anything that smacks of the Satanic. If there’s a problem in any of these areas, then that music doesn’t belong in your home and neither you nor your kids should be listening to it. (One point in our favor, though, is that most kids really pay little attention to the words in the music they listen to). However, we should still be concerned, although it would be a mistake to throw all rock music out because some is bad.

As parents, most of us try to give our children the best we can to prepare them for success in this life. How much more important it is to care for the salvation of their souls, that they become devoted lovers of Christ. We cannot allow rock music — or anything else for that matter — as far as we can prevent it, to interfere with that process.

Father Paul is the pastor of St. George Church in San Diego, California. He is very much interested in youth problems.

By Fr. Paul O'Callaghan

From Word Magazine

Publication of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America

October 1988

pp. 5-6

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"Of the many seasons, the Sowmo season (Sowmo Syr. Means Lent) is the season which includes the Great Lent and comprises of seven weeks with seven Sundays. The Holy Fathers have conceptualized the Lectionary in a divine manner which calls in for deep thinking."
It has been aptly said that ‘A fast in the flesh is a feast in the soul’. Fasting purifies and enlightens the soul. And in this context the Great Lent purifies the soul and prepares the faithful for a pilgrimage which leads him from mortality to immortality and transforms him from earthly creature into a spiritual being. This transition is possible only by purifying him of his deadly sins in his flesh and is a graded process. This transition can be cited in the Lectionary readings of the Sundays of Great Lent which is as follows

Kothine Sunday ( John 2:1-11) The Feast at Cana

Garbo Sunday( Luke 5:12-16): The cure of Leper

M’sharyo Sunday (Mark 2;1-12, John 5:1-18)The cure of the paralysed

Knanaitho Sunday ( Mathew 15:12-31) The cure of Cananite’s daughter

Ash Wednesday ( John 7:14-15,3:13-21)

K’piptho Sunday (Luke 13:10-17)The cure of the hunchback

Semiyo Sunday (John 9:1-11) The cure of the blind

Hosanna Sunday and Easter Sunday (The Lord’s arrival and resurrection)


This splendid concept envisioned by the Holy Fathers is truly divine and should be a matter of meditation on each Sowmo season. Our transformation into a pilgrim is really laborious. The need for attending Church, partaking of Sacraments, interceding to Saints, wearing the Cross, observing the Church rituals and traditions – all are essential in our way to salvation. By simply saying, ‘I believe in Christ’ as taught by neo-Christian fellowships, won't entitle us salvation. So let us transform into a pilgrim and keep our track on the spiritual path to salvation.

http://www.socdigest.org/articles/01jan08.html

Great Lent in the Coptic Church

http://st-takla.org/Feastes-&-Special-Events/Great-Lent-Baskha/Coptic-El-Soom-Al-Kabir-03-Article-on-Fasting.html
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The Copts have seasons of fasting like no other Christian community because they fast for over 210 days out of a 365 day year. When fasting, the Copts can eat no animal products, including poultry, meat, fish, eggs, and milk. Also, no food or drink is allowed between the hours of sunrise and sunset. Lent, known as “the Great Fast,” is the main fast of the Copts. Lent starts with a pre-Lent fast of one week, followed by a forty day fast commemorating Christ’s fasting on the mountain, followed by the holy week of the Coptic calendar called Pascha. Lent climaxes with Good Friday and ends with Easter."

Great Lent Resources

http://lent.goarch.org/articles.asp#a_lent

THE ORIGIN OF FASTING

One may ask how the Institute of fasting originated. Was it a tradition handed down by the Apostles? Was it determined as such by the early Church? Was the duration of fasting established from the beginning? These and similar questions require an answer.

Fasting before Easter was not determined by the early Church as such either in specific days or for certain foods. In the New Testament the word for fasting, nesteia, means abstinence from food entirely, and was originally a Jewish custom reluctantly practiced by the Jews, although it was not an official requirement. Bishop Irenaios of Lyon (192) wrote a letter to the Bishop of Rome that there is a great difference about the duration of fasting before Easter. Some people, he wrote, fast one day, others two, still others more days. Some of them fast 40 hours continuously, day and night, from all foods (Eusebuis, Ecclesiastical History, 524,12). Tertuuian, an ecclesiastical writer of the 3rd century, refers to abstinence from foods as being two days, Friday and Saturday. Some of the early Christians abstained from foods the whole day and ate only in the evenings, while others ate not at all, day or night, as did those who were fasting for 40 hours. Other Christians extended the period of fasting beyond the two days to one week (during the mid-third century),'but everyone was allowed to extend the duration of fasting as long as he wanted. Thus, these Christians added hours and days of fasting at their own will, beyond the customary duration of time (Dionysios, Bishop of Alexandria, P. G. Migne 10, 1278).

Kevin( Contributing Editor)

Climate change has been a naked science –proven reality for the elites of the scientific community and a multitude of few political chauvinists; the shrewd vote-catching politicians ignored the wild cry of the majority fair-thinking citizens about the impending dangers of the Nature- bashing economy. Giving a high-flying life and a pleasure- thrill economy that instills confidence and consumerism has been the language of the ruling class for all these years of industrialization. A don’t care attitude that looks after one’s own conceited interest is the lingua franca of human animals. Knowing that we are only the stewards of the earthly house of the Lord, not owners of this ephemeral life is the best knowledge that one can cultivate during this horrid life of uncertainties. The tenants have no right to reshape the house and the topography of the vicinity. Our main aim in this life is to worship that is by serving the creatures of the Creator, not for exploiting his own brother by destroying the ecosystem for enhancing our fat. The latest invention of eco theology seemingly is a product and a part of liberation theology that offers false hope of earthly salvation.

Climate change, a very hot and current topic that even ferment and change the roadmap of nations and politics of our times. To restore the virginity of mother earth is a high and noble ambition; it is like transforming the geriatric ward as a section of pediatric cenre. As man is an essence of cosmic and terrestrial elements, it is inextricably impossible to separate the vital unit while he is moving around this planet. While the outer frame of man is an integral part of this earth, the primary aim of our body is to move in unison with the rhythm of the terrestrial universe that controls climate: weather, winds, temperature and consequently the habitats of the different zones of the earth, just as the first apparent role of our urinary/genital organs is for the urinary function, while the inevitable and vital role is the genital imperatives that dictate the propagation of the race through sexual union. Similar is the inextricable union of body and soul that intermingle together for the harmonious function of our earthly existence. Climate though apparently has no direct influence on the soul; the indirect magnetism from the body is an important factor for the metamorphosis of the inner being. The position of the sun and earth’s gravitational forces that play a crucial role reveal that if we overheat the environment that fiddle with the positions and the rotation of the planets in their axes, the dangerous aftermath is our own annihilation. Climate and weather, the destiny of man on earth should not be altered by the idiosyncratic moods or the selfishness of man.

Man, however, is destined to die, so also is the planet earth from which man is formed; the Creator has set a definite mandate for the slow disappearance of this earth. While there is clear-cut evidence that this earth is destined to be burnt up, why should we make pretence of ignoring and scoffing of this knowledge of wisdom passed on to us by the great seers? “ But by the same word heavens and earth that now exist have been stored up for fire,…The Lord is not slow about his promise of some count slowness, but is forbearing towards you,…But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up”, 2.Pet.3: 7-10. As man is the architect of his own destiny, he is responsible for the death of this planet; don’t blame God for the devastation of the earth.

Biblical proof

There are traces of proofs in all the prophecies that foretell that the carnal passions of man that rape earth violently is the root cause for the bleeding and slow death of Mother Nature. The carnality that is an outcome of the desecration of the first commandment of the everlasting covenant of worshipping and participating with Jesus’ body propel for the molestation of ecology. “The earth lies polluted under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statues, broken the everlasting covenant”, Is.24: 5. Receiving the body of Jesus is the everlasting covenant that is trampled over by different Christian denominations and cults by willful desecration. This chapter is one of the key evidences to prove that our craving passion of dominating and preying upon our own brethren for self- gain is the sole reason for the detrimental climate change which makes it impossible for us to continue our life here. Everything that is relative in this solar system that makes chain reactions for our own doom, if we violently interfere with. “ For the windows of heaven are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble. The earth is utterly broken, the earth is rent asunder, the earth is violently shaken. The earth staggers like a drunken man, it sways like a hut; its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it falls, and it will not rise again…”. This delineation is the geriatric stage of the earth that comes only at a later stage after passing through the beginning tremor of our times. Climate change is only the embryonic stage that leads to the devastating cataclysmic havoc, the conjunction of the entire social, religious and prophetic upheavals for the doomsday end.

In my many previous messages I have unfolded the 7 days of human history into 3 volumes: BC of 4000 years, AD of 2,000 years and the last millennium as the rest day for the God’s elects in Paradise, Hos. 6: 1-2; 2.King.19: 29; Is.37: 30. Apparently, we are sitting at the edge of the second epoch that starts and continues the gloom in tune with the apocalyptic proportions of Revelations and perpetuates towards to the last page of history for the prophetic consummation.

“The great day of the Lord is near, near and hastening fast; the sound of the day is bitter…A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and anguish, a day of ruin and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of trumpet blast and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the lofty battlements…In the fire of his jealous wrath, all the earth shall be consumed; for a full, yea, sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth, Zep.1: 14-18; Joel.3: 15; Amos.5: 16-27. The cynical people try to jeer at this idea of the present battles because, in their opinions, the life in Aden ensued with wars after the great fall. “On that day there shall be neither cold nor frost. And there shall be continuous day, not day and night, for at evening time there shall be light…their flesh shall rot while they are still on their feet, their eyes shall in their sockets, and their tongues shall rot in their mouths….”, Zec.14: 6-15.

This scene sounds like the spectacle of chemical wars. Neville Chute’s ‘On the Beach’s description of climate change has been compared with nuclear war. Global warming is, in some ways, like nuclear war’s aftermath. Sir John Houghton, former head of the British meteorological Bureau, once commented on the relative lack of attention to global warming compared with the war on terror. “We have found the WMDs, it is climate change”. “Excess atmospheric greenhouse gases linger, global temperatures continue to increase, the oceans expand and rise, and ecosystems alter and species decline, for decades, even centuries. We are experiencing the cumulative effects of more than a century’s use of oil and coal, land clearing and forest burning. Scientists believe a total increase of 2 degrees poses a significant risk of abrupt and uncontrolled climate change. We are already seeing alarming signs at both poles”, Peter Christoff writes. John Osborne laughed. “It is not the end of the world at all; it is only the end of us. The world will go on just the same, only we shall not be in it”. He is only partly correct because a remnant in the third epoch, according to the biblical prophecies, is likely to remain here to suffer the aftermath tragedies of nuclear wars. “…and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls”, Joel.2: 32; Obad.17; Mt.24. “And the surviving remnants of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward; for out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of Zion a band of survivors”, 2.King.19: 30.

Social Impacts of Climate Change

How can we compare the scientists’ exasperation with that of the churches’ complacency that is involved in political spirituality, the games of power and earthly prosperity? The churches divides like amoeba, thinking that all is right in the land of Pharisees’ and Sadducees’ fermentation. It is a pity that the church instead of warning about the impending dangers that hang on the humanity like Damocles’ sword that signal the coming of the Lord, is trying to overlook the muddied waters and to fish in troubled times. The dearth of drinking water and pure air is a great concern for some people in the political echelon, but generally not in the pontifical realm, the custodian of salvation to mankind. One who doesn’t try to serve the drinking water to the outcasts, how can one guarantee the water of Life in another planet?

God has been providing such basic necessities, together with the abundances of luxuries and His own Body and Blood from the beginning of the world, but man shifted sides with the Devil who lives inside the earth, supplying profusely his body and blood, the dark coal and petrol that consumes God’s planets and species. There are many theologians who don’t believe that hell is inside the earth. The scarcity of essential goods and the unaffordability of housing that doesn’t coincide with a decent living pave the way for human animals to interact and predate upon his own species. Together with goes the carnation of establishing authority, especially in the political levels, that leads to wars and uprooting people from their paternal property holds. It is a tragic spectacle that exhibits the hunchbacks, the crippled ones, the sick, young and old alike, traverse the adverse landscapes without food and water. No mercy and love has become the norms of a modern life that is transitory. “Fear is the root cause of all human evils”. Slavery, hatred and a cynical attitude that force the vulnerable to curse God and humanity is the net result of carbon dioxide, which is a product of industrialization and depravity. Human life has no value and the close association of man with his pet animals lately brings to light that the animality of man is at the pinnacle of its glory. Experts are writing hundreds and thousands of pages on this current heated topic, hence my desperation has no significance here.

Adulteration, chemical pollutions that pumps out poisons of different potencies enhances the woes and vexations of humanity in an unprecedented degree. There are two kinds of pollutions, firstly the external pollutions that are of our body and the environments and ecosystem, secondly the mental pollution that is accrued by forsaking God and cultivating a bohemian lifestyle. This is how man pollutes the earth by developing a Pharaoh’s hard-heartedness. His evil deeds brought God’s punishments of bringing locusts and poisoned streams and even killing the firstborns of Egypt. Chronic diseases are the products of mental and environmental pollutions. Man is the reason for his own downfall that finds its appearance in many forms of our social interactions and social intercourse. Climate change is a naked reality of the doomsday man, and cannot be ameliorated at any means. Nature is not the problem, it is the wicked man who defies God and rape Nature and molests his own brother for multiplying his carnal instincts that is a gift of God’s enemy is a curse on man. The virginity of man only can maintain the virginity of earth, a part of his own body that he annihilates for the fulfillment of his voluptuous passions. “The earth lie polluted under its inhabitants….the earth is utterly broken, the earth is rent asunder, the earth is violently shaken. The earth staggers like a drunken man…Is.24. The climate change that is the taproot of our destruction is a creation of man who is the creation of a Supreme power. Climate change that is the outward appearance of earth’s slow inward decay that forces the Lord to replant the human species in a distant galaxy which is beyond our imagination and out of reach has blossomed as a transparent truth. There is still consolation, “In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? Jn.14: 2.

Climate change has been a naked science –proven reality for the elites of the scientific community and a multitude of few political chauvinists; the shrewd vote-catching politicians ignored the wild cry of the majority fair-thinking citizens about the impending dangers of the Nature- bashing economy. Giving a high-flying life and a pleasure- thrill economy that instills confidence and consumerism has been the language of the ruling class for all these years of industrialization. A don’t care attitude that looks after one’s own conceited interest is the lingua franca of human animals. Knowing that we are only the stewards of the earthly house of the Lord, not owners of this ephemeral life is the best knowledge that one can cultivate during this horrid life of uncertainties. The tenants have no right to reshape the house and the topography of the vicinity. Our main aim in this life is to worship that is by serving the creatures of the Creator, not for exploiting his own brother by destroying the ecosystem for enhancing our fat. The latest invention of eco theology seemingly is a product and a part of liberation theology that offers false hope of earthly salvation.

Climate change, a very hot and current topic that even ferment and change the roadmap of nations and politics of our times. To restore the virginity of mother earth is a high and noble ambition; it is like transforming the geriatric ward as a section of pediatric cenre. As man is an essence of cosmic and terrestrial elements, it is inextricably impossible to separate the vital unit while he is moving around this planet. While the outer frame of man is an integral part of this earth, the primary aim of our body is to move in unison with the rhythm of the terrestrial universe that controls climate: weather, winds, temperature and consequently the habitats of the different zones of the earth, just as the first apparent role of our urinary/genital organs is for the urinary function, while the inevitable and vital role is the genital imperatives that dictate the propagation of the race through sexual union. Similar is the inextricable union of body and soul that intermingle together for the harmonious function of our earthly existence. Climate though apparently has no direct influence on the soul; the indirect magnetism from the body is an important factor for the metamorphosis of the inner being. The position of the sun and earth’s gravitational forces that play a crucial role reveal that if we overheat the environment that fiddle with the positions and the rotation of the planets in their axes, the dangerous aftermath is our own annihilation. Climate and weather, the destiny of man on earth should not be altered by the idiosyncratic moods or the selfishness of man.

Man, however, is destined to die, so also is the planet earth from which man is formed; the Creator has set a definite mandate for the slow disappearance of this earth. While there is clear-cut evidence that this earth is destined to be burnt up, why should we make pretence of ignoring and scoffing of this knowledge of wisdom passed on to us by the great seers? “ But by the same word heavens and earth that now exist have been stored up for fire,…The Lord is not slow about his promise of some count slowness, but is forbearing towards you,…But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up”, 2.Pet.3: 7-10. As man is the architect of his own destiny, he is responsible for the death of this planet; don’t blame God for the devastation of the earth.

Biblical proof

There are traces of proofs in all the prophecies that foretell that the carnal passions of man that rape earth violently is the root cause for the bleeding and slow death of Mother Nature. The carnality that is an outcome of the desecration of the first commandment of the everlasting covenant of worshipping and participating with Jesus’ body propel for the molestation of ecology. “The earth lies polluted under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statues, broken the everlasting covenant”, Is.24: 5. Receiving the body of Jesus is the everlasting covenant that is trampled over by different Christian denominations and cults by willful desecration. This chapter is one of the key evidences to prove that our craving passion of dominating and preying upon our own brethren for self- gain is the sole reason for the detrimental climate change which makes it impossible for us to continue our life here. Everything that is relative in this solar system that makes chain reactions for our own doom, if we violently interfere with. “ For the windows of heaven are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble. The earth is utterly broken, the earth is rent asunder, the earth is violently shaken. The earth staggers like a drunken man, it sways like a hut; its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it falls, and it will not rise again…”. This delineation is the geriatric stage of the earth that comes only at a later stage after passing through the beginning tremor of our times. Climate change is only the embryonic stage that leads to the devastating cataclysmic havoc, the conjunction of the entire social, religious and prophetic upheavals for the doomsday end.

In my many previous messages I have unfolded the 7 days of human history into 3 volumes: BC of 4000 years, AD of 2,000 years and the last millennium as the rest day for the God’s elects in Paradise, Hos. 6: 1-2; 2.King.19: 29; Is.37: 30. Apparently, we are sitting at the edge of the second epoch that starts and continues the gloom in tune with the apocalyptic proportions of Revelations and perpetuates towards to the last page of history for the prophetic consummation.

“The great day of the Lord is near, near and hastening fast; the sound of the day is bitter…A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and anguish, a day of ruin and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of trumpet blast and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the lofty battlements…In the fire of his jealous wrath, all the earth shall be consumed; for a full, yea, sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth, Zep.1: 14-18; Joel.3: 15; Amos.5: 16-27. The cynical people try to jeer at this idea of the present battles because, in their opinions, the life in Aden ensued with wars after the great fall. “On that day there shall be neither cold nor frost. And there shall be continuous day, not day and night, for at evening time there shall be light…their flesh shall rot while they are still on their feet, their eyes shall in their sockets, and their tongues shall rot in their mouths….”, Zec.14: 6-15.

This scene sounds like the spectacle of chemical wars. Neville Chute’s ‘On the Beach’s description of climate change has been compared with nuclear war. Global warming is, in some ways, like nuclear war’s aftermath. Sir John Houghton, former head of the British meteorological Bureau, once commented on the relative lack of attention to global warming compared with the war on terror. “We have found the WMDs, it is climate change”. “Excess atmospheric greenhouse gases linger, global temperatures continue to increase, the oceans expand and rise, and ecosystems alter and species decline, for decades, even centuries. We are experiencing the cumulative effects of more than a century’s use of oil and coal, land clearing and forest burning. Scientists believe a total increase of 2 degrees poses a significant risk of abrupt and uncontrolled climate change. We are already seeing alarming signs at both poles”, Peter Christoff writes. John Osborne laughed. “It is not the end of the world at all; it is only the end of us. The world will go on just the same, only we shall not be in it”. He is only partly correct because a remnant in the third epoch, according to the biblical prophecies, is likely to remain here to suffer the aftermath tragedies of nuclear wars. “…and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls”, Joel.2: 32; Obad.17; Mt.24. “And the surviving remnants of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward; for out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of Zion a band of survivors”, 2.King.19: 30.

Social Impacts of Climate Change

How can we compare the scientists’ exasperation with that of the churches’ complacency that is involved in political spirituality, the games of power and earthly prosperity? The churches divides like amoeba, thinking that all is right in the land of Pharisees’ and Sadducees’ fermentation. It is a pity that the church instead of warning about the impending dangers that hang on the humanity like Damocles’ sword that signal the coming of the Lord, is trying to overlook the muddied waters and to fish in troubled times. The dearth of drinking water and pure air is a great concern for some people in the political echelon, but generally not in the pontifical realm, the custodian of salvation to mankind. One who doesn’t try to serve the drinking water to the outcasts, how can one guarantee the water of Life in another planet?

God has been providing such basic necessities, together with the abundances of luxuries and His own Body and Blood from the beginning of the world, but man shifted sides with the Devil who lives inside the earth, supplying profusely his body and blood, the dark coal and petrol that consumes God’s planets and species. There are many theologians who don’t believe that hell is inside the earth. The scarcity of essential goods and the unaffordability of housing that doesn’t coincide with a decent living pave the way for human animals to interact and predate upon his own species. Together with goes the carnation of establishing authority, especially in the political levels, that leads to wars and uprooting people from their paternal property holds. It is a tragic spectacle that exhibits the hunchbacks, the crippled ones, the sick, young and old alike, traverse the adverse landscapes without food and water. No mercy and love has become the norms of a modern life that is transitory. “Fear is the root cause of all human evils”. Slavery, hatred and a cynical attitude that force the vulnerable to curse God and humanity is the net result of carbon dioxide, which is a product of industrialization and depravity. Human life has no value and the close association of man with his pet animals lately brings to light that the animality of man is at the pinnacle of its glory. Experts are writing hundreds and thousands of pages on this current heated topic, hence my desperation has no significance here.

Adulteration, chemical pollutions that pumps out poisons of different potencies enhances the woes and vexations of humanity in an unprecedented degree. There are two kinds of pollutions, firstly the external pollutions that are of our body and the environments and ecosystem, secondly the mental pollution that is accrued by forsaking God and cultivating a bohemian lifestyle. This is how man pollutes the earth by developing a Pharaoh’s hard-heartedness. His evil deeds brought God’s punishments of bringing locusts and poisoned streams and even killing the firstborns of Egypt. Chronic diseases are the products of mental and environmental pollutions. Man is the reason for his own downfall that finds its appearance in many forms of our social interactions and social intercourse. Climate change is a naked reality of the doomsday man, and cannot be ameliorated at any means. Nature is not the problem, it is the wicked man who defies God and rape Nature and molests his own brother for multiplying his carnal instincts that is a gift of God’s enemy is a curse on man. The virginity of man only can maintain the virginity of earth, a part of his own body that he annihilates for the fulfillment of his voluptuous passions. “The earth lie polluted under its inhabitants….the earth is utterly broken, the earth is rent asunder, the earth is violently shaken. The earth staggers like a drunken man…Is.24. The climate change that is the taproot of our destruction is a creation of man who is the creation of a Supreme power. Climate change that is the outward appearance of earth’s slow inward decay that forces the Lord to replant the human species in a distant galaxy which is beyond our imagination and out of reach has blossomed as a transparent truth. There is still consolation, “In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? (Jn.14: 2.).

Prof. E.S.John Australia (Contributing Editor)

Climate change has been a naked science –proven reality for the elites of the scientific community and a multitude of few political chauvinists; the shrewd vote-catching politicians ignored the wild cry of the majority fair-thinking citizens about the impending dangers of the Nature- bashing economy. Giving a high-flying life and a pleasure- thrill economy that instills confidence and consumerism has been the language of the ruling class for all these years of industrialization. A don’t care attitude that looks after one’s own conceited interest is the lingua franca of human animals. Knowing that we are only the stewards of the earthly house of the Lord, not owners of this ephemeral life is the best knowledge that one can cultivate during this horrid life of uncertainties. The tenants have no right to reshape the house and the topography of the vicinity. Our main aim in this life is to worship that is by serving the creatures of the Creator, not for exploiting his own brother by destroying the ecosystem for enhancing our fat. The latest invention of eco theology seemingly is a product and a part of liberation theology that offers false hope of earthly salvation.

Climate change, a very hot and current topic that even ferment and change the roadmap of nations and politics of our times. To restore the virginity of mother earth is a high and noble ambition; it is like transforming the geriatric ward as a section of pediatric cenre. As man is an essence of cosmic and terrestrial elements, it is inextricably impossible to separate the vital unit while he is moving around this planet. While the outer frame of man is an integral part of this earth, the primary aim of our body is to move in unison with the rhythm of the terrestrial universe that controls climate: weather, winds, temperature and consequently the habitats of the different zones of the earth, just as the first apparent role of our urinary/genital organs is for the urinary function, while the inevitable and vital role is the genital imperatives that dictate the propagation of the race through sexual union. Similar is the inextricable union of body and soul that intermingle together for the harmonious function of our earthly existence. Climate though apparently has no direct influence on the soul; the indirect magnetism from the body is an important factor for the metamorphosis of the inner being. The position of the sun and earth’s gravitational forces that play a crucial role reveal that if we overheat the environment that fiddle with the positions and the rotation of the planets in their axes, the dangerous aftermath is our own annihilation. Climate and weather, the destiny of man on earth should not be altered by the idiosyncratic moods or the selfishness of man.

Man, however, is destined to die, so also is the planet earth from which man is formed; the Creator has set a definite mandate for the slow disappearance of this earth. While there is clear-cut evidence that this earth is destined to be burnt up, why should we make pretence of ignoring and scoffing of this knowledge of wisdom passed on to us by the great seers? “ But by the same word heavens and earth that now exist have been stored up for fire,…The Lord is not slow about his promise of some count slowness, but is forbearing towards you,…But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up”, 2.Pet.3: 7-10. As man is the architect of his own destiny, he is responsible for the death of this planet; don’t blame God for the devastation of the earth.

Biblical proof

There are traces of proofs in all the prophecies that foretell that the carnal passions of man that rape earth violently is the root cause for the bleeding and slow death of Mother Nature. The carnality that is an outcome of the desecration of the first commandment of the everlasting covenant of worshipping and participating with Jesus’ body propel for the molestation of ecology. “The earth lies polluted under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statues, broken the everlasting covenant”, Is.24: 5. Receiving the body of Jesus is the everlasting covenant that is trampled over by different Christian denominations and cults by willful desecration. This chapter is one of the key evidences to prove that our craving passion of dominating and preying upon our own brethren for self- gain is the sole reason for the detrimental climate change which makes it impossible for us to continue our life here. Everything that is relative in this solar system that makes chain reactions for our own doom, if we violently interfere with. “ For the windows of heaven are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble. The earth is utterly broken, the earth is rent asunder, the earth is violently shaken. The earth staggers like a drunken man, it sways like a hut; its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it falls, and it will not rise again…”. This delineation is the geriatric stage of the earth that comes only at a later stage after passing through the beginning tremor of our times. Climate change is only the embryonic stage that leads to the devastating cataclysmic havoc, the conjunction of the entire social, religious and prophetic upheavals for the doomsday end.

In my many previous messages I have unfolded the 7 days of human history into 3 volumes: BC of 4000 years, AD of 2,000 years and the last millennium as the rest day for the God’s elects in Paradise, Hos. 6: 1-2; 2.King.19: 29; Is.37: 30. Apparently, we are sitting at the edge of the second epoch that starts and continues the gloom in tune with the apocalyptic proportions of Revelations and perpetuates towards to the last page of history for the prophetic consummation.

“The great day of the Lord is near, near and hastening fast; the sound of the day is bitter…A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and anguish, a day of ruin and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of trumpet blast and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the lofty battlements…In the fire of his jealous wrath, all the earth shall be consumed; for a full, yea, sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth, Zep.1: 14-18; Joel.3: 15; Amos.5: 16-27. The cynical people try to jeer at this idea of the present battles because, in their opinions, the life in Aden ensued with wars after the great fall. “On that day there shall be neither cold nor frost. And there shall be continuous day, not day and night, for at evening time there shall be light…their flesh shall rot while they are still on their feet, their eyes shall in their sockets, and their tongues shall rot in their mouths….”, Zec.14: 6-15.

This scene sounds like the spectacle of chemical wars. Neville Chute’s ‘On the Beach’s description of climate change has been compared with nuclear war. Global warming is, in some ways, like nuclear war’s aftermath. Sir John Houghton, former head of the British meteorological Bureau, once commented on the relative lack of attention to global warming compared with the war on terror. “We have found the WMDs, it is climate change”. “Excess atmospheric greenhouse gases linger, global temperatures continue to increase, the oceans expand and rise, and ecosystems alter and species decline, for decades, even centuries. We are experiencing the cumulative effects of more than a century’s use of oil and coal, land clearing and forest burning. Scientists believe a total increase of 2 degrees poses a significant risk of abrupt and uncontrolled climate change. We are already seeing alarming signs at both poles”, Peter Christoff writes. John Osborne laughed. “It is not the end of the world at all; it is only the end of us. The world will go on just the same, only we shall not be in it”. He is only partly correct because a remnant in the third epoch, according to the biblical prophecies, is likely to remain here to suffer the aftermath tragedies of nuclear wars. “…and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls”, Joel.2: 32; Obad.17; Mt.24. “And the surviving remnants of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward; for out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of Zion a band of survivors”, 2.King.19: 30.

Social Impacts of Climate Change

How can we compare the scientists’ exasperation with that of the churches’ complacency that is involved in political spirituality, the games of power and earthly prosperity? The churches divides like amoeba, thinking that all is right in the land of Pharisees’ and Sadducees’ fermentation. It is a pity that the church instead of warning about the impending dangers that hang on the humanity like Damocles’ sword that signal the coming of the Lord, is trying to overlook the muddied waters and to fish in troubled times. The dearth of drinking water and pure air is a great concern for some people in the political echelon, but generally not in the pontifical realm, the custodian of salvation to mankind. One who doesn’t try to serve the drinking water to the outcasts, how can one guarantee the water of Life in another planet?

God has been providing such basic necessities, together with the abundances of luxuries and His own Body and Blood from the beginning of the world, but man shifted sides with the Devil who lives inside the earth, supplying profusely his body and blood, the dark coal and petrol that consumes God’s planets and species. There are many theologians who don’t believe that hell is inside the earth. The scarcity of essential goods and the unaffordability of housing that doesn’t coincide with a decent living pave the way for human animals to interact and predate upon his own species. Together with goes the carnation of establishing authority, especially in the political levels, that leads to wars and uprooting people from their paternal property holds. It is a tragic spectacle that exhibits the hunchbacks, the crippled ones, the sick, young and old alike, traverse the adverse landscapes without food and water. No mercy and love has become the norms of a modern life that is transitory. “Fear is the root cause of all human evils”. Slavery, hatred and a cynical attitude that force the vulnerable to curse God and humanity is the net result of carbon dioxide, which is a product of industrialization and depravity. Human life has no value and the close association of man with his pet animals lately brings to light that the animality of man is at the pinnacle of its glory. Experts are writing hundreds and thousands of pages on this current heated topic, hence my desperation has no significance here.

Adulteration, chemical pollutions that pumps out poisons of different potencies enhances the woes and vexations of humanity in an unprecedented degree. There are two kinds of pollutions, firstly the external pollutions that are of our body and the environments and ecosystem, secondly the mental pollution that is accrued by forsaking God and cultivating a bohemian lifestyle. This is how man pollutes the earth by developing a Pharaoh’s hard-heartedness. His evil deeds brought God’s punishments of bringing locusts and poisoned streams and even killing the firstborns of Egypt. Chronic diseases are the products of mental and environmental pollutions. Man is the reason for his own downfall that finds its appearance in many forms of our social interactions and social intercourse. Climate change is a naked reality of the doomsday man, and cannot be ameliorated at any means. Nature is not the problem, it is the wicked man who defies God and rape Nature and molests his own brother for multiplying his carnal instincts that is a gift of God’s enemy is a curse on man. The virginity of man only can maintain the virginity of earth, a part of his own body that he annihilates for the fulfillment of his voluptuous passions. “The earth lie polluted under its inhabitants….the earth is utterly broken, the earth is rent asunder, the earth is violently shaken. The earth staggers like a drunken man…Is.24. The climate change that is the taproot of our destruction is a creation of man who is the creation of a Supreme power. Climate change that is the outward appearance of earth’s slow inward decay that forces the Lord to replant the human species in a distant galaxy which is beyond our imagination and out of reach has blossomed as a transparent truth. There is still consolation, “In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? (Jn.14: 2.).

Prof. E.S.John Australia (Contributing Editor)