The linked article goes through a long list of certain predictions that turned out to be wrong -- worth a scan for perspective.
My conversion to being a skeptic in pretty much everything began with the Carter "malaise" speech. It is worth going back and reading it -- who would have thought that the main problem was Carter and the Deep State? Reagan came as close to "proving" that was the case as it is possible to do by 1984.
"The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways.It's interesting to note that Carter, then a practicing Southern Baptist, came close, but only sideways mentioned the cause of the "loss of confidence".
It is a crisis of confidence.
It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.
The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America."
In closing, let me say this: I will do my best, but I will not do it alone. Let your voice be heard. Whenever you have a chance, say something good about our country. With God’s help and for the sake of our nation, it is time for us to join hands in America. Let us commit ourselves together to a rebirth of the American spirit. Working together with our common faith we cannot fail.Today, Carter has left the Biblical faith ... you know, the kind of faith that believes the Bible. Carter feels it needs to be "updated" ... and interestingly, since his famous speech, more and more people have left Christianity because it is not "accommodating" enough. In the words of Christ ...
John 14:6 Jesus said unto him, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me."Faith" means you need to BELIEVE in something that is transcendent (not scientifically "provable") The time tested and extremely successful up to the late 20th century belief was Christianity. America was founded on the totally unproven belief that there were unalienable rights given by a sovereign God -- and up until the mid 20th century, we were held together by that common belief.
Lose your faith in the transcendent, and you are just a meaningless cosmic accident -- and "malaise" is virtually guaranteed. Just look at the rising depression and suicide statistics in the unlikely case that you don't have personal experience with yourself or loved ones.
We are natural believers -- and we WILL believe in something. We have to fill that hole with SOMETHING, and today one of the attempts is "Climate Change" ... which, like all idolatry, is a complete failure. You can "believe" that "saving the planet" is your "mission", but of course it isn't "personal" in the least, and it doesn't "save" YOU at all!
Ironically, in order to accept the climate change faith, you have to give up reason -- just as you always have to do to some extent to accept any faith. Either we have been created by a loving God with a built in need to seek his divine solution to that existential need in the person of Jesus Christ, or, a random universe has randomly put this unquenchable lust for faith in our hearts by pure accident.
You have a choice! Oh, and if you refuse to believe that climate change is not "proven", consider this.
Outside of mathematics, certainty is metaphysical -- so the "experts" that are "certain" are very frequently wrong. -
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