It’s barely post-Thanksgiving, the indigestion shows little signs of moderating and it’s not helping that I’m struggling with the tension raised concerning my (at least nominal) Christianity and the fact that we’re ruining the planet. The latter should be against everyone’s religion.
This could get ugly.
Because it pits these viewpoints:
I love Jesus and want to signify it to my friends vs. I love the planet as I think Jesus would and therefore I will fight to the death to protect it.
Actually, I wouldn’t fight to the death to protect Albert Haynesworth from incarceration.
However, Wonder Wife and I stand in disagreement over Christmas lighting. That’s the event when we deck the halls to prove that we’re:
1. For Christmas (as every damned American should be);
2. Against all -isms.
3. Heedless of buzzwords like “carbon footprint;” and
4. Ready to outspend and outshine our neighbor in advertising our devotion to the Lord.
As this is written, WW is out there stringing lights among the dogwoods. Thank heavens they’re LED. No one has any idea what that means, but the LED bulbs are tiny and they’re better. That’s all you need to know. They pollute less.
Nothing is going to be done to knock out the excesses of Christmas lighting. America boogies on. One house in Texas has a space ship that’s programmed to fly over their home and eject a Santa in a parachute
Although a once-popular Oklahoma Senator called global warming a “hoax,” it’s true that the polar ice cap is disappearing, as are thousands of glaciers over the globe. Seas are rising. Various wildlife is under attack and the actuality of environmental damage is even greater than previous estimates. This is bad . . . for your children and grandchildren, who’ll inherit the mess we’ve made of the 21st century, including the profligacy, governmental and private, that Americans will be paying on forever and ever, amen.
The Rush Web site offers this advice:
If you’ve got to light your place like the aurora borealis, then pay attention:
Turn them on two hours a night. The rest of us promise not to look the other 22 hours. Use the efficient LED lights. Finally, those electrical appliances – TV’s, coffee makers with clocks and on and on – have a standby power use. It helps to unplug ‘em.
Of course no one does.
If you light up for the holidays, you’re a better Christian than I. No surprise there.
I’ll make my case in the hereafter. I’ll sing a few bars from “This Is My Father’s World.”
Pray for me.
Global warming is such a pain in the, uh, neck.
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