God is Watching Us

Within the last two weeks, our world has seen the wrath of Nature and possibly God. In Burma, there was a Cyclone that already has killed 35,000 people and is on its way to killing an estimated 100,000. In China there was an Earth Quake that lasted for 3 minutes and was a record 7.8 on the Richter scale. This Quake has claimed 5,000 people and has trapped more the 3,000 students in around 900 school buildings that have collapsed. In Chile, a Volcano erupted killing thousands and here in our country Tornadoes and storms have ripped through the south, and mid-west, killing 50-100 people. Whether your are spiritual or not, you have to think to yourself that we are causing these catastrophes to occur because of our neglect for our environment and mother nature. There are people who believe the world will end in 2012, that God or whatever higher being you believe in will cast his spell on us and restart with a human race that cares about their world and that doesn't take advantage of what we were given. It goes back to the Adam and Eve story from the Christian religion. God gave Adam and Eve anything and everything that they wanted, the only thing he said was don't eat the apple from this particular tree. Of course, as all humans do, they didn't do what they were told, ignoring the advice and ate the apples and were punished dearly. Now I am not religious, although I do believe in God, I don't however believe in a church or the bible. The story of Adam and Eve has significance because it is an example of what is going on now, just on a much smaller scale. Humans have been given this amazing world, with vast amounts of resources and opportunities to live healthy, meaningful lives. Everyone has the capacity to save what is left of this planet and even help promote new growth for our future, it is only able to happen if you choose to do so. Most people choose not to, and continue to abuse our world and continue to think no matter what they do, the earth will keep on giving. Unfortunately that won't only affect those people, it will affect all of us. I hope that there are others out there that are seeing these global catastrophes occur and are thinking about what they can do to help. The problem, is that there are plenty of citizens out there that still believe Climate Change is a Liberal way of thinking. They also believe that God will save them as long as they went to church on Sunday. Thats fine, but when God strikes down upon us with furious anger and vengeance like he/she has started to with the natural disasters, going to church on Sundays will be a distant memory of wasted time. I am not saying that God is causing these natural disasters, I am not saying that he/she ISN'T. I am only saying that nature is acting in a way that makes it seem like it has had enough. It is the same concept of the bully/victim situation in High School. Eventually the victim can't take the abuse anymore, and repercussions follow. I wish our news sources (American Media Outlets) would make some sort of connection to these disasters and catastrophes happening around our globe. Because a lot of people in America, sadly, follow what is said on CNN and Fox News like a clock, instead of thinking for themselves. I say American news because BBC world and other International news channels offer more in depth investigations, leaving the ego-centric and ethno-centric reporting to us. That topic is a whole other blog post that I will get to soon enough, but for now, just watch Headline News and then watch BBC World News and you'll see what I mean.