Some Questions...
- When did the support of looted documents become Geography?
- When did support of nominal enviro-terrorists become Geography?
- When did the attempted distruction of Christianity [and maybe Judeo-Christian thought] become Geography?
Answer:
When the National Geographic Society forgot that Geography is the study of the land and terrain.
I started to get upset with the "Geographic" when they suddenly decided that Global Warming was a given, and that we in America had caused it.
Along with several other pundits, I don't think man can cause or stop any global climate change, all you have to do is sit in a little league press box when a storm blows in and see just how helpless we are against the natural forces of weather.
Besides, we're just now getting the computer systems perful enough to let us predict the weather within a 18-12 hour window.
Forecasts where I live tend to call for storm events about 3 hours before they actually happen.
As a result, if they call for rain in the morning, about 90% of the time it will rain right about the time of the first pitch, but I digress.
The Gospel of Judas was one of many documents produced in early Christianity that followed the Gnostic path. Gnosticism tried to suggest that there was a hidden knowledge behind what God was doing, and used Christianity to try to further their beliefs. There are several other "christian gospels" that purport to further explain what Christ was about, etc.
The problem then and now is that Christianity, and the salvation that comes from belief in Christ as God's Son and Savior, is just too simple. I know we all snicker at the guy in the ball park with "John 3:16" on his sign, but folks , that's about all you need to know to become a saved and forgiven Christian.
One of the problems with almost all religions, including many who profess Christianity, is that you always seem to have to earn your salvation. In Christianity, that's called works, something that reflects your belief, but something that is not required.
The Geographic appears to be taken up with the "Earth Mother' movement and is trying to create another religion where God is the Earth, and we all deserve to be destroyed because we are destroying god. They dig up a long rejected gnostic "gospel" in the hopes that it will shake the faith of believers who just aren't concerned enough about how bad things are in the world.
Deep down inside, they want to replace all of the world's religions with environmentalism.
Which sounds like another works based religion to me.
