To the editor:

After a conversation with my son about President Trump’s recently submitted budget proposal with its cutting of environmental subsidies, I did a little “global warming” research and found the following, which was submitted by the name “Tinareno.” Because it so accurately reflects my heart about this issue, I have asked the editor to print it just as I copied and pasted it. Even the prayer at the end belongs to whoever Tinareno is, but once again, it is my prayer as well.

“I am appalled at the lack of accountability that climate change ‘scientists’ give to their own standards. According to them, billions of years were involved in getting from nothing to the place we are and yet they freak-out at temperature fluctuations monitored for a mere century. HOW can they justify such a gelatinous position? I would be ashamed to lob that notion into the arena let alone pull the fire alarm over it. You would think that people who purport that such great lengths of time are valid and mandatory to explain all the intensely interconnected systems around us would see and admit that they can’t possibly have accumulated enough data in a century to predict what they are ‘predicting.’ It’s pride, gall, narcissism and agenda all rolled-up into one giant kernel of deception, and the sad thing is that the culture (especially in our schools) is grooming us to accept it. All of this is very likely a forerunner of the ‘great delusion’ described in The Revelation. And I could not put it better than the Apostle Paul when he wrote in the first chapter to the Romans, ‘Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools…’

“LORD help us to have Your wisdom, to see clearly through the deceptions of this culture by the power of Your Holy Spirit, and to have patience as we rightly divide Your Word in order to answer theirs. You love them enough that you died for them. Help us to love them first, even in our frustration at the deception they spread (for it engulfs them too). We ask this in JESUS’ name and for His sake. Amen.”

Germaine Rysdahl

New Ulm