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NFL Season Canceled [1]
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Date: 2023-08-09
OK, now that I have your attention….let’s imagine what a conversation in the future might look like as we approach the dawning of our “New Reality” in the mounting crisis that we call “climate change”:
July 7, 2045: Reporter: Sen. Gladly (Rep. Kansas) ...Tom User of Green News Daily. Could you spare a few minutes to answer some of our questions?
Sen. Gladly: Of course, son, even stupid gets its day in court.
Reporter: Uh….yeah...right. I appreciate that. So, lets step right into the courtroom. The news today about the NFL canceling its season due to the increasing temperatures in the county, do you have any comment?
Sen. Gladly: This is a travesty. We’ve given those folks billions of dollars in taxes and this is how they react. I can assure you that there will be an investigation.
Reporter: Yes, sir...I’m sure there will be, but in light of everything else going on in the country, isn’t the NFL canceling its season a long way down the list of priorities?
Sen. Gladly: Sports is what made this country what it is son. America is the greatest country in the world and we depend on our best people, our athletes, to set the right example. We owe it to our children to keep our traditions alive.
Reporter: Sir, with all due respect, last week Phoenix reported that over half its population has left the city due to lack of water. The average temperature there last week was around 135 degrees. It is almost impossible to live in that environment. Florida is starting to go under water. Your Agricultural Department is reporting that our food crops are failing on a pace we have never seen before. They estimate that we may see a 50% decline in food this year in this country alone. Overseas, its even worse. There are food riots in every country. Seems to me that football is really not all that important right now.
Sen. Gladly: Son, God has His plan. We are mere mortals and we cannot question His wisdom. Our Savior Jesus Christ will come to us soon and deliver the Kingdom of God upon us. Perhaps you just need to read the signs before you.
Reporter: So, you are saying that God’s plan includes the NFL playing football?
Sen. Gladly: You need to have faith and see His wisdom before you. He will come and save us because He loves us.
Reporter: Maybe He was already here, but we didn’t pay attention to Him. Maybe the signs were all around us trying to catch our attention, but we were too busy watching football.
Sen. Gladly: What are you saying, son?
Reporter: Well, if we are all God’s children and some of His children were trying to warn us about this approaching apocalypse but we wouldn’t listen, maybe we’ve missed the opportunity to act in His wisdom and now we have to learn a hard lesson. Maybe we’ve been listening to far too many “experts” and church sermons and not enough to His Creation. Maybe his word is all around us every day and every moment. We’ve just lost the ability to listen and realize. Maybe God’s voice is in every declining bee population, in the needless suffering of the animals, in the madness of the children who mimic our violence, in the failing food supply and in the disappearing waters.
Sen. Gladly: What church do you go to son?
Reporter: The Church of Mother Earth.
Sen. Gladly: Never heard of it.
Reporter: No kidding?
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