Now Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let's go out to the field." And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him. Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?"  "I don't know," he replied. "Am I my brother's keeper?" The LORD said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground.(Genesis 4: 8-10, King James Version)

If you take that Scripture seriously, much more innocent blood is crying from the ground. Since the Supreme Court's Roe v Wade decision legalizing abortion in 1972, over 48 million babies have been scraped, sucked and ripped from wombs. The overwhelming majority of those killings has been for the convenience of parents. If you believe in an eternal, never-changing, all-powerful God, He does hear, and He does act. He acts with mercy and forgiveness until such time as a people refuse to repent, and then the nation comes under His judgement.

That's why I'm not so concerned about tomorrow's rush of gays to altars and registry offices in California. In March four justices of the state Supreme Court overturned an eight-year-old referendum passed by 61% of the electorate that banned gay marriage. The recent ruling also overturned more than a century of state law that defined marriage as a between a man and a woman, not to mention shrugging off millennia of global tradition.

In a country under judgement, you won't see democracy at work. There will be no recognition of authority except that of force and fear, so as conditions worsen, every man will become a law unto himself. Everyone will rationalize whatever he does to meet his comforts and desires. We already see this in an increase in crime and a decrease in civility. Divorce will become rampant; the abandonment of children, commonplace. Sexual activity will start at lower and lower ages.

That's only the beginning. It gets really bad after that--natural disasters, wars, plagues, famine. Although people will be shocked by these things, they will be so used to either denying God or mocking Him, the only godly solution left to them is to blame Him for the troubles. Then it gets worse.

What tomorrow does bring is another indication that we have lost our way. As we sense sea changes all about us, as we fret about things we can't yet see, we cling ever more tightly to the false hope of values that are founded on nothing more than fad and fancy. We want to believe, if we just tolerate everything and everyone, there will be no reason for anything to ever come after us.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;  Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 3And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;  Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. (Romans 1: 18 -32, KJV)

The bodies floated.

They were part of the aftermath of last month's Cyclone Nargis that cut across the Irrawdy Delta of Myanmar. The sawing vortex of wind and rain, and the storm surge that followed killed 23,000 people and left a million homeless. Nature's worst is child's play compared to the atrocities committed by the government.

Myanmar used to be called Burma when it was a British colony. Independence came in 1947. A leftist military coup in 1962 instigated "The Burmese Way of Socialism," kicking off more than 40 years of steady economic decline and periodic outbursts of ethnic cleansing. In 1989 the ruling generals changed the name of their killing fields to Myanmar. The current strong man is General Than Shwe.

After refusing foreign aid to victims of Cyclone Nargis, Shwe's State Peace and Development Council allowed show displays of humanitarianism. Among them was a tent city put up and supplied by the United Nations. When the reporters left with their sound bites and footage, the refuges were sent packing and the food distributed to Shwe's soldiers.

I know two people whose names I can't mention because they are returning to Myammar to continue whatever they can do. In the past they set up home churches and brought money to buy food and medical supplies from the regional thugs. Bringing material directly into the country is vorboten because there is less chance for profiteering.

The churches they help shepherd no longer exist. The people fled to a town above water. There the military conscripted males over the age 12, and put the elderly, women and children into boats. They boats, they were told, would take them to a refugee center.

None arrived.

A medical missionary has video of the bodies that floated. They were bloated and pierced by bullets.

I'm a Christian fundamentalist sadly aware the label makes many people think I'm anti-science, condemn them to Hell, want to police what goes on their bedrooms, and am filled with prejudicial hatred that come out in jokes like: You know why Osama bin Laden and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad don't eat with their left hands? Because they're afraid of licking off their brains.

The list of negatives goes on and on. In the interest of understanding and brotherhood, I would like to clear up the grosser of these misunderstandings and so offer this irregular series to give Bible-based, Spirit-filled insights of what it means to have God smile on me and not you.

Let's examine the most important issue. I do not want to be in your bedroom. Honest to God, unless you lead with a 36 double D rack, own a chain of liquor stores, can yodel and have invited me with a fetching jingle of your handcuffs, I don't even want to be in your house.

I'm not asking what you do in your bedroom, so please don't tell me. Don't tell my children. Don't bring a cucumber to elementary school as part of the syllabus for an anti-pregnancy prevention program. In case you haven't notice, in spite of increasingly detailed sex education, illegitimate babies are on the rise while the age of unwed mothers is spiraling downward.

I'm sorry. I take that back. There are no illegitimate children in God's eyes. But I think that fathers who abandon their children and girls who keep having babies to get more welfare are on the road to Hell.

In fact, I think most people I know are on a superhighway to Hell. H-80 I call it, and good riddance I say. If you had my neighbors, friends and family members, the point would not have to be discussed. As it is...and here's the rub...if I get the chance, I'm supposed to talk them out of it. I'm not supposed to nudge them there in any way.

For some people there is confusion on this point. Christian fundamentalists are lumped in with Islamic fundamentalists. Islamists think most people are going to Hell too, and if you lived in their countries, you could understand it. But the worst you'll get from a Christian is some foamer on a street corner giving you a little comic book. For the Moslem, it's strap explosives to a kid and send him into the local pizza parlor.

For you seekers after Truth, look here again for when I give more apologies. My wife says that should be apologetics, but what does she know? She's Catholic.

Confession: I have not seen Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth. People say I shouldn't have an opinion about the environmental issues raised until I have. Their logic suggests I cannot have knowledge of syphilis until I catch it in a Mexican whorehouse. In both cases, I would rather avoid the spirochetes.

Contention: There are people who want you to be afraid. They will hold a gun or some such to your head. In your fear, you are apt to believe you will survive only because of their good pleasure. That's the power they want over you.

We call them extortionists, kidnappers, armed robbers, rapists. They are schoolyard bullies. They are certain politicians.

Never for a moment think they are aware of being wicked or bad. To their minds their good is everyone's good. Your undoing is hardly the issue.

For example, yesterday Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) kicked off a Senate debate on global warming. He believes greenhouse gasses will fry us all. Mr. Reid says Science backs him up. So do famous actors. A former Vice President says we're goners too.

So, we the people need to be punitively taxed on energy use, and in some instances prosecuted and jailed.

This will boost the cost of everything, will kill a lot of jobs and force you, if you haven't already, to use mass transit. Then there will be pressure on government to fix food prices, extend jobless benefits, and expand public transportation and continue to subsidize traveling graffiti shows. That's the short list. All of these cost money, and will require increasing taxation and very tight bureaucratic controls to bring about.

The restrictions, however, will be for our own good. We won't survive without them.

But suppose we can't do anything about the gun at our heads. Two weeks ago I saw an astronomer with a telescope and heard him tiredly explain to concerned civilian who was passing by: "Yes. Climate change. Cause by Sun. Comes in cycles."

Or suppose the gun isn't loaded. Or what if there isn't a gun at all?

A large body of expertise on global warming is contrary to the consensus Mr. Reid so comfortably assumes. In a May 19th WoldNetDaily story, reporter Bob Unruh takes on one the more famous Greenies for being full of the ol' Shinola. I have excerpted the article below, but it deserves a full read.

More than 31,000 scientists across the United States, including more than 9,000 Ph.D.s in fields including atmospheric science, climatology, Earth science, environment and dozens of other specialties, have signed a petition rejecting the assumption that the human production of greenhouse gases is damaging Earth's climate.

"There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate," the petition states. "Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth."

The Petition Project actually was launched nearly 10 years ago, when the first few thousand signatures were assembled. Then between 1999 and 2007, the list of signatures grew gradually without any special effort or campaign. Now a new effort has been conducted because of an "escalation of the claims of consensus."

Project spokesman and founder Art Robinson Petition explained, "Mr. Gore's movie asserting 'settled science' conveyed the claims about human-caused global warming to ordinary movie goers and to public school children, to whom the film was widely distributed. Unfortunately, Mr. Gore's movie contains many very serious incorrect claims which no informed, honest scientist could endorse."

WND submitted a request to Al Gore's office for comment, but did not get a response.

Robinson said the dire warnings about "global warming" have gone far beyond semantics or scientific discussion to the point they are actually endangering people.

"The campaign to severely ration hydrocarbon energy technology has now been markedly expanded," he said. "In the course of this campaign, many scientifically invalid claims about impending climate emergencies are being made. Simultaneously, proposed political actions to severely reduce hydrocarbon use now threaten the prosperity of Americans and the very existence of hundreds of millions of people in poorer countries," said Robinson.

The late Professor Frederick Seitz, the past president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and winner of the National Medal of Science, wrote in a letter promoting the petition, "The United States is very close to adopting an international agreement that would ration the use of energy and of technologies that depend upon coal, oil, and natural gas and some other organic compounds."

"This treaty is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful," he wrote.

Accompanying the letter sent to scientists was a 12-page summary and review of research on "global warming."

Steitz wrote, "The proposed agreement would have very negative effects upon the technology of nations throughout the world, especially those that are currently attempting to lift from poverty and provide opportunities to the over 4 billion people in technologically underdeveloped countries."

Robinson said the project targets scientists because, "It is especially important for America to hear from its citizens who have the training necessary to evaluate the relevant data and offer sound advice."

But you can bet not one of them will be invited by Senator Reid to testify before his Congressional cronies.