Sunday, May 11, 2008

Nobody Digests Global Magazines


Nobody’s Opinion: I’m not really found of change. Nobody is. Give me something I can count on. I want my car to start, and I want the bacon to taste like bacon, not like a tire covered in grease and homogenized glue.

So when I opened my Readers’s Digest this month, I was relieved to find out that a new editor had taken over. Due to the high price of gas, one must cut corners somewhere, and it was nice to know that not renewing my subscription was going to be easy. All I needed to do was read, “we open a window on our increasingly connected world. (Here comes the globalist propaganda) And because we know you want to stay current without necessarily going back to college we’ve started a new feature called Quick Study, which gives you, well, “the Reader’s Digest version” of a news topic in four quick pages.”

Oh boy.

What---are they going to start teaching us the real math, history, and grammar that everyone was not taught in public school? Or will it be the new lessons of--- volunteer your time, you fat American, and while you’re at it, keep asking your doctors for all these wonderful pills we advertise, now being made in trustworthy China...

Okay, so it’s not exactly the National Review. Still, the Readers Digest had uplifting stories in it about ordinary people, doing the most heroic things…a nice change from the usual American citizen basing that we have been bombarded with. The Digest was almost the last place with good stories of true Americans, and their everyday bravery.

Sadly, I saw this same “change” come to another magazine around 1988. When National Geographic put out a special issue called, “Can Man Save This Fragile Earth?” I knew the world and common sense, was being reprogrammed.

Gilbert M. Grosvenor, the President and Chairman of the board, had obviously signed onto Al Gore’s upcoming global Armageddon. The once beloved magazine that was an encyclopedia of geography, one in which nations were portrayed as individual, became a pictorial nightmare of trash and human misery.

The globalization of that magazine is now on cable, where it proceeds to further its case. This morning I watched them try to explain just why the exodus of Moses did not happen.

Ben Stein has another movie awaiting him.

For instance, did you know that most scientists can find no evidence whatsoever that Moses lead the exodus out of Egypt, therefore, to them, it just didn’t happen?

God parting the Red Sea was particularly upsetting to them.

One scientist said that a volcano erupted causing a tsunami at exactly the right time. (They all had trouble with the timing issue.) Another made a little model of the Red Sea and pulled out his leaf blower…that was fun.

One scientist said that there were actually volcanic eruptions under the sea, which caused a temporary bridge of hot molten lava, that he believed the Jew actually ran very fast across. (Right) The Egyptians chariots sunk in the lava; Jewish Carts everyone knows, weight nothing.

Another man suggests that everyone got it wrong. Moses escaped over the Sea of Reeds…not the Red Sea.

Then one guy actually pulled out evidence (you know the kind that scientist are always claiming there is none of) to prove his theory that at the time there might have been a sandbar. He claimed no knowledge of how the sea was parted, but he did find a rock with some bronze in it, and artifacts matching the Bible. The others made fun of this guy. He needed at least three sources of “evidence” to be believed.

So, by their reasoning, God could come down to Earth, and actually part the Red Sea right before their eyes---but that wouldn’t be enough proof.

They would say, “Give us more proof that you’re God.” and God could say, “Well, I am
God because I don’t need any proof to know that you guys are morons."

In conclusion, there was no record of Moses and the Exodus never happened. So spoke National Geographic.

Well, there is no record of the Big Bang, so I guess that never happened either.

Like I said, I hate change. I opened to an article in my Readers Digest, just to be sure---
“Quenching a Thirst--How one teacher and 900 student discovered the joy of helping a village hallway around the globe.”

Until I see more proof of that joy…hey, I’m saving a tree.

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