Imagine a fellow sitting alone in his one room efficiency apartment. In his hand, he sports a flyswatter, and in his apartment, there is indeed a fly on the loose. The man is singularly preoccupied with killing that bug. He sits on a chair in the center of the room vigilantly keeping watch for any movement of his prey. As he waits, he conjures up all the dire consequences that could happen if the fly was to simply go about its business uncontested. That insect, he thinks to himself, is probably a germy little beast and if it was to land on my toast, I just might catch whatever it’s carrying! The mental list of what that fly could do goes on and on, and a molehill becomes a mountain.

At the perimeter of the man’s awareness is the presence of something else in his one room efficiency besides the fly. Although the man kinda-sorta knows something else is in the room, he nonetheless relegates it to the back of his mind. Right now, he’s got to deal with that little buzzing nemesis. Unfortunately for the fly-preoccupied man, the something else in his room is a serpent of the poisonous variety. Although the man may be selectively ignoring the serpent, the reverse is certainly not true. The serpent is keenly aware of the man and regards him as an existential threat. The poor, hapless, obsessed man is in mortal danger and he’s barely even aware of it . . . thanks to that fly.

The small story above is a pretty fair analogy of what the World Council of Churches (WCC) is planning to do. The WCC is calling for all member churches to ring their bells 350 times on December 13, 2009. The number of rings (350) is meant to remind people of the upper limit of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that many scientist have declared as safe; it’s been set by these scientists at 350 parts per million. And the December 13th date? Well, that’s meant to coincide with the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit.

The WCC (made up of 348 Protestant, Orthodox, and Anglican churches in 110 countries) is also encouraging all other faiths to join in and ring whatever it is they may have on hand, such as a gong. Even the Catholic Bishops in Europe (The Council of European Bishops Conferences) have signed on.

This bell ringing exercise is no different than the fly-preoccupied man in the story above. While the WCC, and all else who jump on their bandwagon, chase an essentially harmless fly (i.e. the farce of global warming/climate change/Gaia worship), a real serpent inches closer to its victim waiting for the perfect moment to strike a decisive death blow. While the WCC and company dilly dally about global climate change and elevate it to the equivalent of a sin to deny it, the serpent goes about its work in the forms of abortion, plummeting birth rates, the withering of the traditional family, the destruction of the institution of marriage, etc.

Chasing flies and ringing bells . . . it’s the kind of wicked irrationality that makes one think of the devious planning between Uncle Screwtape and Wormwood in C.S. Lewis’ “The Screwtape Letters.” I can just imagine Uncle Screwtape writing, “Let’s give those humans an obsession that’s no more than an emanation from a penumbra of a new and false religion derived from science, politics, and nature worship. They will love the faux righteous feel of it and not notice a single thing as we go about the devilish work of tearing apart all that is true, good, and beautiful.”

The ringing of the bells on December 13, 2009 will not be a call to worship, honor, and the love the Lord your God. It will be a call to worship at the altar of Gaia in honor of the Gospel of radical environmentalism. If anything were to sound like Hell’s Bells, this is probably it.

News Source: Brietbart.com