Via Drudge: Environmentalists are evidently building a memorial to Noah's Ark on Arrarat. This is supposed to be some kind of publicity stunt to warn people about the theorized consequences of global warming I can't help but think that it shows a deeply immature approach to exegesis. Imagine reading the story of Noah to someone and having their response be: "Boy...I sure would be afraid of rising water levels! I'd hate to drown. I better make sure I have an ark, too!" It's like a third grader's superficial response to plotpoints.
The point of Noah, last time I checked, was that he was the last good and obedient man in a world gone bad. And when the story is over, God seems to have enjoyed none of it and says He is never doing that again.
The irony is that most of these environmentalists are probably also advocating precisely the kinds of lifestyles that God and Noah rejected. But it shouldn't come as that much of a surprise if they try to deconstruct the ark into a environmentalist symbol...just look what they did to the rainbow, which (according to the Noah story) was supposed to be God's sign that He wouldn't let the Earth be destroyed on account of human actions:
- "See, I am now establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you and with every living creature that was with you: all the birds, and the various tame and wild animals that were with you and came out of the ark. I will establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all bodily creatures be destroyed by the waters of a flood; there shall not be another flood to devastate the earth...This is the sign that I am giving for all ages to come, of the covenant between me and you and every living creature with you:I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth, and the bow appears in the clouds, I will recall the covenant I have made between me and you and all living beings, so that the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all mortal beings. As the bow appears in the clouds, I will see it and recall the everlasting covenant that I have established between God and all living beings--all mortal creatures that are on earth."
Now the Ark is reduced to a green logo, the rainbow is reduced to a gay pride bumper sticker, and God has been stripped of any power over His own physical creation.
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