The devil is a murderer (John 8:44)

New evidence in a report published by the the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) suggest that the World Trade Center Towers might not have collapsed on September 11, 2001 if the steel beams forming the skeletal structure of the towers had been been fire-proofed with a safe and effective form of asbestos spray-on coating, a substance that was used on Tower One up to the thirty-eighth floor. Construction manager Rino Monti abandoned it after the the thirty-eighth floor because of (now) unjustified concerns about the risk to human health. I wonder if dying in a fire or being crushed out of recognition by a collapsing building is more hazardous to health than even the most dangerous asbestos application?

So how is Satan to blame? Simple, the environmental movement is driven by Satan. Therefore His followers in the movement may be responsible for this disaster. Let us not forget that the Sierra Club successfully blocked, for environmental reasons, reinforcement of the Mississippi levee at New Orleans just before Katrina overwhelmed it. (Another notch in the murderers belt.)

These days many Hollywood movies feature evil corporate polluters as the bad guys who are to be wiped out by crusading leftists. I wonder if Hollywood will ever turn that scenario on its head for a film about 9/11 or Katrina? Don't hold your breath.

Now I get it!

I have been wondering for some time how God is going to deal with the hubris in the medical community, as well as the hubris and ingratitude in the community at large, which takes His blessings for granted . I am particularly concerned about the indifference toward God displayed by those who enjoy His abundant blessings in health care. We must never forget how far we have come by His grace. Only 200 years ago George Washington was bled by doctors while on His death bed. The most important advances, the truly foundational ones over the last 200 years, were by medical men of faith, Christian faith. Two outstanding examples are Joseph Lister and Louis Pasteur. Modern medicine is God's blessing, not man's genius. What God gives He can and will, if the need arises, take away. Deuteronomy 28 describes the characteristics of God's blessings and curses. The blessings include fertility; victory over enemies; prosperity; rain in its season; lack of debt and more. The characteristics of cursing are (first and foremost) plagues of diseases; drought; defeat by enemies; insanity and confusion; absence of fertility; homelessness and more. Since victory over disease is a blessing, how then will the opposite come about in the days to come, at least in America? In particular how can God rescind, as it were, what He has already given? I think part of the answer is that God will send new disease for which we have no cure, or existing diseases will mutate and become tolerant of modern pharmaceuticals. We have already begun to see both of these phenomenon. Is that all? I doubt it. God has given us so much knowledge, it would be hard to negate it all at the same pace at which our hubris advances. (That is one cause of hubris - when one believes that others are powerless to affect you). Today I got the answer. God isn't going to negate all the good He has done - at least not yet. He will work in progressive stages. We have already seen strange new disease, like AIDS. We have seen resurgence of old scourges such as tuberculosis, asthma, staff infection. I think the next stage has already begun. God is going to make access to all He has blessed us with extremely difficult. As of this writing health insurance for a healthy family of four is $1000 month, privately contracted. The day when access to health care is no longer affordable for the average American is no longer just approaching, it has arrived. This is God's work, but through ordinary means. No miracles, God just causes it to happen. Louis Pasteur wasn't a "miracle", he was God's ordinary means for achieving His ends.