Something to think about:

Have you noticed how fearful our news media seems to be here in America? Right now, the focus is on the upcoming elections, but think about some of the reporting in the last few years. Whatever happened to bird flu? A little over a year ago it was poised to decimate the world’s population with a pandemic after it morphed into human to human infection capability. I wonder has it stopped occurring or has the media just lost interest?

We have gone through several phases of fearful forecasts of climate change. Last year after a near record hurricane season, you would have thought that surely most of coastal America would be destroyed this year. We are near the end of the hurricane season, and I think our media was greatly disappointed that we have had no tropical storm catastrophes as of yet.

As I recall, it seems that during some unusually slow news periods, the media dredged up the possibility of an asteroid or comet hitting the earth. One of the networks had a special series depicting the numerous ways that life on earth could be cataclysmically ended.

I have asked myself why the fascination of our news media on such fearful topics? I think one reason is the dissatisfaction of the majority of the media with our present government and administration. Maybe they want to create fear, so that somehow either the present administration could be blamed for the fearful possibilities, or hinted to be unconcerned and unable to protect America from them. I had almost decided that must be the case, and then, out of the blue, maybe the true crux of the issue.

It dawned on me that we may be seeing a natural result of years of secular humanism that has been taught in our schools and colleges, and may form the foundation for the worldview that has been preached and propagated by our media. From Hollywood to New York, movie sets to newsrooms, it may be that the majority of those in power there tend to not believe in a creator designed and controlled universe. From what they tend to report, and how they portray religion, especially the Judeo/Christian type, I think that is probably the case.

When a person has become firmly convinced that there is no God; that our existence here on this planet is just a lucky happenstance of evolution, then it must become a very fearful world indeed. Humanity hangs by a thread. We never know what event may be about to wipe us all out. A comet, an asteroid, global warming, pandemic, anything could happen and eventually will. If mankind controls his destiny and no creator exists as humanism professes, then we must learn to control the forces that threaten our existence. We need a vaccine for every flu, we need to control the weather, we need a defense against rogue meteors, asteroids, and comets. And what are we to do about those pesky solar flares. And what if the sun starts to burn out before we have colonized other solar systems? Its enough to worry a newsperson to death.