Sheer Outrage: God’s Clear-Cut Verdict
Scott Maze
1 Corinthians 5:1-13
British Petroleum (BP) has not seen its share of shame recently. BP is the company responsible for the oil leak south of us in the Gulf of Mexico. Set off by an April 20 offshore drilling rig explosion, many BP gas stations have recently reported as much as 10 to 40 percent decline in sales. The company's image is so disgraced that people are throwing rocks at many BP gas stations around the nation. BP had bought Amaco's parent company and had changed many of the gas stations to the BP name over time. Things are so bad for the BP name that many gas stations are considering reverting back to the Amaco name as quickly as possible. BP has experienced a great deal of shame in the last several months. A little mathematical context to the spill size can put the environmental catastrophe in perspective. Yet, viewing the oil spill through some lenses, it isn't that huge. The Mississippi River pours as much water into the Gulf of Mexico in 38 seconds as the BP oil leak has done in two months. On a more human scale, the spill seems more daunting. The amount of oil spilled would fill 9,200 of the average sized living rooms. If all the oil spilled were divided up and equal amounts given to every American, everyone would get about four coke cans full of crude oil that no one really wants. If the amount of oil spilled in the gulf were converted to gasoline it would fuel American drivers for 3 hours and 41 minutes.
While the nation is wagging its collective finger at British Petroleum, much of what passes for morality in our day just won't do. Where the new confessional has been removed from the local Catholic church and been relocated to the sets of Larry King, Oprah and Dr. Phil, our nation stands in a moral free for all. Just this past week, federal judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled that Proposition 8 was unconstitutional. Proposition 8 was the controversial piece of legislation passed by the vo ...
Scott Maze
1 Corinthians 5:1-13
British Petroleum (BP) has not seen its share of shame recently. BP is the company responsible for the oil leak south of us in the Gulf of Mexico. Set off by an April 20 offshore drilling rig explosion, many BP gas stations have recently reported as much as 10 to 40 percent decline in sales. The company's image is so disgraced that people are throwing rocks at many BP gas stations around the nation. BP had bought Amaco's parent company and had changed many of the gas stations to the BP name over time. Things are so bad for the BP name that many gas stations are considering reverting back to the Amaco name as quickly as possible. BP has experienced a great deal of shame in the last several months. A little mathematical context to the spill size can put the environmental catastrophe in perspective. Yet, viewing the oil spill through some lenses, it isn't that huge. The Mississippi River pours as much water into the Gulf of Mexico in 38 seconds as the BP oil leak has done in two months. On a more human scale, the spill seems more daunting. The amount of oil spilled would fill 9,200 of the average sized living rooms. If all the oil spilled were divided up and equal amounts given to every American, everyone would get about four coke cans full of crude oil that no one really wants. If the amount of oil spilled in the gulf were converted to gasoline it would fuel American drivers for 3 hours and 41 minutes.
While the nation is wagging its collective finger at British Petroleum, much of what passes for morality in our day just won't do. Where the new confessional has been removed from the local Catholic church and been relocated to the sets of Larry King, Oprah and Dr. Phil, our nation stands in a moral free for all. Just this past week, federal judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled that Proposition 8 was unconstitutional. Proposition 8 was the controversial piece of legislation passed by the vo ...
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