as the flood waters rise in the american south, they will stand in the water, knee-deep and bible in hand, and question imaginary creatures in the sky as to what it is that they did that created such wrath.

they will not consult the science. they will not mitigate. they will not adapt.

what they will do, instead, is pray.

some will pray for forgiveness, whereas others will welcome the end times, comfortable in their own self-righteousness and awaiting a future of eternal life. all of it as the byzantines did centuries earlier, as the barbarians closed in from all sides.

such is the inevitable downfall of a society rooted in faith.

and, if there is somehow a god, such stupidity is truly worthy of it's wrath and contempt.