In the days of old in ancient Egypt there was a time in the troubled kingdom where ten terrible plagues were visited on the land: the Nile turned to blood, frogs covered the land, lice emerged from the ground, flies covered everything, all the livestock died, the people were infected with boils, hail rained on the land, locust ate all their crops, darkness enveloped them, and lastly, the first-born sons died. Then Pharaoh finally released all the Israelites. When we were little and learned of these at church or in Sunday School, we were taught that God visited these maladies on the Egyptians in short order, sequentially, and by divine hand. Let’s just stick with that for now, but also understand, that this might not have been just a bad year, or month, or week, but that the timing could have been a lot different than our little minds thought in that sunny little classroom. Maybe also, these things didn’t just pop up out of nowhere, overnight, directly upon the word of Moses. Maybe things happened in the natural world that correlated to the outcomes detailed in the book of Exodus. We don’t know for sure, we can’t know, but we shouldn’t dismiss either scenario out of hand. Every single plague that struck Egypt could occur in some proportion, somewhere on the earth, if conditions in nature line up just right. Not only that, but those that study the collapse of civilizations often find that the daft rulers themselves tinkered with something in their kingdom to start their own ruin – the famine, the infestation, or the pox.
This brings us to modern day California and certain extraordinarily wealthy elite neighborhoods that just happen to be populated primarily by notoriously outspoken progressives – either coerced or sincere, maybe that doesn’t make a difference – and that hundreds, yea, even thousands of their homes burned to the ground in a few short days in a firestorm of historical ‘biblical’ proportions. We must be very careful about judging catastrophe that comes on other people because the same proportioned ruin could happen to us at any moment for any reason. A nearby community comes to mind where a gas leak in one home subsequently leveled half a block of houses. What this moral caution teaches us is that the innocent are not immune from the mistakes, the failings, the willful neglect, or the resident evil of authorities over them. What it also teaches us is that seemingly indiscriminate consequences almost always have discriminate causes and that truly random accidents are rare. If a sink hole opens up and swallows you tonight, some entity likely altered something underground to create that condition. In California, the causes are already well known. Far left progressivism rendered back to them in due measure as it was sown. Multiple state-blessed and -encouraged homeless and illegal immigrants dropped a match or intentionally threw a match; it matters little who the exact perps were. Benevolent Mother Earth or God – choose your poison – providing the Santa Ana winds, Newsom’s fake twisted socialist environmentalism deprived the land of water, and yet left it with millions of tons of fire fuel, and last but by not least, promoted ideologically perverse woke DEI government agencies, consequences be damned and known and thus double damned. Given these ‘natural’ causes, it isn’t religious zealotry to affix the mistakes – errors – evil of a voting population to the outcome of fire in paradise and to observe the destruction and destitution on themselves, equally alongside their innocent neighbors. Another way to put it would be this, to compare two cities enduring the same windstorm, one with a full reservoir and the best firemen, the other with an empty lakebed and fools for officials that spent all their money on something like drag queen shows. Tonight, one city is standing and the other is smoldering embers. Even if you’re a godless cynic hostile toward any notion of judgement, you must understand that if nothing else, luck favors the prepared, or better yet, those who don’t willfully sow to their own predictable and inevitable outcome.
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