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As smoke from Canadian wildfires drifted across the Midwest and Northeast this summer, the media apparatus immediately framed the haze as proof of a worsening climate crisis.
Television screens filled with hazy skylines and headlines declared the smoke evidence of human-driven catastrophe, even before investigators established the cause of many blazes.
The fires were largely ignited by lightning, a force as ancient as the forests themselves, carried on prevailing winds that have operated since the continents took their shape.
This reflexive leap from observable smoke to ideological proof follows the pattern of the Managerial Priesthood, which seizes every natural event to advance its narrative of control over creation.
Scripture and the undivided creeds affirm that the created order operates under the sovereign hand of God, not the constructed alarms of technocrats who treat nature as raw material for political ends.
From the Reformation's recovery of the objective authority of the Word against medieval accretions to the present assault on observable reality, the Church has always stood against the substitution of human opinion for divine order.
The faithful remnant must now reject the equation of every smoky sky with apocalyptic judgment and restore the distinction between natural phenomena and the ideological weaponization of science.
Households and parishes must anchor themselves once more in the real created order, refusing the deceptions that dissolve stewardship into submission to the climate state.
