Rating 3 out of 5 (Fairly platitudinous)

We have had a flood of biblical proportions. Of course, the biblical flood wasn't actually real. Unlike all the stories about Jesus, which were real and definitely did happen, the flood story is not real and definitely did not happen. It is a story, an allegory, a myth from which we should draw understanding. It tells the story of how the Invisible Magic Friend got angry, killed just about everything on planet Irth, and then having done so, said "sorry" and invented pretty rainbows to cheer everyone up, or at least those still alive. It was a really lucky fluke that light never refracted that way before the first rainbow.

In reality, my Invisible Magic Friend does not get angry. In fact, being timeless and unchanging, he cannot actually "get" anything, but in particular he doesn't get angry. He made the rainbow "bow" shaped to show that he was hanging up his weapons of war, despite the fact that he definitely never got angry, never flooded the planet and never waged war on planet Irth. The flood that didn't happen, reminded the Invisible Magic Friend (although he didn't need reminding because he cannot forget anything and had never been angry in the first place) how much he loved the Irth. It is a promise that he will never again (although he didn't do it even once) destroy the entire Irth.

British people, who regard themselves as being invincible, find themselves powerless against the forces of nature, i.e. the forces of the Invisible Magic Friend. He may have promised not to flood the Irth, but he does like to practise a little from time to time on places like Cumbria, El Salvador and New Orleans.

But when will people learn not to wage war on the planet's Irth's climate?

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