By Tommy Acosta :  From the sky a bolt of lightning crashes down incinerating the most beloved symbol of Christianity.  Has Mother Nature gone mad? What could explain the May 14 electrocution of a six-story statue of Jesus Christ in Ohio by a thunder storm-generated lightning strike that burnt the icon to a crisp in a matter of minutes?

As if the earthquakes in Haiti, Chili and China that have killed 250,00 people so far this year; the tornadoes ravaging and chomping their way across the midsection of America; the floods sweeping children away in their sleep in Arkansas and Oklahoma; exploding volcanoes stopping air traffic throughout Europe; and the weather anomalies ravaging the continent are not enough.

Earthquakes, floods, volcanoes are ravaging the earth. Now we have Jesus in flames. Is there some kind of a message here? A symbolic gesture by Mother Nature she has had enough?

Have we gone too far in our pillaging of earth’s natural resources, our poisoning of its waters and air and our destruction of its forests and wildlife? Has she finally reached her breaking point, especially now that we pieced her through the heart with a 6-mile deep oil well in the Gulf of Mexico?  Her oil spurts almost like human blood from a pierced heart into the most abundant ecological system and sea food source on this planet.

The spill staining the Gulf not only seeps black but red oil as well, leading those who believe in Biblical Prophecy to note the end of times has arrived, as the statement in Revelations “The seas shall turn to blood” is fulfilled.

Yes, something is wrong. There is this ominous foreboding of bad things to come.

The earth is trembling and at any moment now she may shrug her shoulders and shake humanity from her surface off into space, like a dog sprays water droplets after a brisk swim.

This lightning strike of the Jesus statue, what are the odds of such a thing happening? As well, the lightning strike of the Discoverer Enterprise ship trying to contain the massive oil spill now spoiling our southern coastlines, struck the day after the statue of Jesus was obliterated. What the heck is going on? What is coming next?

Many believe the earth is a living organism, conscious of itself, conscious she serves as home for humanity providing sustenance and every conceivable type of raw material for humans to cloth, shelter and prosper.

This may or may not be so but it is too obvious we have gone way too far. In vast areas of the open ocean Manhattan-sized islands of fused plastic garbage have formed, floating upon the surface like open scabs visible from space.

The polar ice-caps are melting. Ice burgs are ripping away. Above the planet space is littered with debris from junked satellites and rocket launches.

It is no wonder Mother Nature is on a war path.

There is a sense of disconnect permeating the planet. Since April more than ten airplanes crashed into the ground: 158 dead in Mangalore, India; 44 dead in Afghanistan; 104 dead in Tripoli, Lybia;103 dead in Indonesia; 96 dead in Smolensk, Russia…and it goes on. The wars in the Mideast continue unabated. The Koreas are facing off in what could become a nuclear duel. And let’s not forget, as doomsday theorists proclaim, 2012 is just around the corner.

Perhaps we as humans are now in a place where we have one of two choices to make. Continue on our path to oblivion. Or, do something now to stop the poisoning of our planet. The answer cannot be more obvious.

We are in a place of no choice. Save the planet or the world ends as we know it.