Now? Now?
I grew up with evangelicals who were enraged at the blasphemous insult that God did not control the Earth absolutely, and therefore the earth couldn’t be getting hotter unless God decided it was time for judgement day, in which case, celebrate, because those jews are finally getting what’s coming to them.
This sounds like mental illness to normal people…
I grew up with evangelicals who believed it was blasphemous to say the icecaps are melting because God promised to never flood the Earth again lol
good looks at current state of humanity “Well, looks like I changed my mind”
But it was a pinky swear!!! /s
Did you ever ask them about nuclear bombs and we could wipe out all life except cockroaches several times over and make the earth uninhabitable for 10000 years or did this not count?
“Have faith. God is perfectly capable of turning the Russian missiles right around and sending them back to Moscow.” — fundie uncle
America is God’s vessel.
Seriously, that’s what “Under God” meant to them.
That’s their entire Middle East policy, fulfilling the end times prophecies
If Jesus came back without all the jews penned in Israel so he could nuke them all at once, how can Christianity live with itself?
Yeah, “under god” was not added to currency or the pledge until 1954, in response to the civil rights movement of the era. The founding fathers would have be rolling in their grave if they could.
I came here to comment this. It’s always been a culture war, beyond religious views, it’s never been popular with the majority to say that our largest industries and companies are willfully ignoring and hiding the truth about what is in humanity’s best interests in order to achieve growth.
Yeah, what’s this “now” bullshit?
I don’t get this line of reason I ng, cause wasn’t earth given to the humans by God to be the caretakers of the planet? If so, were doing a pretty shitty job of it.
Evangelicals rewrite the Bible in places where convenient.
God didn’t give the earth to humans for caretaking, he gave it to us, and no man can undo what God hath wrought, so even if it is ruined somehow, God will rapture the faithful to a new realm leaving the damned to burn on earth for eternity as the new purgatory/hell.
Its muddled, but the point is it means evangelicals win no matter what, so don’t worry about it.
Exactly. And you don’t need to go that far into the Bible to see that, just look at Genesis 2:15, 19-20:
15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
19 And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field
That sounds to me like God is handing things over to Adam, and by extension people.
And then you have the parables of the talents (Matthew 25:14-30) and the vineyard owner (Matthew 21:33-46) in the New Testament (among others) that are all about stewardship.
So my question for people who use this argument is, would God be happy if He came to visit today? How would He feel about how we’ve treated the Earth He made?
This goes for any religion with a creation story.
I’m pretty sure it is mental illness…
We’re not allowed to say that, or they might lose control and get violent because you incited them.
Now? Now as in the last 50+ years?
It wasn’t fully polarized by party until around 2009, when the fossil fuels industry decided to buy off the Repiblicans in response to an attempt to pass cap and trade legislation.
“They’re only 14 years behind the times, not 50.”
As someone who grew up on the early 00s, this is inaccurate. It was fully polarized during the Bush years.
It was polarized, but not fully. This ad is from 2008
Wait, the republicans? They were the only party that was bought off? Are you sure about that?
They certainly are both in the pockets of corporations. But only one party is fighting a war on reality.
alway has been
No it’s a capitalist issue. The biggest problem by far is corporations. Anything distracting from that fact is propaganda as far as I’m concerned.
Slow news day?
FYI The Sky is now blue.
Shocking, US in another war
Now? Ad nauseum.
Literally always has been…
I think we might be doomed.
If it’s a culture issue, then let’s frame it as “capitalist culture vs save the planet culture.”
Gonna spam this in 3 different places?
The New York times exist to put a blue face on the failure of Capitalism. If you think the solution to climate change exist within our political parties, or via voting, the problem is you.
Also Citing Paul Krugman, the manifestation of neo-liberal talking points, and the failure of third-way politics reflects really badly on you OP.
Wow, Paul Krugman is still employed? Terrific. Hmm, let’s see. The Climate change agenda is an “issue” because it reeks badly of ulterior motives. Like, control the 'little people" and burden them with obnoxious regulations, rules and whatever else while the wealthy just go on doing as they please. As soon as this gets brought up, the celebs and politicians scatter like ants being sprayed with raid. They fly around in jets, we can’t fly or have to fly like 5th class. No gas powered cars for us but they can have Ferrari collections. We have to live in stacked, crappy apartments while they party it up in their gated mansions. Sorry, not happening. As soon as they hand it all over in the name of climate we can talk. Mm Kay? Good.
Trust the science. Sure, Jan. Why not parade Fauci out there again? LOL.
This reads like an AI generated post trained on everyone’s terrible uncles.
🤔 I wonder how many Lemmy accounts actually are just AI-generated bots?
