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posted by mrpg on Monday February 26 2018, @01:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the dinosaurs-are-oil dept.

In a recent interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network, Scott Pruitt, EPA Chief, said that the Bible tells people to use all the resources available to us, including fossil fuels:
"The biblical world view with respect to these issues is that we have a responsibility to manage and cultivate, harvest the natural resources that we've been blessed with to truly bless our fellow mankind".

According to Vox: "But as far as his biblical assertion goes, Pruitt's words reflect a wider trend among American evangelicals, who largely have not embraced scientific thought on environmentalism or global warming."

The Trump administration has used a variety of excuses to legitimize its record-setting rollbacks on environmental protections: calling global warming a hoax, or arguing that the economic consequences of increased regulation would outweigh their benefit.

The latest justification? The Bible.

In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network, a media outlet that also seems to double as a propaganda arm of the Trump administration, Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt said his Christian convictions led him to conclude that America should use gas and coal freely because natural resources exist purely for man's benefit.

[...] That's why evangelical groups have, therefore, been historically resistant to environmentalist causes. Creationist lobbying groups frequently fund initiatives like the Louisiana Science Education Act, which mandates a "balanced" (and climate change-denying) approach to teaching environmental issues in public schools.

Please read the linked article as it explains the connection between contempt for science and protecting the environment and the beliefs of evangelicals.


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by VLM on Monday February 26 2018, @01:44PM (4 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 26 2018, @01:44PM (#643912)

    All "things that get turned into religions" are self serving. Christianity, Leftist progressivism, its all the same.

    BTW this is being demonized as being Satanic but I'm not seeing the problem:

    arguing that the economic consequences of increased regulation would outweigh their benefit

    Maybe engineering thinking is too far opposed to normie thinking or enviro nut thinking. Probably this horror response is from the watermelon people (green enviro nuts on the outside, commie reds on the inside), for them the only purpose of enviro stuff is to eliminate capitalism (plus or minus white males) from the planet

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 26 2018, @02:10PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 26 2018, @02:10PM (#643929)

    All "things that get turned into religions" are self serving. Christianity, Leftist progressivism, its all the same.

    In your list, you left out the religion of the invisible hand.

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Monday February 26 2018, @02:48PM (2 children)

      by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 26 2018, @02:48PM (#643949)

      Agreed, AC, the only time you see propaganda worship of the free market in legacy media is from someone trying to protect a price gouging monopoly. With a side dish of someone trying to protect a rigged market. Outside legacy media, far enough away from monopoly problems, there are some genuine believers.

      Another good one is the Libertarians who talk a good talk but mostly want to smoke pot. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but don't feed me an elaborate philosophical rationalization that could only apply to a society where every participant in the unified culture has an IQ over 120 when the only real personal reason is "I wanna get high".

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 26 2018, @09:56PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 26 2018, @09:56PM (#644234)

        Then there is you, the propagandists favorite collaborator. At least your brain is capable of understanding some things without the Fox News seal of approval.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @01:46AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @01:46AM (#644369)

        hey if every value participant in your new culture had an iq of and over 120 which would then make it the new average iq, wouldn't that make them have an iq of 100, because the score is a based on a sliding scale that changes over time based on the progressive education of the society using it as a baseline measurement for how the average individual ranks?

        also i always score higher than average on average.