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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.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Thexalon on Monday February 26 2018, @04:31PM (10 children)
The funny thing is that the same people who thought Obama was a Muslim also thought he was a stooge of the thoroughly Christian Jeremiah Wright. It's almost like the religious angle wasn't the problem they had with him.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday February 26 2018, @06:33PM (2 children)
What's inconsistent about that? One doesn't need to be Christian to be a stooge.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 26 2018, @11:27PM (1 child)
Jesus Christ, OK you have a learning disability of some kind. Go get diagnosed. If you're lucky it'll just be garden variety stupid.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday February 27 2018, @12:25AM
If only you'd stop wasting our time and understand other peoples' points of view and arguments (no matter how terrible they might be). I'm not asking you to respect Birthers, I'm merely asking you to understand them well enough that you aren't being another idiot on the internet spitting out straw men. Then we wouldn't have these silly threads in the first place!
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 26 2018, @09:15PM (6 children)
Here is Obama slipping up, mentioning his Muslim faith:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKGdkqfBICw [youtube.com]
That said, I think it is more realistic to think that he is an atheist with strong positive feelings for Muslims, which is bad enough. His father was Muslim. (actually supposed to qualify you as Muslim) His elementary school is in a Muslim part of Indonesia, and thus he was surrounded by Muslims during a formative part of his life.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 26 2018, @11:24PM (1 child)
Lolol, ok lets hold ALL politicians accountable to their fuckups. Oh man this'll be funny!
I grew up around a shit ton of christians, some of whom actively tried to convert me. I still came out sane and non-christian. You can too!!! Oh wait, given what you post it is too late :( Sorry, to fake-hell with you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @03:04AM
I’m sure you slip up about your Muslim faith all the time and have the person you were talking to have to correct you. It’s funny how liberals consider themselves so intelligent. Sad.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 27 2018, @03:20AM (3 children)
Obama is an even shittier Muslim than I am or you are, though. Even the supposed moderates are duty-bound by the Quran, as I understand it, to kill people like him. So...what gives?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday February 28 2018, @03:04PM (2 children)
You understand incorrectly: If you're Jewish or Christian, the moderates don't think you're an infidel at all, but instead "People of the Book" (′Ahl al-Kitāb). This is so ingrained in Islam that you'll find things like specific protections for Jews and Christians in places like Iran.
Now, I could understand some specific Muslims wanting to kill Obama, but that would be due to drone strikes he ordered killing people attending weddings, working in a hospital, or just going about their business.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday February 28 2018, @09:39PM (1 child)
The very same Quran tells you not to associate or make friends with Jews and Christians, doesn't it? I'm not anywhere near as well-researched in Islam as I am in Christianity, but one of the principles of how the Quran works, if I understand this right, is the principle of abrogation: basically, if a later verse contradicts an earlier one, the later one takes precedence.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday February 28 2018, @10:14PM
The rule was that the Jews and Christians were generally OK so long as they paid a tax and weren't interfering with what the Muslims were doing. That had substantial implications: For instance, you were much better off as a Jew in Muslim Spain than you were as a Jew in Catholic Spain.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.