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Climate Is Now a US Culture War Issue (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 114 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

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...

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 45 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

good looks at current state of humanity "Well, looks like I changed my mind"

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

But it was a pinky swear!!! /s

[–] scaredoftrumpwinning@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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?

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

"Have faith. God is perfectly capable of turning the Russian missiles right around and sending them back to Moscow." — fundie uncle

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

America is God's vessel.

Seriously, that's what "Under God" meant to them.

[–] cassetti@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

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.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/06/14/the-gripping-sermon-that-got-under-god-added-to-the-pledge-of-allegiance-on-flag-day/

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's their entire Middle East policy, fulfilling the end times prophecies

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

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?

[–] iesou@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Razzazzika@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure it is mental illness....

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We're not allowed to say that, or they might lose control and get violent because you incited them.