NPR theme this morning: "Geology confirming theology"

[IDemo]

They had a combination of stories on the morning commute that seemed almost Onionish in their almost too stupid even for Conservadumb. The first pertained to gas and oil reserves in Israel and the exciting prospect of making them energy independent via extracting oil out of shale (see - Canada).

The second story was about a Texan who believes he has a god-driven mandate to drill for oil, again in Israel, to satisfy a biblical prophecy. The company has produced 4 dry holes so far in their drilling efforts. The motto hanging on the wall reads "Geology confirming theology". So far, the rocks seem to have an atheistic point of view.

Never a blip about the possible effects on global CO2 levels...

[Wilms]

1. "So far, the rocks seem to have an atheistic point of view."

You won your own thread!

[Enthusiast]

2. This is why NPR is dead to me.

Now they're peddling the kind of ignorance one used to see on Fox "News".

[Xyzse]

4. I sometimes feel that way... However, on this story.

All it told me is what NOT to invest in.

That idiot was wasting money saying "Everywhere I drill, I come with oil", then a few seconds within the story it mentions that he hasn't even drilled anywhere with oil yet.

Dumb.

[Berlum]

13. Ditto. The right-wing Republicon STINK coming from NPR (R) is not always obvious

but it is almost always there. They have really sold out their integrity...

[Vashta Nerada]

3. That crap was on NPR?

[Blue Owl]

5. I swear I heard that BS too

But figured I wasn't quite fully awake yet...

[G_j]

6. never mind that a quote he is inspired by

from the Bible, actually translates to "olive oil"
not "petroleum".

[IDemo]

9. Oh man...

No wonder last night's stir fry was so horrible.

[Enthusiast]

16. That is horrible.

I don't believe mineral oil was in wide use at that time. I believe they called it "pitch". If it didn't seep out of the ground as in the Beverly Hillbillies there wasn't any available. That's why human beings killed whales for hundreds of years. But righties will believe anything.

[Blue Idaho]

7. National Republican Radio.

NPR has lost all credibility in its headlong rush to blindly parrot the daily issued TeaPublican talking points.

Turn it off and tell your congress critter to stop government funding for NPR.

[tabasco]

21. Absolutely right.

Good advice.

[PCIntern]

8. from Hebrew School, 1970: so Moses on Mt. Sinai asks God:

So let me get this straight: you are going to give the Arabs all the oil and we get to cut off the tip of our WHAT?

[Enthusiast]

17. Funny!

[NuclearDem]

10. Protip NPR: Ken Ham will hate you regardless.

[MisterP]

11. story's up

http://www.npr.org/2013/11/27/247465505/texas-oil-man-commanded-by-the-bible-drills-in-israel

Deut. 32:13 mentions oil from crags, but it's *edible* oil, so it's an elision (oil *from trees* on flinty crags)

there's also a fixed formula ("thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil" in the KJV), but that's a list of foods (which was picked up by the Freemasons)

on edit: WHAT THEOLOGY?

[G_j]

12. the dude is in the wrong line of work..

no wonder he's coming up empty.
God wants him to be in the food industry.

[MisterP]

14. I mean, I figured that out with 3 minutes and BibleGateway.com

let alone BibleHub's parallel versions, and without a single targum, midrash, or talmud! not a pardes or oral tradition or realizing that "This complexity of Torah is related to the complexity of the Jewish tradition, it cannot be understood solely within the Western concept of a religion. At the same time, the fact that the teachings are embedded in story, influences the flexible attitude that Jews take towards their code of life" (Wiki)!

[hatrack]

15. What theology? That's easy - there's a flock, and he's sure as shit fleecing it.

Sounds biblical to me.

If you've read "Under The Banner Of Heaven" and are familiar with the Dream Mine, same chapter, different verse.

World's second-oldest profession strikes again!

[ancianita]

18. NPR is hittin' the skids...Good lord... Guess that's where their money's coming from these days.

[Faryn Balyncd]

19. NPR is now run by a GOP donating, RW think tank affiliated , former financiial industry lobbyist.

GW Bush appointed right wingers to run NPR.

They are worse than Fox, since they deliver right wing propaganda wrapped in a phony "liberal" accent.

[a kennedy]

20. and they're still BEGGING for money......a last year contribution.

Done, I tell ya, I'm done with the National Public Radio, I do try to listen to one local host, Kathleen Dunn out of Milwaukee, she's the best, and I do contribute when she's on.

[Stevepol]

22. Hey, I heard this program and it wasn't what posters are saying.

This program just covered some of the hair-brained schemes of certain groups about finding oil in Israel. Why is that something that is secretly pushing a conservative agenda and thus an indication of bias in public radio??

"Geology confirming theology"??

When I clicked on this, I thought this was a post about the confirmation of some of the events or sites in the Bible due to recent archeological digs. Instead it was just about some religious crazies trying to find oil in Israel. And it was well done, tongue in cheek for the most part.

It's not necessary to find secret right-wingers under every toadstool. Some toadstools are just toadstools.