Limbaugh: ‘If You Believe In God, Then Intellectually You Cannot Believe In Manmade Global Warming’

[cbayer]

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/08/14/2469341/limbaugh-christians-global-warming/

BY JACK JENKINS, GUEST BLOGGER ON AUGUST 14, 2013 AT 3:46 PM




Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh chastised Secretary of State John Kerry during Monday’s show for having the audacity to believe in God and climate change at the same time.

Limbaugh evidently took issue with recent comments Secretary Kerry made while speaking before the State Department’s Office of Faith-Based Community Initiatives, particularly his assertion that climate change was “a challenge to our responsibilities as the guardians–safe guarders of God’s creation.”

According to Limbaugh, Kerry’s prayerful call to protect the planet was simply too much for the mind to handle:

See, in my humble opinion, folks, if you believe in God, then intellectually you cannot believe in manmade global warming … You must be either agnostic or atheistic to believe that man controls something that he can’t create.

Rush Limbaugh may not be a master of theological nuance. Still, his core assertion — that someone can’t believe in God while also believing that humanity has contributed to global climate change — dusts off an old conservative myth that, like climate change-denying in general, ignores data, facts, and the lived experience of billions of people across the globe.

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[NRaleighLiberal]

1. so we can't control gravity, natural resources, etc etc...

Rush certainly has the mind of a titan!



I personally can't believe in Rush Limbaugh - the scientist in me can't conceive of anyone being so...(fill in the adjective of your choice)

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

6. If not a Titan then perhaps a jumbo shrimp?

[okasha]

20. A rather large amoeba.

n/t

[cbayer]

7. You can control gravity??

I am currently in the grips of some serious land sickness. I feel like I am going to fall over and I would like to be able to control gravity right about now!

[NRaleighLiberal]

8. well, kinda if we are in a spaceship! good one!

clearly needed a beer with lunch...



by the way, you should put a Nausea alert on your OP - seeing a picture of Rush could be quite shocking and nausea-inducing itself!

[cbayer]

9. You had fair warning. His name was in the title along with the word "intellectually".

Should have been a dead giveaway that nothing good could follow, lol.

[tk2kewl]

2. ...and if you listen to anything this blowhard says...

you can use the word "intellectually" in describing yourself

[djean111]

3. "intellectually" covers so very many GOP bases. Not.

[Bad Thoughts]

4. "let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, ...

... over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground"

[liberal N proud]

5. There is not an intellectual bone in that lard asses but.

[demwing]

10. Hey Rush, you withered penis of a man - go read Matthew 19:26

"Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”"

[Laochtine]

11. I hate to agree with him

But believing in god and denying science are the same thing, IMO.
Makes a person feel good, but facts never enter into the equation.

[FiveGoodMen]

12. And if you believe what Rush says, you should be euthanized

[Laochtine]

25. man up

[cleanhippie]

38. WTF?

[Laochtine]

39. Yes, WTF

[cleanhippie]

40. Your return to the group has been surreal. I've only seen such incoherence here a few times before.

Those posters are no longer with us, but you bring eerie familiarities.

When you flame out, do it with style, won't you?

[Laochtine]

41. You've always been so kind

I do everything with style, my Friend

[cleanhippie]

42. Then it is obvious we do not agree on what style means.

Perhaps I should have said "spectacular". Make it spectacular, please.

[Laochtine]

43. can you pay me to be spectacular?

Your call

[indie9197]

13. Wow, I guess logic is irrelevant

Does he not understand the concept of pollution? We can ruin our groundwater, our rivers, our forests, and oceans but it is impossible to ruin our atmosphere?

[d_r]

14. If you believe in God

then you can't believe in this-

[safeinOhio]

16. If you believe in God

how can you believe in Ayn Rand?

[Laochtine]

44. she wrote a book, terrible but it was here

[Common Sense Party]

15. Rush is no theological scholar.

Nor has he set foot in a church in 40 years.

[LostOne4Ever]

17. The Dumb

It burns....

[hrmjustin]

18. I can not say I am surprised by anything this man says.

[Peacetrain]

19. What a loopy person

His mentality was the type that brought Jesus up on charges and had the Romans crucify him.

He is such a fearful person. So afraid of the slightest thing outside of his established prejudices.

[rug]

21. Just because he can't even control his pilonidal cysts, it does not mean there is a God.

[Laochtine]

45. Attack the info

hate the messange

[Laochtine]

48. Things are disappering

But you know

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

46. It just hit me that Rush's problem may be that he listens to the cysts in his ass

They probably speak to him at night and while he's on the john.

They would have told him to not go into the military since they might have gotten shot off along with the rest of his ass.

[deutsey]

22. Just another fevered ego taining our collective unconscious

and making us pay a higher psychic price than we can imagine...To paraphrase Bill Hicks.

[gopiscrap]

23. Limpballs is a fucking idiot

[Donald Ian Rankin]

24. I'm not sure which is weirder, his theology or his science.

He accepts that humans can commit murder as compatible with religion, but not that we can release large quantities of gas into the atmosphere?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. Limbaugh releases large quantities of gas into the atmosphere

on a daily basis. He's probably as responsible for global warming all by himself as a whole city full of cars.

[cbayer]

27. Lol! Excellent.

[Laochtine]

47. Really? pay a subhumane to yell immagrant

Know fox it up

[nykym]

28. To many people religion is

not an intellectual choice, They were indoctrinated into the religion by their parents.
It was more likely an act of imitation and a desire to please on the part of the offspring.
So Rush, what intellectual discussions did you have with your parents about becoming a member of the church?

[ladjf]

29. What a moronic piece of thinking! nt

[Gothmog]

30. Why would anyone listen to Limbaugh on anything?

In this case, Limbaugh is just plain wrong. Science and religion can exist side by side. There are some great works by Jewish rabbis reconciling the Torah with science http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-geoffrey-a-mitelman/why-can-judaism-embrace-s_b_880003.html

[cbayer]

31. I used to listen once in awhile when I needed to get my outrage going,

but haven't listened to this blowhard for years.

Thanks for the link. I am also someone who feels science and religion can coexist.

[Gothmog]

34. There are some great works by the Rabbis on the co-existence of science and religion

I can look for the links later but I was impressed with these works

[cbayer]

36. It's a subject much discussed in this group with a great variety of opinions,

as you can imagine.

[blueknight]

32. it really pisses me off

that this fucking imbecile makes 30 million dollars a year, and we have PHD's teaching who barely make enough to live comfortably

[struggle4progress]

33. Rush is 100% about ratings. His sole object is gaining attention through controversy,

to guarantees "name recognition" and advertisers

It's impossible to "debunk " him because there's never actually any actual coherent claim to debunk: a statement like If you believe in God, you can't believe in manmade global warming is gibberish, intended only to excite emotions by grabbing certain stereotypes

He fuggs up folks thing with bullshizz to turn a buck

There's nothing else there

Nothing

[shenmue]

35. He is a booger on the planet's hanky.

Time we threw his dumb show in the laundry.

[tularetom]

37. No he isn't

He is a skid mark on the planet's jockey shorts is what he is.

[MrModerate]

49. The number of things that Limbaugh can't understand . . .

Would fill the Library of Congress.

In fact, I think those things do fill the Library of Congress!