An Overlooked Dimension of the Republican Psychosis We are Up Against

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"The road to environmental apocalypse

writes "Grist Magazine, Oct. 27, 2004

by Glenn Scherer

"A kind of secular apocalyptic sensibility pervades much contemporary writing about our current world. Many books about environmental dangers, whether it be the ozone layer, or global warming or pollution of the air or water, or population explosion, are cast in an apocalyptic mold." -- Historian Paul Boyer


"When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale; the sky vanished like a scroll that is rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place." -- Revelation 6:12-17

Abortion. Same-sex marriage. Stem-cell research.

U.S. legislators backed by the Christian Right vote against these issues with near-perfect consistency. That probably doesn't surprise you, but this might: Those same legislators are equally united and unswerving in their opposition to environmental protection."

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