RW'ers panicking over Global Warming!

[ck4829]

No, not because of Global Warming's potential for environmental damage and the potential to destroy human lives, but because it might cramp their style.

"It seems as if James Dobson and his cronies are suddenly getting very concerned about the threat of global warming - not the threat it poses to the environment and humanity, mind you, but the threat it poses to their own political empire.

So concerned are the likes of Dobson, Tony Perkins, Don Wildmon, Gary Bauer, Rick Scarborough, Paul Weyrich, Harry Jackson, and others that they have taken it upon themselves to write a letter (PDF) to the National Association of Evangelicals demanding that it fire its own Vice President for Governmental Affairs, Richard Cizik, and cease and desist caring about global warming:

Although we, the undersigned, are not members of the National Association of Evangelicals, our organizations interface with it regularly and consider it to be an important Christian institution in today’s culture. From that perspective, we are writing the Board of Directors to call attention to what we perceive as a threat to the unity and integrity of the Association.

Despite the fact that not one of the signers is even a member of the NAE, they still feel justified in complaining about NEA’s work on global warming. Why? Because they fear it is undermining their own anti-choice, anti-gay agenda:

More importantly, we have observed that Cizik and others are using the global warming controversy to shift the emphasis away from the great moral issues of our time, notably the sanctity of human life, the integrity of marriage and the teaching of sexual abstinence and morality to our children."

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2007/03/the_political_t.html

[Blue Belle]

1. We, the undersigned, and the other supporters of the Flat Earth Society...

are too ignorant to realize that preserving the sanctity of human life means preserving the planet we live on, and can't be bothered with giving up our SUV's. Jesus saves! :eyes:

[piedmont]

4. To call them ignorant gives them far too much credit.

These people are master manipulators. They quite willfully distort reality for their "flocks."

[Bassic]

6. Their twisted view of Jesus

Along with a lot of other people's twisted view of God, in whatever form, will one day bring the extinction of humanity. And the way things are going, maybe that's a good thing.



La fin de l'homme ne sera pas la fin du monde. (Daniel Bélanger)

[Lint Head]

2. The end of the world.

These idiots want the world to end so the Messiah will return. They are 'rapture ready'. They think that God has charged all Christians to consume the earth. That he put the earth hear to be consumed and then paradise will come.

These heretics have hijacked Christianity the same way radical Muslims have hijacked Islam. They wouldn't know what Jesus stood far if it was written on a forty foot cross and they were pounded in the head with it.

:dem:

[lizerdbits]

3. They can't focus on real problems

they're too busy inventing "threats" that aren't going to harm anyone like gay marriage. They don't have enough time!

[seasat]

5. It's that the IPCC report that has come out.

They're mobilizing their troops and dusting off old talking points to try to discredit it. I've seen renewed postings from the neoluddites in other forums. The Repug columnists have started throwing out their favorite already discredited points. Dobson, the SBC, and other megachurch pastors have become arms of the Repug party and their oil and industry funding. They are following their lead. They aren't worried about it from a religious perspective. They are worried because if their major donors lose some money and influence, they'll lose their power. It reminds me of one of my favorite verses:

"What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?" Matthew 16:26

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. If they can't see global warming as a moral issue....

:eyes:

[opihimoimoi]

8. Them Assholes are NOT PART of the Problem...THEY ARE THE PROBLEM

FANTASY...thats what they believe...

They reject REALITY.....

Thats aka DELUSIONAL....

[Old and In the Way]

9. Choice and Homosexuality won't matter if we destroy the environment.

They, along with the Republican Party, are politically married to the anti-global warming movement. Because it is our issue. Therefore, they have to be against it. As more evidence proves that it is happening, their position becomes more untenable. It becomes another article of faith. You believe GW doesn't exist like you believe in the infallibility of the Bible. If they are wrong on this issue, what makes them right on other issues? Many progressive people who are Christians see no contradiction in being good stewards of the Earth...it seems to be a position Jesus Christ would readily adopt today, no? So this issue is a grave threat to their doctrinaire hegemony....once they start losing the congregation on this issue, their political/financial power will start to erode.