The Climate Science reference they don’t want Judges to read

Hmm, well it’s not just climate science they dislike, they, or more exactly, their fundamentalist/evangelical component, which seem to have a special ear of right-wing politicians, dislike other areas of environmentalism too. They interpret all scriptures literally and emphasize certain areas of the bible (but are strangely silent about others).

For example, their interpretation of Genesis 1:28,

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Subdue the earth. Have dominion over all the other species. This literalism causes them to think that that must mean that they are naturally the dominant species. All the others exist at our pleasure. At our whims.

Then there’s their interpretation of 2 Peter 3:10,

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

So hmm, if the earth is destined to be burned up anyways, and we know it’s at our disposal to use as we want till then, WELL HECK! lets just use it up! It was made for us!

Why though do they want to emphasize certain scriptures but ignore almost as non-existant other scriptures? For example Revelation 11:18,

The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come, And the time of the dead, that they should be judged, And that You should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints, And those who fear Your name, small and great, And should destroy those who destroy the earth.

Destroy those who destroy the earth. How often do you hear that one from fundamentalists? How about this one. From Ecclesiastes 1:4,

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth forever.

I am aware of at least 3 other times the Bible says that the earth lasts forever.

“Perhaps most importantly, concludes Pogue, as conservative evangelicals found their place almost exclusively in the Republican Party, they made their peace with the pro-growth, less regulation, free enterprise outlook of their political allies and associated think tanks. Thus, to give just two examples, praise for John Muir disappeared from Abeka’s textbooks, and a Southern Baptist Convention official quickly repudiated his own 1991 analysis of global warming.” from Why did conservative evangelicals turn against the environment? https://www.christiancentury.org/books/why-did-conservative-evangelicals-turn-against-environment

Since Reagan especially, it seems, Republicans have been anti-environmental. He (and gingrinch) replaced the red scare with the green scare, as they say.. I remember VP candidate Sarah Palin’s, as governor of Alaska, bounty on wolves legs. Yeah. That’s stewardship. That’s respect for God’s Creation. And each republican candidate seems to try to outdo the other now to show how anti-environmental they are – culminating in the current ******* in office.

Again, I’m not atheistic or opposed to belief in a loving God. I’m just opposed to blatant hypocrisy, and insulting the intelligence of the average person when all this anti-environmentalism and love of them is REALLY about is helping out
Big Business., the environment be damned.

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“We will mine more, drill more, cut more timber” – James Watt

“If the [spotted] owl can’t adapt to the superiority of humans, screw it.” – Rush Limbaugh

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(sorry, I hate politics, but this is a sore area.)