XtraChromeosome: these xtians are gonna kill us all

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

xchrom (89,976 posts)

Belief in biblical end-times stifling climate change action in U.S.: study

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/01/belief-in-end-times-stifling-climate-change-action-in-u-s-study/
 
The United States has failed to take action to mitigate climate change thanks in part to the large number of religious Americans who believe the world has a set expiration date.
 
Research by David C. Barker of the University of Pittsburgh and David H. Bearce of the University of Colorado uncovered that belief in the biblical end-times was a motivating factor behind resistance to curbing climate change.
 
“he fact that such an overwhelming percentage of Republican citizens profess a belief in the Second Coming (76 percent in 2006, according to our sample) suggests that governmental attempts to curb greenhouse emissions would encounter stiff resistance even if every Democrat in the country wanted to curb them,” Barker and Bearce wrote in their study, which will be published in the June issue of Political Science Quarterly.
 
The study, based on data from the 2007 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, uncovered that belief in the “Second Coming” of Jesus reduced the probability of strongly supporting government action on climate change by 12 percent when controlling for a number of demographic and cultural factors. When the effects of party affiliation, political ideology, and media distrust were removed from the analysis, the belief in the “Second Coming” increased this effect by almost 20 percent.

Suddenly, correlation becomes casusation in the name of science.

And apparently it's scientifically proven that 12% of the GOP base can keep Clinton and his Dem congress from passing the The Protocols of the Elders of Kyoto.

KurtNYC (11,997 posts)

8. Isn't reason number 1 money?

As in the fact that oil money runs the world?

Religion is merely the opiate which sedates (parts of ) the populace while the mega rich get mega richer.

deutsey (16,740 posts)

25. In some ways, money seems to have fostered a religion all its own

Complete with its own true-believing free market zealots.

raouldukelives (2,340 posts)

38. Not just any religion either. A one world religion that bears no allegiance to any one country.

But controls all of them.

The Government is my Lord, I lack nothing.
2     He makes other to pay me to lie down in green pastures,
he leads me with a new EBT card,
3     he refreshes my WIC voucher.
He guides me along the right forms to fill out
    for his election’s sake.
4 Even though I wait
    through the longest lines,
I will shall receive unemployment insurance,
    for you are with me;
your rod and your bloated bureaucratic staff,
    they comfort me.
 

5 You prepare a table with my EBT
    in the presence of my enemies who hold wage-earning jobs.
You anoint my head with oil revenue;
    my cup overflows.
6 Surely your interest-free tuition education will follow me
    all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the Section 8 housing of the Lord
    forever.

Scootaloo (5,645 posts)

9. Remember; their primary goal is to hurt other people

That's what conservativism is about, it's simply political-flavored sadism. This is just another example of it.

Skidmore (28,906 posts)

15. It's not just stifling climate change action but

also fomenting political unrest and wars. It is a perniciously evil teaching.

Which is why these xtians need to be ethnically-cleansed from society.

Right?

cprise (5,587 posts)

20. Nihilism justifies ecocide

The ice sheets have not melted with anything like the speed that we are causing now and most species will not have a chance to adapt at this rate.
 
The way you employ the mantra

Nihilism is a godless creed, you illiterate lackwit.

And on goes the hate-fest in the name of Love.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022785432

[BattleHymn]

I see that Snuggle Bunny must have a copy of the Book of Barack.  


Here is more from the Book of Barack, courtesy of Iowahawk:

1 In the beginning Govt created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the economy was formless and void, darkness was over the surface of the ATMs, and the Spirit of Govt was hovering over the land.

3 And Govt said, “Let there be spending,” and there was spending. 4 Govt saw that the spending was good, and that it separated the light from the darkness. 5 Govt called the spending Investments, and this he did in the first day.

6 Then Govt said, “Let there be roads and bridges across the waters, and let dams divide the waters from the waters.” 7 Thus Govt made the infrastructure and the patronage jobs for eternity under the firmament from the Potomac which was above the firmament; and it was so. 8 And Govt called the firmament Washington. This Govt did on the second day.

9 Then Govt said, “Let the regulations and the guidlines under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the Bureaus appear”; and it was so. 10 And Govt called the Bureaus demigovts, and the gathering together of them He called AFSCME. And Govt saw that it was good.

11 Then Govt said, “Let there be police, and firefighters, and teachers according to their kind, for they will create more jobs”; and it was so. 12 And then Govt bade the void bring forth crime, and arson, and stupidity, that each would yield seed to bring forth more police, and firefighters, and teachers, and jobs. And Govt saw that it was good. 13 So the evening and the morning were the third day.

14 On the fourth day Govt said, “Let Us make the economy in Our image, according to Our likeness; let it have dominion over the cars of the road, over the appliances of the supercenters, and over the pet groomers of the strip malls, over all the clickthroughs of Amazon and over every creepy thing of the Dollar Stores.” 15 So Govt created the economy in His own image; services and wholesale and retail He created them. 16 Then Govt blessed them, and Govt said to them, “Be fruitful and use the multiplier effect; fill the land with jobs; thou have dominion over thy realm, within limits, as long and thou remember to get thy permits and tithe thy taxes, for they are good. Hope to see you at the fundraiser.”

17 And on the fifth day Govt made an official Govt holiday, and headed off for a 3-day golf weekend at Camp David. But first Govt said to the economy, "you are free to eat from any tree in the garden, except the tree of Knowledge. There is a serpent in that thing, and thy health care does not cover it."

18 So when Govt was on vay-cay the economy set about the garden, plowing its fields and generating revenue for the glory of Govt. They obeyed the regulations and were not ashamed.

19 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the balanced, publicly-funded birds the Lord Govt had made to sing news to the economy. The serpent was on the AM band. He said to the retail sector, “Did Govt really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’? ”

20 "Only yours, serpent," said the retail sector.

21 “Don't be a wuss,” the serpent said to the retail sector. 22 “For Govt knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will wise to Govt's scam.”

23 When she saw that the fruit was pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, and also free to download, she took some and ate it. She emailed a copy to her wholesaler, and he ate it; and then the wholesaler to the manufacturer, and he to the servicer. 24 Then the eyes of all of them were opened, and they realized they were being taxed naked; so they outsourced fig leaves to make coverings for themselves.

25 Then the economy heard the sound of the Lord Govt returning from vay-cay with the demigovts Osha and Tarp and Irs. It was the cool of the day, and they were hiding their profits from the Lord Govt among the trees of the garden. 26 But the Lord Govt called to the manufacturer, “Where are you?”

26 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid, so I sought a tax shelter.”

27 And Govt said, “Who told you that your profits were yours? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from? ”

28 The man said, “The retailer made me —she has a thing for serpents.”

29 Then the Lord Govt said to the retailer, “What is this you have done?”

30 And she said to the Lord Govt, “Don't take that tone with me, fat boy. And why should I give you my profits?”

31 The Lord Govt was in wrath, and said, “For I am the Lord Govt, creator of Eden! 32 I gave unto you the roads and bridges, and schools and cops, brought unto you of gentle showers of Tarp and Stimulus and rivers of Subsidy, I am the purifier of the waters, cleanser of the air, without which you and your profits would not exist. Thus all that thou have created is created by Us. Thus ye shall render unto Govt what is Govt's, and this is the Word of your Lord.”

33 At these words, Solydra and Gm and Seiu and all the Cronyans and Laborites dropped to their knees in trembling fear and supplicated themselves before the Lord, presenting Him golden gifts of contributions.

34 Then the retailer said to Govt, “And who created you?”

35 In righteous anger did the Lord Govt again rise up and said, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Tri-Delts and the Dekes, I am and have always been! I am the great cosmic turtle on which you and the entire economy rest.”

36 "And on whom do you rest, turtle?" said the retailer in blasheme.

37 "Do not mock me with your knowledge trickery, harlot!" said the Lord Govt. "I am turtles all the way down."

38 So the Lord Govt said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,

“Cursed are you above all livestock
    and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
    and you will eat dust
    all the days of your life.
39 And I will keep you from tenure
    and grants and the airwaves,
    and condemn you to the bowels of internet."

40 Then the Lord Govt turned the retailer and the manufacturer and the wholesaler and all the servicers, and said,

“I will make your taxes and regulations very severe;
    with painful labor you will give birth to profit.
You shall be afflicted with plagues of audits,
    the coming of Osha, and the trials of Irs.
By the sweat of thy brow you will earn thy living
    until you return it to Me.
You will suffer the droughts of subsidy and stimulus,
    and will thirst forever. You're welcome."

41 And so the Lord Govt banished the economy from paradise, and bade them go outsource to the Far East of Eden. And as the chastened economy slouched out of of Babylon He said unto them,

40 "How do you like them apples?"

[thundley4]

DUmmies belief in Global Warming takes more faith and ignoring science than a belief in God does.

[diesel driver]

DUmmies belief in Global Warming takes more faith and ignoring science than a belief in God does.

Yeah, it takes ALGORE!   

[98ZJUSMC]

The study, based on data from the 2007 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, uncovered that belief in the “Second Coming” of Jesus reduced the probability of strongly supporting government action on climate change by 12 percent when controlling for a number of demographic and cultural factors.

[ColonelCarrots]

Well let's look at the condition of the world to end time prophecy.

Political discord: yeah we got that

mayhem: Yes

Immoral sin is rampant: yes

World uniting against Israel and abandoning them: We're getting there. I think it'll come in my generation in my later years after the older people in America die.

We just need the Anti-Christ and we're set.

[JohnnyReb]

Well let's look at the condition of the world to end time prophecy.

We just need the Anti-Christ and we're set.

Using my crystal ball here, I think I see him in a big white house.

[ColonelCarrots]

Using my crystal ball here, I think I see him in a big white house.

Nah he's just a tool. He's paving the way for the Anti-Christ.

[JohnnyReb]

BTW: I like "The New King Obama" government translation of the bible.