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Christianity

GOP: No Climate Change because, Bible

Juan Cole 12/05/2013

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Opposing views points to the scary ignorance and bible-thumping to which GOP representatives in Congress are appealing in their genocidal stand against quick action on climate change.

If you have to have a biblical theology about these things, it should be the old-fashioned one that human beings are stewards of the earth and have a duty to make it flourish, not to turn it into a desolate wasteland. Leviticus 25:23-24, for instance, has “The land is mine and you are but aliens and my tenants. Throughout the country that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption of the land.”

In contrast to irresponsible reactionaries like James Inhofe (who is in the back pocket of Mammon– I mean, Big Oil), some churches are doing the right thing and putting up solar panels on their roofs

Climate Desk did a mash-up of this bad theology and bad environment thinking:

See also this discussion at Young Turks

Filed Under: Christianity, Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Featured, Republican Party, Uncategorized

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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