A threat to the Judeo-Christian way of life
Oh, great – religious war against environmentalists. Peter Walker on Facebook:
Dramatic day in Modesto. Speaking to several dozen farmers and ranchers, Ammon Bundy repeated many of the stories about Harney County and the Malheur Refuge that I’ve researched and found incorrect. But he also took a much more overtly religious approach. Federal “tyranny” seemed almost forgotten. Instead, much of his criticism was aimed at environmentalists (including some at length, personally, by name) who he said drive federal policy and represent a threat to the Judeo-Christian way of life. Those who he claims adopt a “Green” religion are a threat to humanity itself. Meanwhile, the environmentalists he mentioned were outside the door chanting and protesting. Overtly framing it as all but a religious war was a new approach and one that seems deeply worrying.
Not a huge crowd; I guess that’s some comfort.
Yeah, right.
Not that new. I’ve been seeing it for years.
WTF is the “Judeo-Christian way of life”? (I mean other than a meaningless flag to rally the bigots under)
Oh poor Steve, don’t you remember those part of the Bible directing people to be cowboys? It’s in Leviticus I think.
There’s the story of Cain and Abel, where God preferred Abel’s animal sacrifices to Cain’s crop-plant offerings. The story continues with Cain being a VERY sore loser and killing Abel.
It’s rather hard to get environmentalism out of the Bible. In the second creation story, God creates Adam to be his gardener for the Garden of Eden. The story could have gotten an environmentalist message if Adam had been a bad gardener, but that’s not what was in the story.
Holms @ 3 – ha!
In fact, most people I know get the opposite. “The Lord gave us dominion over the Earth”. That’s the common phrase, what I’ve heard for the past three decades, at least.
There’s also the ever popular “We can’t mess up God’s creation. If the Earth is warming, it’s because He wants it to warm”. (Capitalization for accuracy of quoting only).
It’s in the Bible but during their “Occupation”, the Bundys never figured it out. Do not shit in your own nest.
Deuteronomy
23:12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:
23:13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:
23:14 For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.
One of the reasons we remember the Dodo, as opposed to so many other extinctions, is that it was witnessed and documented. It had been held as unquestionable that, since all animals were created and endorsed by god in their exact current form, extinction wasn’t possible. Fossils were rationalized away as being bones of existing species (elephants were always a popular option) or just quaint trophies left in the ground.