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Jesus as environmental suicide

🔗Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@...>

6/21/2003 6:55:40 AM

> In his book "The Carbon
> Wars," Greenpeace activist Jeremy Leggett tells how
> he stumbled upon this
> otherworldly agenda. During the Kyoto climate change
> negotiations, Leggett candidly
> asked Ford Motor Company executive John Schiller how
> opponents of the pact
> could believe there is no problem with "a world of a
> billion cars intent on
> burning all the oil and gas available on the
> planet?" The executive asserted first
> that scientists get it wrong when they say fossil
> fuels have been sequestered
> underground for eons. The Earth, he said, is just
> 10,000, not 4.5 billion years
> old, the age widely accepted by scientists. Then
> Schiller confidently
> declared, "You know, the more I look, the more it is
> just as it says in the Bible."
> The Book of Daniel, he told Leggett, predicts that
> increased earthly
> devastation will mark the "End Time" and return of
> Christ. Paradoxically, Leggett notes,
> many fundamentalists see dying coral reefs, melting
> ice caps and other
> environmental destruction not as an urgent call to
> action, but as God's will. In the
> religious right worldview, the wreck of the Earth
> can be seen as Good News!
-- -Kraig Grady
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