No reason to worry about climate change.

[Dunc]

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[Endlessmike56]

1. I kinda remember a story from the bible.

Something about a a big rainstorm and a huge boat with pairs of animals on it. From what I remember it wiped out all life on earth except for the occupants of the huge boat.

[JT45242]

2. Amazing how virtually every civilization has a similar flood myth

Different parts of the world trying to explain some cataclysmic flood.

Apparently, she missed the stuff about six chapters before that that says mankind should nurture/shephard/take care if the land.

She probably favors the deliberate mistranslation of have dominion over the land.

The real philosophy behind every world religion (not the twisted self aggrandizing Christian nationalist neonazi tripe she spouts) is that mankind has been entrusted to care for creation.

These charlatans make me sick

[Wounded Bear]

20. Virtually every major civilization started in a river valley/flood plain...

Primary need of any civilization to grow into something historically memorable is a reliable source of water.

Rivers flood. Therefore almost all civilizations had flood myths in their culture.

[dedl67]

23. At the end of the Pleistocene there were massive floods in many parts of the world

As ice melted, large volumes of water that had been trapped behind ice dams suddenly broke through, causing floods that would have remained in the collective memory of humans. In North America, the Mississippi and Columbia, among other rivers, suffered such floods. The Black Sea would have also filled with water at the time (from what I recall reading).

[multigraincracker]

3. She went long on large boat builders.

[dedl67]

15. Then, "God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water. The fire next time."

Maybe global warming is being hinted at.

[Martin Eden]

4. There's no need to worry about the proliferation of nuclear weapons

The bible doesn't mention them. It's not the way this ends.

But these fundie Xians are indeed looking forward to the end, shaping US policy to hasten it by trying to fulfill some ancient prophecy that involves Israel.

They have no love for Jews, but they do love the idea that they will ascend to heaven while those of us who reject their narrow minded cruel cult are "Left Behind."

[markodochartaigh]

5. Cars aren't in the Bible either.

Does she ride a camel to work?

[70sEraVet]

9. The 'Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse' are her Uber ride.

[Dunc]

21. Exactly friend

[markodochartaigh]

30. That's a really good one!

n/t

[70sEraVet]

33. Thanks! Usually I'm the only one who thinks my jokes are funny.

[JHB]

12. Whether she uses an animal or vehicle, there's definitely an ass making the trip.

[Delphinus]

6. I just can't ...

[OldBaldy1701E]

7. And again, why didn't every single person in that chamber start laughing and pointing?

That is the only way to deal with someone that deluded.

[HarryM]

8. How are these brainwashed twits

Even elected? The people voting for them must have a collective IQ of pond scum!

[JHB]

10. If she's read her Good Book, then she knows she's cherry-picking

After all, there's stuff in there about the proper role of women, and it ain't in government.

But I don't expect Rep. Franson to honor the strictness of her own beliefs and resign.

[dedl67]

11. Kevin Philips, in "American Theocracy" (2005) has a good analysis

“Never before has a U. S. political coalition been so dominated by an army of outsider religious denominations caught up in biblical mortality, distrust of science, and global imperative of political and religious evangelism. These groups may represent only a quarter to a third of the U. S. population, but they are mobilized, as the 2004 turnout showed.”

“American Theocracy” Kevin Philips 2005

See also Morris Berman "Dark Ages America" (2006)

They saw it coming.

[markodochartaigh]

31. Unfortunately

that quarter to third of the electorate is enough to win because another third is too ignorant and apathetic to vote. That, plus gerrymandering, disenfranchisement, and other tools of voter suppression allow the Republicans to win enough power to control the government nationally and in many states.

[rickford66]

13. Help me out here. Where are Trans people addressed in the Bible ?

[modrepub]

14. I'd Be Happy If They Just Let Well Alone

and let the adults try and do something about this. Paying to not installing renewables is deplorable and against everything the party of "free markets" stands for.

That said the fight to ease the climate crisis has to start at the grassroots level. Support the scientists and companies who take this problem seriously. Support local efficiency initiatives and do some yourself. If you're stuck in a traffic jam, don't think that removing one car wouldn't matter. We need to act collectively to solve this problem and stop relying on politicians to do the heavy lifting for us.

[Solly Mack]

16. Blech

[Tbear]

17. I thought I read that God destroyed the world by water, and the next time by fire.

If true, we can now choose between the slow burn of climate change or the instant fire of nuclear annihilation.
Even though neither are mentioned specifically in the bible…the apocalyptic literature is limited to the “visions” of first and second century AD authors.
Point: they may well be right about earth’s destruction by fire but they wouldn’t be able to specifically “see” cars and rockets and nuclear warheads.
A better point: be extremely wary of those that tell you “what the bible says “

[Buddyzbuddy]

18. As I see it, the problem isn't freedom of religion

so much as the morons that voted her into her position. You evidently don't have enough people that think for themselves with better information.

Sure, we need to be tolerant of each other, but we do need to call out the idiocy when it's displayed in our leadership. Otherwise, we end up with what we have now.

Thank you Dunc, for doing just that.

[JoseBalow]

19. Grown adults believing in magic

SMDH

[twodogsbarking]

24. Minds work best when open. Good on you. Have a wonderful day.

[JoseBalow]

27. Abracadabra! We're smarter!

[GiqueCee]

22. The magical thinking of imbeciles...

... does absolutely nothing to further the betterment of society. And the Bible has been rewritten and "interpreted" so many times that its original authors wouldn't recognize a word of it if it was translated back into Aramaic.
Franson is so full of shit her eyes are turning brown. How do such simple-minded skidmarks get elected to positions they haven't the intellectual capacity to perform?

[IronLionZion]

25. The Old Testament is full of smiting and wrath and mass destruction

Noah's flood supposedly killed everyone

[talking-liberally]

26. She's been married and divorced twice. Jesus said

"I tell you that anyone who divorces...and marries another commits adultery". Matthew 19:3-9

Convenient, which parts of the Bible she chooses.

I happened to be reading this in John Fugelsang's book: "Seperation of Church and Hate" "A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalits, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds

[The Madcap]

28. I'm not worried about climate change either...

T**** and the Republicans will have destroyed humanity before it becomes super critical.

Thanks, R's, for your non-attention to this matter....

[Vogon_Glory]

29. For the curiosity and edification of the reality-based community

The southwestern US hosts dozens of pre-Columbian ruins abandoned because of shifting weather patterns causing drought. Far more recently, the Dustbowl devastated hundreds of farms across the southern Great Plains when shifting weather patterns caused acres and acres of farm land to lose their top-soil and become wind-blown ruin.

Climate change, natural and human-influenced, is a very real thing and governments seeking to look after the benefit of their citizenry, have no gain letting clueless sectarians waving their holy books and setting policy.

[Eko]

32. This is why we can't have nice things.