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New Republican US House Speaker Champions Fossil Fuels and Denies Climate Concerns
(www.nytimes.com)
this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2023
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The Bible specifically requires that Man be good stewards of the gifts. So they are intentionally ignoring it to reach that selfishness.
Q: What do you call people who don’t follow the Bible?
A: Christians
It seems that American Nationalist Christians in particular are embracing a strangely nihilistic worldview - it appears that a lot of them, and most of the politicians who identify as such - are actively trying to accelerate and exacerbate destructive situations in our societies and the world in general, because they want to get raptured. As in: they’re pushing policies that they know will be wildly destructive and harmful, and the destructiveness is the point.
Christian dominionists. They're absolutely fucking insane... Pence is actually one of them too :/
You’re forgetting that god gave Adam dominion over the beasts or some such bullshit. That really happened. Check the bible.
Don't forget that it comes with the stipulation that Man must be good stewards.