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(58,706 posts)Cassiopeia
(2,603 posts)hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)jalan48
(13,883 posts)dae
(3,396 posts)Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)if they believe in Jebus!
Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)So that they'll be raptured, and would try to facilitate that process if put into a position of power.
Michele Bachman and Mike Huckabee, for instance.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)Add Cruz and Palin to that list too.
They are Domionists, they are delusional and they are deadly serious.
These tea-jhadist, nut-jobs want a fucking end-of-times Theocracy.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,176 posts)Christians look at the glass as half empty.
This is a temporary world. Even though there are beautiful aspects of it, Heaven is MUCH more beautiful. The Earth is only here to strip and pillage because, hey, they already blew it in the Garden of Eden. After God ordered them out and to thus have to create their own crops, wealth, commerce etc...the game changed. And on top of that, they know that its all going to shit anyways, and they are going to get scooped up just in time so they are covered.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
jwirr
(39,215 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)Why do they use the magnificent creation that is the only world given to us like a toilet, not a treasure?
Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)In some minds, as long as a god created the universe, then ultimately, it's on that god to save the world or not.
If your beliefs tell you that the world was created by a god for the dominion of humans, and too many people do see it that way, then that relieves them of responsibility for protecting that world.
We hear it all the time from the right.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)condemnation of whiny layabout giga-putzes
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)If so, and if we Love God, shouldn't we be good stewards of his creation?
Anyway, that's the argument this agnostic uses for bible-thumping "conservatives" who oppose environmental regulations.
raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)tex-wyo-dem
(3,190 posts)Or, from another perspective, there's a reason all the ancient pagan and native religions and spiritual practices considered Earth the Mother...the provider and sustainer of life. So why are we killing our mother?
Modern people can learn a few things from ancient wisdom.
ChiciB1
(15,435 posts)appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)If we married both these cares, it would be a path to turning the world around.
I wonder about my co-workers.... "Who's more important? The Koch Brothers? Or, the back-up free safety to the Pittsburgh Steelers?" Half of them wouldn't know the first, but tell you all about the second, ad-nauseam.
Rex
(65,616 posts)God made this place for us to fuck up...when we die we go to Heaven, so this place doesn't matter. Don't you just love religion?