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TomCADem

(17,390 posts)
Sat Dec 8, 2012, 09:18 PM Dec 2012

U.S. Senator Protests Climate Talks With Activist Who Believes The UN Is The Anti-Christ

Source: Think Progress

Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), the lead Republican on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, held a climate-denial press conference at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change on Thursday. Accompanying Inhofe were two rather questionable characters: an activist who believes the UN is starting the apocalypse and a British Lord who was banned from all UN climate conferences for impersonating the representative from Myanmar.

Inhofe’s first guest, Cathie Adams, is the President of the Texas Eagle Forum and former Texas GOP chair. She must have felt quite uncomfortable speaking at a United Nations function, as she has maintained for over a decade that the UN was the anti-Christ’s vehicle for stealthily taking over the world. From a 1999 newsletter:


"The Bible tells us that in the end times there will be a world government headed by a world leader, called the anti-Christ, who will profess a world religion, but did you ever think you would live in the day when these things would come into being? That is exactly what the United Nations is doing behind the backs of most Americans."

Adams has singled out environmentalism as part of the UN’s sinister agenda, suggesting a fictional UN Pledge of Allegiance would require “worshipping the Earth.” She also believes, among other things, that the CO2 emissions do not cause climate change and that vaccination is a plot to steal American freedom.


Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/12/08/1297071/us-senator-protests-climate-talks-with-activist-who-believes-the-un-is-the-anti-christ/



Hmm, so how goes Republican efforts to appeal to the mainstream? Lets see, they are still holding middle class tax cuts hostage and now they are relying on religious zealots as experts on climate science.
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U.S. Senator Protests Climate Talks With Activist Who Believes The UN Is The Anti-Christ (Original Post) TomCADem Dec 2012 OP
This is the type of person we need to go after politicasista Dec 2012 #1
I'd be up for that! nt patrice Dec 2012 #3
Bingo n/t politicasista Dec 2012 #6
Me, too! freshwest Dec 2012 #13
IMHO, there's plenty of evidence that what calls itself "Christianity" is the anti-Christ. nt patrice Dec 2012 #2
I fervently agree with you, patrice... ReRe Dec 2012 #7
And I agree with you. patrice Dec 2012 #8
Their rapture theology is a lot like this: freshwest Dec 2012 #14
"Get-out-of-Hell-Free" card... ReRe Dec 2012 #16
Some people probably think that "off planet" stuff is just kidding. It's NOT. nt patrice Dec 2012 #23
Bingo Berlum Dec 2012 #20
The Eagle Forum. longship Dec 2012 #4
She was so foul during the ERA campaign, it was the first time I heard my FDR-loving aunt go off. freshwest Dec 2012 #24
What's wrong with worshipping the earth? rightsideout Dec 2012 #5
So seeking a global solution to a global problem makes the UN the Anti-Christ. pampango Dec 2012 #9
Cuckoo for cocoa puffs. Quantess Dec 2012 #10
Isn't the UN/Anti-Christ thing one of the aspects of the "Left Behind" series? OmahaBlueDog Dec 2012 #11
Perhaps it's Capitalism that's the Anti-Christ hypergrove Dec 2012 #12
Oh... Everyone gets to be the anti-christ defacto7 Dec 2012 #15
POE = Peace On Earth or Purity Of Essence Rain Mcloud Dec 2012 #17
Might have known that Loony Lord Monckton would be involved in this somewhere LeftishBrit Dec 2012 #18
Republicans embaraASS America on the world stage Berlum Dec 2012 #19
His God John2 Dec 2012 #22
moron embarrassment.....nt Evasporque Dec 2012 #21

ReRe

(10,597 posts)
7. I fervently agree with you, patrice...
Sat Dec 8, 2012, 10:24 PM
Dec 2012

... only that it is not ALL of Christianity. It's the right wing religious fundamentalists, the "evangelicals", the ones who wear their religion on their sleeves. The ones who REALLY want to control the world, and cram their religion down everyone's throats. They want the end of the world to come. They're zealots. And totally crazy. If we deny environmentalism, take the earth for granted, the end of the world will come.

They live in a religious fantasy world all of their own. It's a religion gone too far, gone amuck.
They are the creationists. They don't believe in effing SCIENCE!!!!

They came to the fore in our government with Ronald Reagan. And I believe it's been their goal all along to obtain control of our country, and in the end, the world. This is their last grasp.


patrice

(47,992 posts)
8. And I agree with you.
Sat Dec 8, 2012, 10:39 PM
Dec 2012

I am a Liberal Christian myself, because I don't think the universality of truth is threatened by whatever labels we put on it.

Love really IS the answer.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
14. Their rapture theology is a lot like this:
Sun Dec 9, 2012, 04:11 AM
Dec 2012


Note, the card can be kept until needed or sold. In other words, they won't have to pay for their crimes, not now, not ever. And that they get it out of the Community Chest.

They expect to buy their way off planet to escape the devastation that they are causing. They are the most irresponsible people the world has ever known. That's why they make up so many lies about other people, to divert attention.

I also call how they wear their faux faith on their sleeves their Get Out of Hell Free card.

ReRe

(10,597 posts)
16. "Get-out-of-Hell-Free" card...
Sun Dec 9, 2012, 04:28 AM
Dec 2012

...it's funny, but then it's not. Yeah, they think they can buy their way out of anything. But that card is going to burn up, where they are going to after life. I always told my Mom: "Ha, won't they be surprised when they don't show up at the Pearly Gates?"

longship

(40,416 posts)
4. The Eagle Forum.
Sat Dec 8, 2012, 09:40 PM
Dec 2012

Started by this person:


That's right. That's Phyllis Schlafly, the woman (a lawyer, no less) who made the case against the Equal Rights Amendment by claiming that women an men would have to -- Horrors! -- share bathrooms.

Yes. She's still alive and she is still spewing her religious right rubbish.

How such a horrible person even has a voice in this country is astounding to me.

Fuck them all!

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
24. She was so foul during the ERA campaign, it was the first time I heard my FDR-loving aunt go off.
Sun Dec 9, 2012, 03:39 PM
Dec 2012

She was 70 and made plain her hatred of what Schafly was doing with some of the saltiest language I'd ever heard before or since. And I am quite knowledgeable about that stuff, LOL.

rightsideout

(978 posts)
5. What's wrong with worshipping the earth?
Sat Dec 8, 2012, 09:51 PM
Dec 2012

It's the only earth we have. God would want us to respect his creation and take care of it.

I don't get these loons who have something against environmentalism and continue to deny climate change.



pampango

(24,692 posts)
9. So seeking a global solution to a global problem makes the UN the Anti-Christ.
Sat Dec 8, 2012, 10:48 PM
Dec 2012

It's bad enough that someone spews such nonsense. She can't possibly believe what she's saying can she? I assume she is just pandering to the gullible in the base.

OmahaBlueDog

(10,000 posts)
11. Isn't the UN/Anti-Christ thing one of the aspects of the "Left Behind" series?
Sat Dec 8, 2012, 11:26 PM
Dec 2012

Remember when Bill Clinton was the anti-Christ? Now some members of the GOP greet him like a long, lost buddy.

 

hypergrove

(23 posts)
12. Perhaps it's Capitalism that's the Anti-Christ
Sun Dec 9, 2012, 12:09 AM
Dec 2012

I see as much if not more evidence for Capitalism being the AntiChrist as there is for Christianity, that is "Organized Religion", being one of the evil incarnates we were warned about. Ultimately though it's systemic and personal Corruption at the root of evil that we fight with Laws & Regulations. Money & Corruption are the common denominators though. Just how effectively stereotypic Christians & others on the Right cognitively deal with these facts is a cultural shaming to humanists like me.

 

Rain Mcloud

(812 posts)
17. POE = Peace On Earth or Purity Of Essence
Sun Dec 9, 2012, 04:58 AM
Dec 2012

We must protect our bodily fluids from the liberal menace of Fluoridation.
The moon landings were filmed on a sound stage in South Carolina using puppets and 8mm film.
Anita Bryant is God's holy vessel.
Support your local vigilante!
That is all!

LeftishBrit

(41,209 posts)
18. Might have known that Loony Lord Monckton would be involved in this somewhere
Sun Dec 9, 2012, 05:41 AM
Dec 2012

As I said in a post some time ago:

'Lord Monckton, one of the last politically active hereditary peers, and a former advisor to Maggie Thatcher is perhaps the best example (of a nutty UKIP-er). He is best known for climate change denialism, but also is generally a 'British teabagger' type, who actually has addressed Tea Party meetings in America, and has said of his aims for British politics: "leave the European Union, close down 90 per cent of government services and shift power away from the atheistic, humanistic government and into the hands of families and individuals". He is also a quack, who claims on the UKIP website to have developed a broad-spectrum cure for infectious diseases, including 'Graves’ Disease, multiple sclerosis, influenza, and herpes simplex VI'.

He also once said that the 2009 UN conference on climate change would bring us a Communist world government!'

Inhofe sounds just as nuts.


Berlum

(7,044 posts)
19. Republicans embaraASS America on the world stage
Sun Dec 9, 2012, 07:48 AM
Dec 2012

As usual. Republicans in service to their 1% Big Oil puppetmasters, crapping on America and the rest of the planet.

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