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.
Inhofes 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-Christs 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 UNs 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.
politicasista
(14,128 posts)rather than making our own the enemy.
patrice
(47,992 posts)politicasista
(14,128 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)ReRe
(10,597 posts)... 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)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)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)...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?"
patrice
(47,992 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)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)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)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)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.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)And dangerous.
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)Remember when Bill Clinton was the anti-Christ? Now some members of the GOP greet him like a long, lost buddy.
hypergrove
(23 posts)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.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)for a good 15 minutes or so. We all get a turn.
Rain Mcloud
(812 posts)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)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)As usual. Republicans in service to their 1% Big Oil puppetmasters, crapping on America and the rest of the planet.
is Corporate Interests.