Massive, Fatal Flooding Makes TX, WV Residents More Skeptical Of Climate, More Certain Of Rapture

[hatrack]

And here is why this country is fucking doomed.

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The isolated band of thunderstorms on the day of the White Sulphur Springs flood, which drenched the town with wave after wave of downpours, ultimately dropped a record-breaking 9 inches of rain, twice as much as the previous record rainfall in 1890. According to Dr. Kevin Law, West Virginia's climatologist, it was definitely one of the worst storms in the state's history.

The other narrative turns to a single book filled with parables of good versus evil and drama far more compelling than what the IPCC reports offer. The Bible explains tragedy and human suffering and redemption as being part of God's plan, giving meaning to natural disasters. "I'm a firm believer that God tells us in the Bible that he will warn us through signs in the sky," Kathy told me when I visited her earlier this fall. "It's fitting in with the Book of Revelation. With the earthquakes and the devastation happening around the world, it's a wake-up call."

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Chad Dingess, the pastor of the fast-growing evangelical Bethesda Church, said something similar. He could speak of the end of the world, but it was not his place to consider climate change. "I don't feel like I have enough knowledge to speak on that," Dingess told me early one Sunday morning, before stepping on stage to preach three sermons that would reach one thousand people by noon. He said he has "no clue" if humans have had an impact on climate change.

"The scriptures say very clearly: in the last days, there would be earthquakes and hurricanes. And what the scripture really says is that it will happen more frequently. And I think that's some of what we're seeing," he said. "I don't think it's anything we need to be afraid of. It's pointing to the return of Christ." When the waves of thunderstorms drenched White Sulphur, believers and non-believers alike were unified in horror that the flood came so fast. Together as a town, they still suffer jitters each time a hard rain falls. But the deeply religious had a broader context that transferred this confusing data into clear "signs." From Matthew 24 to the Book of Revelation, they were primed for apocalypse.

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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19102017/christianity-evangelical-climate-change-flooding-west-virginia

[Angry Dragon]

1. just leave it in gods' hands........they know best

[ExciteBike66]

2. I for one support the Rapture-ing of any of these people... nt

[enough]

3. There may well come a point where climate change brings about the end of days,

which will certainly be a rapture for them, having been so right all along.

[hatrack]

4. Yes, but without Heavenly Hosts, sulfurous pits and rainbow-farting dinosaurs . . .

. . . how would these buffoons know?

In the end, it'll likely be more like Death Valley, except with more trash and tree stumps.