U.S. presidential candidate Rick Santorum takes climate change denial to a Biblical level
By Sahil Kapur
21 February 2012 Climate change denial has become a litmus test for modern Republicans, but Rick Santorum, in his fondness for melding faith and government, has become one of the precious few to cite the Bible as evidence that the science-accepting crowd has it all wrong — and apparently the first to bring that thinking to the presidential stage. “We were put on this Earth as creatures of God to have dominion over the Earth, to use it wisely and steward it wisely, but for our benefit not for the Earth’s benefit,” Santorum told a Colorado crowd earlier this month. He went on to call climate change “an absolute travesty of scientific research that was motivated by those who, in my opinion, saw this as an opportunity to create a panic and a crisis for government to be able to step in and even more greatly control your life.” The surging presidential hopeful fleshed out this argument further this Sunday on CBS Face The Nation, when asked to justify his recent controversial claim that President Obama has a “phony theology” that’s not “based on the Bible.” He said the President sides with “radical environmentalists” who don’t understand what God intended to be the relationship between humans and the planet. “When you have a worldview that elevates the Earth above man and says that we can’t take those resources because we’re going to harm the Earth; by things that frankly are just not scientifically proven, for example, the politicization of the whole global warming debate — this is all an attempt to, you know, to centralize power and to give more power to the government,” Santorum said. And the former Pennsylvania senator doubled down Monday, declaring that, “Unlike the Earth, we’re intelligent, and we can actually manage things.” That explanation doesn’t exactly fly with scientists. “Neither Obama nor any environmentalist thinks man is here to serve the Earth. That is a right-wing fantasy,” Joe Romm, a climate expert at the liberal Center for American Progress, told TPM. […]
Well I would say for starters that Republicans know all about fabricating panic and crises in order to be able to have the govt step in and take greater control. Wow. Iraq War, Patriot Act for starters.
Santorum is genuinely stupid, and may not be evil.
This summer promises heatwaves, drought, crop losses, storms, maybe even a wildfire or two…. and come election time, voters will still be feeling those pains.
Not very prescient.
This is all part of the successful double-reverse logic speak tactics of the GOP. If you are anti-science (as Sanatorium clearly is), you double down by claiming the other side is even more anti-science than you are.
Amazingly, this sells well to the masses. I haven't figured out precisely why this happens –why it works. But it does. Maybe it works because the public is fooled into voting for the lesser evil after being convinced that both sides are anti-science, but one is more so than the other.
It isn't faith the Santorum is expressing, it's absolute idiocy.
This man is a dangerous fool, and dangerously stupid. Can you even comprehend the real threat he would be to humanity if allowed to be President?
His hatred for the truth, for science, for facts is already legendary, he'll go down as the idiot he is.
He doesn't even know his Bible, which clearly states that God will destroy those that destroy the Earth:
"And should destroy those who destroy the earth" (Revelation 11:18).
I cannot believe he's made it this far, but that accounts for the other side of the idiotic coin — the American public.
Only bible-thumping fools who do not know their own Bibles support this moron. They're too ignorant to realize that they are the real terrorists in this country and in the world, and are responsible now for the death of millions of innocents through their bloodlust and Christian domination (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, now Syria, Iran and over a hundred countries before these).
Religious stupidity and ignorance should not be forgiven. This is the very standard used by Christians themselves as they go about judging everyone else against this bogus interpretations, so they should fully understand this.
"Many will come to Him in that day, but He will say, depart from me, ye workers of iniquity, I never knew you."
The problem is Christians are unbelievably ignorant of the Bible and what it actually says they should do. Their notions of dominionism is fatally flawed and has led to incredible suffering and destruction. Few apparently have any real comprehension of what mankind's role was supposed to be.
The notion that we are to take everything, use everything, destroy everything and ignore everything is not biblically supported anywhere.
The New Earth that they claim to await is also misunderstood. It's already under their feet now. But you'd never know it by how they think we should treat the place.
Climate Progress has posted an article on Santorum's idiocy:
Top Biblical Verses That Illustrate Why Rick Santorum is Out of Step With Christianit On Environmental Issues