OK so back in the day, Christians got mad because Darwin showed life evolves, which contradicted the belief that a god created everything in the form it has now.
But why are they butthurt about climate change? To my knowledge the bible doesn’t say anything about that.
I’m beginning to suspect that religion is not such a good thing as they claim.
And it’s not that they want climate change for the apocalypse.
It’s that death cults always think the end times are about to happen. And if their God is going to turn earth into hell and save only them in their own lifetimes, it doesn’t matter what shape the planet is in when that happens.
They know fossil fuels are fucking the environment, but Texas Republicans are in office because of money from the fossil fuels industry, and talking about it hurts their donors profits which hurt donations.
They blatantly said that in the article.
Their issue with teaching about climate change is fossil fuels companies in Texas may make less money
A good number of religious organizations and people in the US want that.
Take my father, a non denominational ex preacher. Practically every day he’s planning for the end of the world and claiming it’ll still happen in his lifetime even though he’s in his 70s.
The rot of religion is not confined to one group here
While I’m sure there are some evangelicals who believe climate change is 100% real but they think it’s also good because it’ll mean Jesus returns sooner…by far very few evangelicals actually are of that mindset, lol.
Most just adopt the Republican narrative that climate change is fake and an excuse to regulate the economy more.
It’s about money, not religion, for 99% of deniers.
I think climate change denial is less of a Christian thing and more of a Republicans don’t want to lose money following EPA restrictions and are thus fighting reality.
Unfortunately, at this point, that’s a distinction without a difference. Christian and Republican have been melding for decades, and now many people who profess Christianity really mean that they’re Republicans.
In addition to the other answers here, let me throw another one out there:
Republicans have been conditioned for decades now to never work with Democrats on anything, to the point that it wouldn’t be inaccurate to diagnose all of them with oppositional-defiance disorder. They don’t need (or want) to know why they are against the things they are; it’s enough to know the people they hate are for those things.
Democrats don’t deny the reality of the changing climate, therefore they must.
If only journalists published more than a short sentence!
/s
Among the reasons the board rejected books: They had too much information about the climate crisis; they were published by companies with environmentally friendly policies; they portrayed fossil fuel use in an insufficiently positive light, potentially harming the state’s economy; and they included teachings about evolution but not creationism.
They’re mad about evolution because of Sky Daddy, they’re mad about climate change because of $
Because money. Texas is a big oil producing state and guess what is a major contributor to climate change? The theory is if you don’t teach kids the correlation they will think oil is good.
Yep. It even points that out in the linked article.
Among the reasons the board rejected books: They had too much information about the climate crisis; they were published by companies with environmentally friendly policies; they portrayed fossil fuel use in an insufficiently positive light, potentially harming the state’s economy; and they included teachings about evolution but not creationism.
There are two reasons: the religious and the capitalist.
The religious reason is that they think there can never be any change. God made the world as is and nothing can ever change. If something changes, it’s because God changed it, not man. So scientists saying that man is changing the climate can’t be right because it would mean that the world is changing and that the change isn’t coming from God.
The capitalist reason is that they have a lot of money tied up in things that would need to change to address climate change. These changes would cost money and wouldn’t increase their profits. They’d rather the earth burn if they got another few billion in profits in the short term than take a short term loss for long term gain.
According to them, God won’t allow things to end for us except on his terms. We couldn’t possibly do it ourselves. And, as was already said, it doesn’t matter to them anyway because they think armageddon is coming any day now.
They’ve been about to start that diet for 2000 years. Jesus says he’s coming back within the lifetime of the people he’s talking to at one point in the Bible. I’m pretty sure that didn’t happen.
They are following the teachings of supply side Jesus, who would never let an environmentalist poison our children’s minds with ideas, but instead with lead, microplastics, and clean coal!
Yeah, Christians exist who say climate change isn’t real because only God can control climate. Christians also exist who believe God said to be a good steward of the Earth and take care of it.
Most of the conservatives who don’t think climate change is real don’t believe that for religious reasons. They overall tend to think that climate change is an overblown concern that’s a trojan horse justification for letting the government regulate more things.
That’s basically it.
They think “scientists promoting climate change studies come largely from elite universities, which by far tend to be very left-leaning, and left leaning folks support more government control over our lives (especially business things), so this is just a conspiracy to justify the government taking more of our money away through taxes and regulations.”
My dad is of the mindset that it’s all gods plan and we just don’t understand it. So you know the standard it’s bad, but it’s gods plan because don’t understand it.
I’m an agnostic Christian and that cop out excuse always pisses me off when I hear it. Like God gave people free will no? And people’s actions demonstrably caused this crisis? So maybe this is man’s mess and god is shaking his head at our inability to clean up after ourselves. But they really just want to ignore the issue while trying to maintain intellectual credibility.
I was raised Christian and I guess you could say I’m hopeful of an afterlife but also acknowledge that I’m a mere mortal and to try and claim absolute knowledge of anything beyond this reality is inherently obtuse and should be avoided. So like I try to love thy neighbour but don’t buy into all the all the mystical stuff 100%
Obviously in the long run, it’s way better also for business to not destroy the environment we depend on.
The problem is that we reward short term gains too much.
OK so back in the day, Christians got mad because Darwin showed life evolves, which contradicted the belief that a god created everything in the form it has now.
But why are they butthurt about climate change? To my knowledge the bible doesn’t say anything about that.
I’m beginning to suspect that religion is not such a good thing as they claim.
If you are looking at this from a religion angle they literally want the end of the world to happen. It’s mostly just greed though.
Well, that’s just the Evangelists…
And it’s not that they want climate change for the apocalypse.
It’s that death cults always think the end times are about to happen. And if their God is going to turn earth into hell and save only them in their own lifetimes, it doesn’t matter what shape the planet is in when that happens.
They know fossil fuels are fucking the environment, but Texas Republicans are in office because of money from the fossil fuels industry, and talking about it hurts their donors profits which hurt donations.
They blatantly said that in the article.
Their issue with teaching about climate change is fossil fuels companies in Texas may make less money
More than the evangelicals want the world to end.
A good number of religious organizations and people in the US want that.
Take my father, a non denominational ex preacher. Practically every day he’s planning for the end of the world and claiming it’ll still happen in his lifetime even though he’s in his 70s.
The rot of religion is not confined to one group here
So basically a death cult!
I mean they worship a dude that was executed.
While I’m sure there are some evangelicals who believe climate change is 100% real but they think it’s also good because it’ll mean Jesus returns sooner…by far very few evangelicals actually are of that mindset, lol.
Most just adopt the Republican narrative that climate change is fake and an excuse to regulate the economy more.
It’s about money, not religion, for 99% of deniers.
I think climate change denial is less of a Christian thing and more of a Republicans don’t want to lose money following EPA restrictions and are thus fighting reality.
Unfortunately, at this point, that’s a distinction without a difference. Christian and Republican have been melding for decades, and now many people who profess Christianity really mean that they’re Republicans.
In addition to the other answers here, let me throw another one out there:
Republicans have been conditioned for decades now to never work with Democrats on anything, to the point that it wouldn’t be inaccurate to diagnose all of them with oppositional-defiance disorder. They don’t need (or want) to know why they are against the things they are; it’s enough to know the people they hate are for those things.
Democrats don’t deny the reality of the changing climate, therefore they must.
If only journalists published more than a short sentence!
/s
They’re mad about evolution because of Sky Daddy, they’re mad about climate change because of $
Because money. Texas is a big oil producing state and guess what is a major contributor to climate change? The theory is if you don’t teach kids the correlation they will think oil is good.
Yep. It even points that out in the linked article.
*emphasis mine.
There are two reasons: the religious and the capitalist.
The religious reason is that they think there can never be any change. God made the world as is and nothing can ever change. If something changes, it’s because God changed it, not man. So scientists saying that man is changing the climate can’t be right because it would mean that the world is changing and that the change isn’t coming from God.
The capitalist reason is that they have a lot of money tied up in things that would need to change to address climate change. These changes would cost money and wouldn’t increase their profits. They’d rather the earth burn if they got another few billion in profits in the short term than take a short term loss for long term gain.
According to them, God won’t allow things to end for us except on his terms. We couldn’t possibly do it ourselves. And, as was already said, it doesn’t matter to them anyway because they think armageddon is coming any day now.
Armageddon is like a healthy diet plan; don’t worry, it’s totally starting next Monday!
They’ve been about to start that diet for 2000 years. Jesus says he’s coming back within the lifetime of the people he’s talking to at one point in the Bible. I’m pretty sure that didn’t happen.
They are following the teachings of supply side Jesus, who would never let an environmentalist poison our children’s minds with ideas, but instead with lead, microplastics, and clean coal!
It’s a money/culture thing, not a religion thing.
Yeah, Christians exist who say climate change isn’t real because only God can control climate. Christians also exist who believe God said to be a good steward of the Earth and take care of it.
Most of the conservatives who don’t think climate change is real don’t believe that for religious reasons. They overall tend to think that climate change is an overblown concern that’s a trojan horse justification for letting the government regulate more things.
That’s basically it.
They think “scientists promoting climate change studies come largely from elite universities, which by far tend to be very left-leaning, and left leaning folks support more government control over our lives (especially business things), so this is just a conspiracy to justify the government taking more of our money away through taxes and regulations.”
In short, they deny reality, because they believe reality is left leaning.
Lol one of them downvoted you 🤣. Is reality CoMmuNiSt now guys?
That’s probably my wording. They don’t just believe reality is left leaning, there is actually evidence for it.
My dad is of the mindset that it’s all gods plan and we just don’t understand it. So you know the standard it’s bad, but it’s gods plan because don’t understand it.
I’m an agnostic Christian and that cop out excuse always pisses me off when I hear it. Like God gave people free will no? And people’s actions demonstrably caused this crisis? So maybe this is man’s mess and god is shaking his head at our inability to clean up after ourselves. But they really just want to ignore the issue while trying to maintain intellectual credibility.
What do you mean by ‘agnostic Christian’ - that would seem to be an oxymoron?
I was raised Christian and I guess you could say I’m hopeful of an afterlife but also acknowledge that I’m a mere mortal and to try and claim absolute knowledge of anything beyond this reality is inherently obtuse and should be avoided. So like I try to love thy neighbour but don’t buy into all the all the mystical stuff 100%
Environmental regulations are bad for business, and businesses pay the politicians who make these decisions.
Obviously in the long run, it’s way better also for business to not destroy the environment we depend on.
The problem is that we reward short term gains too much.