Some of the most powerful people in the world at the moment (all from the USA) believe in the rapture.
They also reject the need to do something to stop climate change and think it's a good idea to mine previously untouched environments in a destructive fashion.
It seems they don't care a great deal about how the world is left for future generations.
Can this be justified?
2007-03-24 23:49:02 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's worth noting the USA consumes 75% of the world's oil
2007-03-24 23:59:47 · update #1
I'd have thought that ensuring we don't destroy the planet that sustains us would be fairly high on the list of moral imperatives, if not common sense.
The "rapture" nonsense is not only profoundly irrational and vacuous, it is immoral.
2007-03-25 00:16:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well Bro Moo, I don't know why you pick on the USA. But I can understand why. First of all, there is no way that we, (humans) are going stop climate change.
What amazes me about this whole debate is why people can't see the real problem. Over-population. Less people, less resources used. Easy enough. And sooner or later that problem will have to be addressed whether we like it or not.
As far as the "rapture" is concerned I seriously doubt that many people see it coming very soon or that is the reason for doing anything. And it amuses me a lot to see people like Al Gore talk and talk about these things while he lives in a house that is ten times bigger then it needs to be. And that is the same for most of the "global warming" crowd.
2007-03-25 07:04:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your giving a conspiracy theory against Christians based on their beliefs soimilar to me saying does Jewish belief in choseness lead them to eat poor people.
Most of the "destruction" of the planet is by slash and burn farming practices, and fuel emissions in non-Christian countries. China, and India are not Christian countries.
Have you ever read a study where people were poled on if their belief in the rapture causes them to not car about the planet?
BTW there is no scripture like the first guy said.
2007-03-25 06:55:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO! They are, as believers do, interpreting only certain scriptures to mean what they wish to believe in order to rationalize their behavior. They neglect that they are commanded to be good stewards. They ignore that noone can know when that time of so called "2nd Coming" will be.
They accept the rapture myth as taught to them without researching to find that it was invented only about 160 years ago.
They are simply hypocritical, manipulative servers of themselves and mammon.
2007-03-25 07:09:15 · answer #4 · answered by Helen the Hellion 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, it's completely illogical, but so is the rapture nonsense itself, so consider the source.
2007-03-25 07:47:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is scripture that says "God will destroy those who destroy the earth"
2007-03-25 06:52:35 · answer #6 · answered by Wayne 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋