Is there such a thing, as too low for Right-wing deniers?

Question

when it comes to trying to pass their denial off on the rest of us?

I was at a funeral today, and the Preacher somehow managed to bring his denial of global warming based on the fact that media claimed we were headed for another ice age in the 70s, into his sermon, at the FUNERAL PARLOR!
how sick is that??!!

absolutely nothing ~*Marie*~, absolutely nothing.
Luckily for him, I have much respect for my family, and didn't slap the mic out of his hand. the eulogy ended up being more preaching about the Bible, than speaking anything about the deceased.

sure, vladoviking, everyone goes around recording funerals.

What did he say? He was mentioning how God takes care of thing, and then said " you hear people talk about this thing called global warming that scientists are warning about, but i don't think anyone of us can forget about them also saying a couple decades ago that we were headed for an ice age....."

Ben O, warnign people about "being too trusting of the latest fashion in scientific thinking", has no place in the eulogy of the deceased, at a funeral.

no jello, that isn't what I am saying, but in the sense that it was, it was a politicial view rather than something that belonged in a eulogy at a funeral.

Answer 1

I'll agree that bringing up "Global Warming" at a funeral is pretty far out of line. I can't see how anyone could possibly tie "Global Warming" to someone's memorial service.
That said, it's very easy to question "Global Warming". All you have to do is look at the history of this planet.
The fact is, the Earth's climate has never been static. There have been warming and cooling trends through out it's history. 18,000 years ago there was a glacier called the "Laurentide Ice Sheet" almost 2 1/2 miles thick covering most of North America. Most of it melted away about 14,000 years ago. When it did, it left most of America's northern lakes, including the Great Lakes.
The question is, WHY did the Glaciers melt? There were few people. There was no industry. No Cars, no SUVs. None of the things we blame for "Global Warming". Yet, huge glaciers that covered hundreds of thousands of square miles receeded to almost nothing.
Again, the question is, WHY? Obviously, the climate must have gotten warmer in order for this to happen. And since there wasn't any way for people to cause it, it must have happened naturally, right? This isn't complicated stuff. It's common sense.
Yet, there are people who would have you believe that all you have to do is listen to them, and the world can be saved. All you have to do is let them decide what you can drive, what you can eat, what you can drink, how you should live and what you should think, and everything will be just fine! Of course, they are more intersted in controlling how you live than they are concerned about the climate.
Personally, I'm all for a cleaner enviroment. Clean water and clean air is good for everybody. BUT, believing the hype about "Global Warming" isn't going to solve any problems. All you are doing is surrendering more of your freedoms.
This planet is much less polluted than it was in the 70s when I was in school. You know? Back when the same doomsayers were claiming that we were entering another ice age and the world was going to come to an end! (See "apocalypse then" below.) 30 years from now, it will be cleaner than it is today. Technology improves and people's attitudes change. That's just the way it works. When I was a kid, it was not unusual to see people throw trash out of their cars driving down the highway. You rarely see that happen now. Things are getting better, just as they always have.
By the way, there is plenty of science against the idea of "Man-Made Global Warming" out there, if you bother to look for it. But, you'll never hear about it in the "Main Stream" media, because it doesn't fit their political agenda.

Answer 2

What exactly did he say?

It's easy to say, I saw a global warming denier doing something dispicable, but if we didn't hear it for ourselves we are just commenting on your interpretation of the situation. Perhaps he was trying to caution people about being too trusting of the latest fashion in scientific thinking.

In his defense, it is easy for people who are old enough to remember the ice age retoric of the 1970's to have a sense of having heard it all before. Back then we believed it implicitly because it came from scientists (I mean if you can't trust scientists who can you trust?) there were no voices of scepticism then. Nobody had thought about ozone depleting substances or CO2 back then, but we we were assured by the media that atmospheric and water pollution was destroying the earth.

Maybe in 20 years time when scientific thinking has moved on to something different, you will view the sky is falling retoric a little more sceptically, then again you might not.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

The answer is no--there isn't a low point, apparently.

BTW--jsut to cllarify what you said--the media may have claimed there was another Ice Age coming inthe 1970s--but scientists did not--it was merely one of several hypotheses they were studying.

Also--keep in mind that such preachers are not "Christians," properly speaking--they are cult leaders. This one's disgusting behavior is a good example of why I say that. Please don't confuse frauds like that with the majority of mainstream Christians--we do not have anythingto do whith the extremists on the right.

Answer 5

This is just my opinion, but what in the world does this have to do with his thoughts on the life and persona of the person he was delivering the eulogy for??

Answer 6

I think you just got a snapshot of how these people normally operate, except that their "faithful flock" gets a serve of it every Sunday, every festival, every marriage, every baptism, every communion, every Eucharist.

That is what has made these people so politically powerful. No sense of guilt. Absolute certainty. No respect for the beliefs and opinions of others. No occasion taboo. Captive audiences.

Answer 7

That's low. I thought it was low when a person said to me the greenhouse effect wasn't real, the very thing that keeps this palent from freezing. But that is low.

Answer 8

Well me being a pagan in a one goder world I could bust out on that but your evidence is basically here-say unless you have made at least an audio recording of the event.

Answer 9

Right wing? Are you saying that global warming is nothing more than a political argument?

Answer 10

there is a time and place for everything-that was not the place.