Conspiracy Theory
I mentioned last night that I had a conversation with one of my favorite liberals, Howro, last night. One of the things that he mentioned was this speech by Bill Moyers, a distinguished "environmental journalist" who received Harvard Medical School's Global Environment First Citizen Award on the sixth of December.
Apparently, Mr. Moyers has spoken with and traced the history of a number of individuals who claim to be attempting to speed the return of Christ. How are they doing that? They're doing it by making it national policy to destroy the environment as quickly as they possibly can, and by relentlessly supporting Israel. He claims that the "religious right" (which he no associates with the Heaven's Gate Cult and the Flat Earth Society) is trying to speed up the second coming by raping the earth, pillaging all of its natural resources, and igniting a holy war in the Middle East.
I don't detect this directly from the speech, but Howro also noted an implication that the flipside of all of this was that anyone who believed in the concept of limited global resources, or protecting the environment, or stopping so-called climate change, is being misled and following the spirit of evil.
Are you friggin' kidding me? Everything he says in his speech is ridiculous. I'm sure that there are religious fundamentalist zealots out there who believe all of this drivel he's claiming, but I guarantee you that they're the minority. He resorts to uncited "news" that he implies to be objective (but doesn't directly cite), he makes emotional arguments, he falls just short of actually saying that his opposition are a bunch of ostriches with their heads in the sand.
Gentle reader, this is the face of the liberal opposition. The common sense conservatives are making such an impact on American politics and society that people like this Bill Moyers character have no recourse but to blame everything on religion; because, after all, the Roman Catholic Church repressed and stifled Galileo four or five hundred years ago, so Christians must not care about real science, right?
Read my lips: religion and conservatism are not the enemies of America and the world. Pseudo-science, irresponsible policy-making, revisionist history, and militant Islam are.
Apparently, Mr. Moyers has spoken with and traced the history of a number of individuals who claim to be attempting to speed the return of Christ. How are they doing that? They're doing it by making it national policy to destroy the environment as quickly as they possibly can, and by relentlessly supporting Israel. He claims that the "religious right" (which he no associates with the Heaven's Gate Cult and the Flat Earth Society) is trying to speed up the second coming by raping the earth, pillaging all of its natural resources, and igniting a holy war in the Middle East.
I don't detect this directly from the speech, but Howro also noted an implication that the flipside of all of this was that anyone who believed in the concept of limited global resources, or protecting the environment, or stopping so-called climate change, is being misled and following the spirit of evil.
Are you friggin' kidding me? Everything he says in his speech is ridiculous. I'm sure that there are religious fundamentalist zealots out there who believe all of this drivel he's claiming, but I guarantee you that they're the minority. He resorts to uncited "news" that he implies to be objective (but doesn't directly cite), he makes emotional arguments, he falls just short of actually saying that his opposition are a bunch of ostriches with their heads in the sand.
Gentle reader, this is the face of the liberal opposition. The common sense conservatives are making such an impact on American politics and society that people like this Bill Moyers character have no recourse but to blame everything on religion; because, after all, the Roman Catholic Church repressed and stifled Galileo four or five hundred years ago, so Christians must not care about real science, right?
Read my lips: religion and conservatism are not the enemies of America and the world. Pseudo-science, irresponsible policy-making, revisionist history, and militant Islam are.
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