Trump campaign evangelical adviser raises furor with flu remarks
POLITICO
Public health experts immediately panned the remarks while some other members of the evangelical board distanced themselves from the comments. Read the full story
Not everyone who speaks for God, seems to have communicated with God
Trump campaign evangelical adviser raises furor with flu remarks
POLITICO
Public health experts immediately panned the remarks while some other members of the evangelical board distanced themselves from the comments. Read the full story
Deadstate.org is not a great source, but this seems likely: Hurricanes are caused by homosexuality. http://deadstate.org/and-now-heres-the-evangelicals-blaming-hurricanes-on-the-gays/
Francis has drawn from a wide variety of sources, partly to buttress his arguments, partly to underscore the universality of his message. He regularly cites passages from his two predecessors, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, even as he also draws prominently from his religious ally, Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, leader of the world’s Eastern Orthodox Christians. He also cites a Sufi Muslim mystic, Ali al-Khawas.
Francis begins the encyclical with a hymn written by St. Francis of Assisi, the 13th-century friar who is the patron saint of animals and the environment. Francis cites the Bible’s book of Genesis to underpin his theological argument, though in a passage certain to rankle some Christians, he chastises those who cite Genesis as evidence that man has “dominion” over earth and therefore an unlimited right to its resources. Some believers have used this biblical understanding of “dominion” to justify practices such as mountaintop mining or fishing with gill nets.
Story to be confirmed in June, according to the post.
Fri Apr 26, 2013 at 02:28 PM PDT
The source of this quiz is the father of the student who took it. He will not identify the school until June, after his daughter finishes the school year there, after which she will move to another school. Snopes rates this item as “probably true.
I’m pretty much speechless here. Plus, the test speaks for itself.
For the anti-vaccination crowd: religion based, faith- (whatever that might be) based, and generally mistrusting scientific or governmental authority.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/03/1361929/-Point-Set-Match?detail=email#
So, this isn’t a minister of God, but it still works under the category of “all rules are completely arbitrary”.
Or maybe it’s a plot by Obama.
Why just these? Why not other sinners, such as, for instance, warmongers, hatemongers (but maybe that’s getting a little too close to home), etc?
An organization called The Cornwall Alliance for The Stewardship of Creation recently issued what it calls “An Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming.” Here are someselected quotations from that document:
In 2009, John Shimkus, Republican of Illinois, and a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, argued that climate change is a myth because God told Noah he would never again destroy Earth by flood (Gen 8:21-22). He isseen on video as saying, “The earth will end only when God declares it’s time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood. . . . I do believe God’s word is infallible, unchanging, perfect.”
This is from Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/victor-stenger/rising-antiscience-faith_b_3991677.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
See also the next post, Don’t Let Data get in the Way of Faith