Posted on 08/01/2014 5:54:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
When, in 2012, EPA official Al Almendariz likened his enforcement strategy for federal drilling policies to Romans’ peacekeeping tactics in the Mediterranean — “Crucify them,” he quipped — he was only exhibiting what many already knew: that the Environmental Protection Agency performs its work with an almost religious zeal. But the agency’s latest effort — a massive clampdown on the nation’s coal industry — is receiving actual religious imprimatur. This week 28 religious leaders, representing not only a number of Christian denominations (Presbyterian, Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, Quaker, Baptist, and more) but other faiths (Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, and Bahāʾī), testified in support of proposed regulations on coal power-plant emissions.
David Kepley, elder and deacon at Providence Presbyterian Church, read from Leviticus: “God said, ‘The land is mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants. Throughout the land that you hold, you shall provide for the redemption of the land.’”
“To me this means that to be wasteful of the land’s bounty or to despoil it with substances that are harmful to people or other life forms is not just unproductive but is an affront to God,” his exegesis went. “In my view, the EPA has identified one of those areas where we humans have ignored our role as good stewards of the Creation.”
Meanwhile, Ashley Goff, minister for spiritual formation at the D.C.-area Church of the Pilgrims, part of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), told the Religion News Service that her church does its part caring for the earth and that the EPA’s role, in RNS’s words, “is to regulate and care for the rest of the country.”
Few articles of faith ought to raise doubts like the notion that the EPA operates under divine ordination.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
I’m starting to think its time for a new reformation.
Why would God "put" oil at the bottom of the ocean where it leaks to the surface and spoils the environment for the fish?
Using God's name to justify Marxism is an affront to God.
LOL. I guess we should move the Vatican from Rome to the EPA headquarters and make the EPA Administrator the new Pope.
Well,IF coal was soooo bad for why did God give it to us??
He put these resources here for us to use during the time before His coming and making it all new again,
just as He equipped the animals and plants to survive in the fallen world following Adam’s sin.
The problem with organized "Religions" is that those "in charge" can't resist injecting their own "interpretations". The result is that most are dying off. In this case, I would like to ask how these guys became so enlightened that they presume to speak for GOD?
A refiner's fire would probably be fueled by something that burns hotter than wood, such as coal.
Morons. I guess they figure we can’t read. Sadly, most people DON’T read the Bible and just believe whatever their leaders tell them. There’s few Bereans anymore.
Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
In a time when more people can name the all the characters on Sharknado than can name one book in the Bible, religious leaders are sucking up to greenies.
We have children dying, people starving, churches burning, and a whole other set of problems, and we’re going to waste time speculating if a little black rock is sinful to utilize? Ridiculous. People’s souls are in danger. We haven’t time to be PC and admonish people about something so stupid. Churches need to attend to church business, which includes relieving suffering and saving souls. I don’t know how God feels about coal burning, but I do know that he gave us specific tasks to accomplish. Why not complete the tasks he set for us before arguing about ones he didn’t set for us?
God once burnt 2 cities..
Genisis 1:28 says nothing at all about killing unborn babies...
Abortionists take note...
What does “...be fruitful and multiply...” mean???
It sure as h*ll isn’t a math problem........
Shhhhhh! They may not have thought of that. Don’t go putting thoughts in their heads.
Lenin had a name for them, Useful Idiots.
Like you were saying. The problem with organized religion is the power it affords fallen men: who have always wanted to “be as gods.” They can’t help, as you said, pandering in order to increase their power.
Clear cutting.
Joshua 17 and 18. And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power: thou shalt not have one lot only: But the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong.
These people are dimwits and frauds...and this has what to do with sharing the Gospel?
Still haven’t read where Paul or Peter, et al, preached on the ills of using wood to cook meals in the Bible.
“...I guess they figure we can’t read. Sadly, most people DON’T read the Bible and just believe whatever their leaders tell them. There’s few Bereans anymore.”
I agree. And that’s why so many have no clue what’s in the Bible and are so easily suckered. They’re being spoon fed perdition.
BINGO!
They’re aren’t fooling anybody but themselves.
Psalm 8:3-6
When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?c
5 You have made them a little lower than the angels
and crowned them with glory and honor.
6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
you put everything under their feet:
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