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Ted Turner: Is God speaking in Gulf Coast spill?
CNN ^ | May 17th, 2010

Posted on 05/18/2010 7:56:03 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo

Sometimes referred to as “The Mouth of the South,” the CNN founder lashed out against religious believers in the past. He once dubbed Christianity a “religion for losers” and wondered aloud whether the Ash Wednesday observers around him at work were “Jesus freaks.” His marriage to Jane Fonda was rumored to become strained when she started finding religion.

And while his stance has certainly mellowed with the years - he apologized for his past comments and joined with churches in 2008 to fight malaria - his suggestion that God may have had a hand in the oil disaster that killed 11 and is threatening the Gulf Coast may take some by surprise.

“Could be,” God’s work, he told CNN’s Poppy Harlow. “He’s sending us a message.”

“I’m not a real religious person, but I’m somewhat religious. And I’m just wondering if God is telling us he doesn’t want us to drill offshore,” he said. “And right before that we had that coal mine disaster in West Virginia where we lost 29 miners,” as well as repeated mining disasters – “seems like there’s one over there every week” – in China.

“Maybe the Lord’s tired of having the mountains of West Virginia, the tops knocked off of them so they can get more coal. I think maybe we ought to just leave the coal in the ground and go with solar and wind power and geo-thermals where it’s applicable.”

Calling the United States “the biggest polluter and the biggest energy user in the world,” Turner said the country needs to take the lead in ridding itself of coal and oil dependence.

(Excerpt) Read more at religion.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: anticatholic; doublestandard; gaia; godgap; greenieweenie; liberalbigot; milliondollarmarxist; oilspill; religiousleft; starkravingsocialist; tedturner; turner
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To: Mr. Mojo

Maybe Ted hears God telling us to dump the ‘rats in November.


41 posted on 05/18/2010 10:36:02 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: Mr. Mojo

“I’m not a real religious person, but I’m somewhat religious.” - 2010

“Christianity is a religion for losers” -1990


42 posted on 05/18/2010 10:37:49 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: paul51
Ted Turner pushes the god of Gaia.


43 posted on 05/18/2010 10:39:54 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: Chi-townChief

Ted needs to pay attention. God’s followers have tuned out CNN.


44 posted on 05/18/2010 10:40:22 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Ted be careful...I would hate to be u.


45 posted on 05/18/2010 10:42:32 AM PDT by JFC
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To: Mr. Mojo

“...And I’m just wondering if God is telling us he doesn’t want us to drill offshore,” he said...”

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It’s just the other way around — He blessed us with fantastic natural resources and we tell Him we don’t want them.


46 posted on 05/18/2010 10:48:30 AM PDT by 353FMG (ISLAM -- America's road to destruction.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

I think God cursed Atlanta by sending a Ted Turner.


47 posted on 05/18/2010 10:49:15 AM PDT by mbynack (Retired USAF SMSgt)
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To: Mr. Mojo
If the Gulf parted to allow the oil to flow through, then yes.

Otherwise, not.

48 posted on 05/18/2010 10:50:45 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Obi-Wan Palin: Strike her down and she shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

I’m not religious, but I’m religious.

Sharp, Ted. Sharp.


49 posted on 05/18/2010 11:02:40 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Mr. Mojo
How many offshore oil rigs are there? Thousands?
If God wanted us not to drill offshore, you would think He would have said something before now.
50 posted on 05/18/2010 11:12:17 AM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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To: Mr. Mojo
Well, since you brought it up, Ted, I guess you could say that God has rendered his judgment on CNN, AOL and the rest of the mainstream liberal media clowns at Time Warner, or whatever they're calling that zoo these days. You can tell by their profits ... er ... continuing losses.
51 posted on 05/18/2010 11:28:49 AM PDT by Mobties
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To: Mr. Mojo

[God is telling us...]

What’s the matter Ted, did your doctor give you a really bad prognosis?

(There are no atheist’s in a foxhole)


52 posted on 05/18/2010 11:56:30 AM PDT by RetSignman (Tea Parties ..."We have seen the Patriots and they are us")
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To: Mr. Mojo
Related thread...really:

12 ways to cash in on the 'collapse of Eaarth'

53 posted on 05/18/2010 12:18:55 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Maybe God is using CNN to tell him he should’ve never got into the news business.


54 posted on 05/18/2010 12:22:15 PM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Ted Turner,you don’t understand God because you don’t spend enough time with him.

Please inform yourself how you can get in touch.You probably still won’t understand(who does?) anyway but at least you won’t sound so lost.


55 posted on 05/18/2010 12:24:17 PM PDT by Del Rapier
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To: Mr. Mojo
Calling the United States “the biggest polluter and the biggest energy user in the world,” Turner said the country needs to take the lead in ridding itself of coal and oil dependence.

Well, I don't know how we got the title for 'biggest polluter'. While you're flying around, Ted, go to China, visit the Russian oilfields, and then get back to us on all that. Just one condition. Wean yourself of all those nasty hydrocarbons and coal-generated power before you leave.

56 posted on 05/18/2010 12:32:50 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

He’s just ticked off because he thought he saw an image of Jesus in the oil spill and he can’t sell it on eBay.


57 posted on 05/18/2010 12:37:42 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Gamecock; Dr. Eckleburg; Alex Murphy; Quix
Just who does Ted Turner think he is, Pat Robertson??

LOL!!! That comment had to be saved-er, I mean that in a non-spiritual sense. ;O)

58 posted on 05/18/2010 4:32:00 PM PDT by HarleyD
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To: HarleyD

ATHEIST-HOSTILE-TO-CHRISTIANS-TO-THE-MAX—THAT TED TURNER???

One of the globalist Chief Jerks?


59 posted on 05/18/2010 7:50:18 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: HarleyD

What a stinking pile of deception

He & cohorts are responsible for keeping 3-4 different means of extremely cheap and non-polluting energy off the market because it would decentralize !!!!CONTROL!!!! over the serfs and slaves.


60 posted on 05/18/2010 7:53:02 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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