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 ...
Maybe Ted hears God telling us to dump the ‘rats in November.
“I’m not a real religious person, but I’m somewhat religious.” - 2010
“Christianity is a religion for losers” -1990
Ted needs to pay attention. God’s followers have tuned out CNN.
Ted be careful...I would hate to be u.
“...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.
I think God cursed Atlanta by sending a Ted Turner.
Otherwise, not.
I’m not religious, but I’m religious.
Sharp, Ted. Sharp.
[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)
Maybe God is using CNN to tell him he should’ve never got into the news business.
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.
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.
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.
LOL!!! That comment had to be saved-er, I mean that in a non-spiritual sense. ;O)
ATHEIST-HOSTILE-TO-CHRISTIANS-TO-THE-MAX—THAT TED TURNER???
One of the globalist Chief Jerks?
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.
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