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.
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Exactly, how would Turner know about anything God might say?
Hanoi Jane probably told him that god whispers in his ear.
Excerpt from the link in post 61,
Tar balls have started washing up on the beaches of Alabama.
Tar in the Bible is called pitch, and it occurs 19 times in the KJV.
The first occurrence is in Genesis 6, in connection with Noah’s flood.
The second connection is with Moses when his mother covered a basket with pitch before putting him in it and casting them both adrift on the Nile.
Both connections are to judgment.
Noah’s flood was a world-wide calamity brought about by the absolute wickedness of mankind and their sexual involvement with the fallen angels.
The second was specifically judgments upon Egypt and her gods as well as Pharaoh as Moses was directed by God to speak them.
Both instances of pitch, pitch on the ark and pitch on the basket, speak to a demarcation line or barrier between the righteous (Noah) on one side and the wicked on the other, the preservation of God’s anointed (Moses) on one side and judgments to come on the other. Pitch was used as a barrier between judgment upon the world and these men of God. The appearance of pitch may indicate coming judgments.
Tar/pitch is washing up on the coasts of Alabama (judgment begins on the coasts per the prophet Jeremiah), and Alabama just happens to be the state that was the first to declare the Ten Commandments as too judgmental for public places as Judge Roy Moore can speak about with firsthand knowledge.
There are two forms of wickedness: allowing sin in or keeping God out. Alabama certainly leaned towards the latter.
Other mentions of pitch in the Bible are with the “pitching of tents,” which is not in the same context as pitch/tar.
But Isaiah 34 mentions pitch as tar.
In my KJV Bible, chapter 34 is titled Judgment Against the Nations, and verse 5 says, “For my sword will be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.”
Idumea here means Edom or Esau and the descendants of Esau.
In A. A. Allen’s vision, he saw a large, deadly sword in the cup that Liberty was forced to drink. Here in verse 5, we see judgment coming upon two groups of people: descendants of Esau and the people “of my curse.”
This should IMMEDIATELY remind us of Genesis 12: 3.
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
There are a number of us who feel that by pressuring Israel to give up land that the God of Israel gave to her, we are cursing her and will suffer as a result.
There are no Atheists in the Environmental Foxhole.
INTERESTING.
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