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To: Guyin4Os
Sanctimonious drivel. This woman will be a Marxist within 10 years and her ideology will trump her theology.

I'd like to hear you critique her reasoning instead of giving me two line attack as in the above.
3 posted on 04/02/2010 7:52:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
I'd like to hear you critique her reasoning instead of giving me two line attack as in the above.

The problem with critiquing her reasoning is that she does not define her terms. For instance, what does she mean by "environmentalism"? I consider myself an environmentalist, but I consider the idea that humanity is influencing global climate to be preposterous and the "green" agenda to be downright evil.

In my view, most of the agenda of the environmental movement for the last forty years has been anti-human and, frankly, anti-environment. I believe that wealthy societies are clean societies, and that subsistence societies lack the resources to bother to do much about protecting their environment. Finally, I believe that almost all real environmental issues are local and regional; I don't think there is such a thing as a truly "global" environmental issue.

That said, I think we should care for creation; we are its stewards. I love nature and despise littering, for example, and I think regulating industrial waste is a legitimate function of government.

I guess if I were to critique the reasoning of the column, it would be to say that the author presents a false choice between ideology and theology as drivers of our thinking, and that she presents conservative opposition as a "they're for it, so I'm agin' it" straw man.

There are other options - ideology and theology are not the only sources of truth. What about looking at environmental issues with curious but skeptical eyes and looking for common-sense solutions to the problems that turn out to be real, rather than swallowing the environmental left's propaganda wholesale under the guise of being "Biblical"?

The author needs to understand that treating her opposition as a cartoonish straw man does nothing to convince those of us whose opposition is reasoned and principled. She'll have to do a whole lot better than this fluff.

9 posted on 04/02/2010 8:10:22 AM PDT by xjcsa (Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
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To: SeekAndFind
"I'd like to hear you critique her reasoning instead of giving me two line attack as in the above."

That's pretty easy. The whole article is about basing one's assertions on the Bible and she doesn't refer to the Bible to back up a single point she makes in the article.

17 posted on 04/02/2010 8:58:40 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: SeekAndFind
I'd like to hear you critique her reasoning instead of giving me two line attack as in the above.

It isn't even worth refutation. She is hobby-horsing.. ie, selecting a tiny area of theology around which to build an entire theology. Her ideology will eventually trump the way she treats all other aspects of theology.

30 posted on 04/02/2010 11:57:13 AM PDT by Guyin4Os (A messianic ger-tsedek)
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