FOX News Panel: Liberals Are "Worshipping the Environment" Instead of God

[NeoGreen]

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/09/22/fox-news-panel-liberals-are-worshipping-the-environment-instead-of-god/

FOX News Panel: Liberals Are “Worshipping the Environment” Instead of God
By David Gee, September 22, 2019

Members of a FOX News panel discussing climate change — mocking it, of course — claimed that environmentalists have “forgotten about God” and are “worshiping the environment instead.”

Which is their way of saying God will fix everything, so no need for us to do anything.

The Outnumbered panel was picking on 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg when conservative pundit Buck Sexton decided to tie environmentalism — climate change, specifically — to a religion. He was backed up by his co-host.

“Climate change is a religious belief for people who think they’re too smart for religion,” Sexton said.

Outnumbered co-host Melissa Francis piggybacked on the religious switcheroo Sexton says liberals are doing with the environment.

“They’ve got Catholic guilt and they’re going to confession,” Francis responded. “But they just have forgotten about God, so they’re worshipping the environment instead,” she added.

No. Just no. Climate change isn’t religion. There’s a key difference between the two: Only one is supported by the evidence. We understand the threat of climate change based on the scientific consensus, which is based on mountains of data. Religion is wishful thinking that relies on hope and tradition.

Emphasis added.

So does this mean that those who stand by 'faith' stand with Faux News?

[greymattermom]

1. Just argue that G-d created the world

and humans shouldn't mess with G-d's creation.

[Voltaire2]

18. What the heck is a g-d?

[Iggo]

21. You don't go to hell if you use a minus sign instead of an O.

It's like science or some shit.

[berni_mccoy]

2. So is there only one religion? Wasn't America founded on Freedom of Religion

People can believe whatever the fuck they want.

If people want to be druids, let them be druids.

FUAX is preaching to Christians only with this statement and is Anti-American.

[Mariana]

15. They know their audience, that's for sure.

The composition of the Faux audience is very close to 100% Christians of the hateful right-wing variety. Of course Faux is going to run programming that appeals to such people, and that denigrates those who disagree with them.

[BigMin28]

3. It must be

Painful to be as simple-minded as these people.

[Iliyah]

4. Didn't God create the earth?

Are so called Christians that lame?

[Act_of_Reparation]

16. "so-called"

Another day, another No True Scotsman.

[Voltaire2]

19. Well you might not want to make that argument

to a right wing Christian (or Jew or Muslim) who know their holy books, as they are likely to point out that their god(s) made the world and everything in it just for humans. So it is god given right and privilege to consume all the stuff god gave us.

As there is no single objectively “true” religious interpretation of those holy books, their “cornucopia” climate denial interpretation is just as valid as the “stewardship” environmentalist interpretation.

Even worse, their premillennial dispensationalist end times bullshit welcomes climate catastrophe.

[demigoddess]

23. yes, they are.

[sanatanadharma]

5. Regressive hypocrites mock their god and scripture, their days of punishment will be unnumbered

Numbers 35:33
“You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.”

[Docreed2003]

6. Evangelicals have been saying that crap for decades

I remember hearing that in the 80's in a small country southern Baptist church

[C_U_L8R]

7. God is nature

And don’t mess with her.

[Lotusflower70]

8. First of all

They are not Christians, they're charlatans. Beware of false prophets.

Also worshipping the environment that was designed by God (for those who believe) is a sign of respect for all creatures. Acting to protect the environment is a sign of love for God. And since God is love, taking care of all creation is something that is encouraged fully.

[NeoGreen]

9. Your logical fallacy is...

...
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/no-true-scotsman

no true scotsman
You made what could be called an appeal to purity as a way to dismiss relevant criticisms or flaws of your argument.

The are 'christians' because they self identify as 'christians'. Deal with it.

[Major Nikon]

10. They are Christians

And they are doing exactly what Christians have been doing for thousands of years, which is to say they are labeling those who don’t think as they do heretical.

[texasfiddler]

11. Republicans worship money over God

They just won’t admit it. How’s that for a broad brush response.

[walkingman]

12. This makes me so sad. My entire family is in the Southern Baptist religion and I find it

so depressing. They literally live in another world among other like themselves and are some of the most racist, anti-environment, bigoted people I know. I tried for years to get along with them but it was useless. Nasty towards anyone that doesn't think like them.

[struggle4progress]

13. This from those that worship Trump as the chosen one

[Bretton Garcia]

14. "The laws of Nature and of Nature's God," are linked.

By the founders of America. In the Declaration of Independence.

In that phrase by the way, God can be seen as linked but also subordinate to, nature.

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

17. Dominion and Stewardship over the world....

... but doing so is not putting God above everything...

but it was God who gave said Stewardship...
but then God doesn't like said Stewardship....

Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent, and Bi-Polar. Hmmmm......

[Voltaire2]

20. If their gods weren't psychotic then

they would be less powerful than an equivalent but psychotic god. So god is psychotic.

[Bretton Garcia]

22. Yikes !

Sounds all too true; the Book of Revelation is as crazy as it gets.