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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'll Take "Crazy Shit Fundies Say For $400, Alex".
On last Fridays episode of his Focal Point radio program, the American Family Associations Bryan Fischer declared that droughts and storms and natural disasters are not being caused by climate change, but rather are the result of the sin of man.
Fischer was discussing a passage from 2 Chronicles in which God says that when I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Fischer took this verse as evidence that all natural disasters are the result of human sin and can be stopped by repentance.
Were talking here about what our environmentalist friends would call extreme weather, he said. Everything is the fault of global warming to them: Were going to have more droughts because of global warming; were going to have more extreme weather because of global warming; were going to have more cyclones because of global warming; were going to have more tornadoes because of global warming.
The problem is not global warming, Fischer continued. The problem is the sin of man. And the sin of mannot pumping CO2 into the airbut the sin of man is not following the rules and the statues of God. Thats the sin. In time, the penalty for that sin is the heavens are shut up, theres no rain, theres a drought, animals are dying, crops are not growing.
The solution is not to go to Congress and get them to crack down carbon emissions, Fischer said. The solution is to go before God on our faces and repent of our sin.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/bryan-fischer-the-solution-to-climate-change-is-to-repent-of-our-sin/
Fischer was discussing a passage from 2 Chronicles in which God says that when I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Fischer took this verse as evidence that all natural disasters are the result of human sin and can be stopped by repentance.
Were talking here about what our environmentalist friends would call extreme weather, he said. Everything is the fault of global warming to them: Were going to have more droughts because of global warming; were going to have more extreme weather because of global warming; were going to have more cyclones because of global warming; were going to have more tornadoes because of global warming.
The problem is not global warming, Fischer continued. The problem is the sin of man. And the sin of mannot pumping CO2 into the airbut the sin of man is not following the rules and the statues of God. Thats the sin. In time, the penalty for that sin is the heavens are shut up, theres no rain, theres a drought, animals are dying, crops are not growing.
The solution is not to go to Congress and get them to crack down carbon emissions, Fischer said. The solution is to go before God on our faces and repent of our sin.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/bryan-fischer-the-solution-to-climate-change-is-to-repent-of-our-sin/
Where do they come up with this shit?
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I'll Take "Crazy Shit Fundies Say For $400, Alex". (Original Post)
Initech
May 2019
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underpants
(183,070 posts)1. I have a question for you
Is the answer Jesus?
Well, no I dont think it ...
WRONG! The answers always Jesus!
Remember when Sonny Perdue was Governor of Georgia he held a prayer session at the state capital for rain.
lame54
(35,360 posts)2. Maybe it's from placing the ultimate sinner in the highest office in America
MineralMan
(146,356 posts)3. "man is not following the rules and the statues of God."
What "statues" of God? Perhaps he meant "statutes."
Dumbass!
Mariana
(14,863 posts)4. Fischer explained where he came up with this shit.
He didn't make it up. The Bible clearly supports the idea that God controls the weather, and it contains stories in which God used bad weather to punish populations of people.