God has a limitless supply of oil or ANY energy source we need.
I can just imagine what those environmentalists in Jesus' day were saying about the oil they burned lamps with!!
"All those lamps burning oil, its going to destroy the world and cause the whole earth to overheat!"
And those horses and donkeys & camels!!! rotfl " those animals are causing so much pollution by their their farts and poop!, We need to get rid of the cows, horses, donkeys and oxen and find a better way to farm and travel., How about using machines the use four wheels and have an engine that would be a lot less pollution!!" rotfl
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You fail at environmentalism. In fact, your nonsensical belief in God helped get us into this mess.
Thankfully there are some churches that have figured out that God told us to NOT fuck up the earth.
Does he supply an unlimited amount of food and water, as well? If you get made redundant tomorrow, will he supply you with unlimited money, if you pray hard enough?
I can just imagine what those environmentalists in Jesus' day were saying about the oil they burned lamps with!!
Probably something along the lines of "This smells like olives."
What, did you think they drilled for crude?
Normally I would say:
Well, burn oil and cause pollution and then finally, when the climate change is there see wether your god helps you or not.
The sad thing is, that those Fundies share the world with us so that when they destroy their world, our world gets destroyed as well.
Meya, try to think, it may be a new experience for you. Lamps 2000 years ago burned olive oil, rape seed oil, hemp oil, in fact, just about any vegetable oil. Candles were made from beeswax or tallow (rendered animal fat). There was no use of fossil fuels, because they couldn't drill down to find it, and couldn't refine it, if they had. The Earth's population was a fraction of today's, and there were no combustion engines producing huge quantities of hydrocarbons. Nice try at comparison, but unfortunately, a huge failure.
"[G]od has a limitless supply of oil or ANY energy source we need."
god has magical powers as well, he uses them all the time, and he will reward you if you kiss his ass with sincerity and feeling.
not.
I love this post on environmentalist hypocrites:
"if you really are for saving the trees, get out of your wood frame house and quit using toilet paper. Imagine if all the millions of environmentalists did that, how many trees would we save in a year, not to mention the energy needed to harvest and process those trees."
Societies of 2000 years ago:
-Don't use resources as wantonly as we do.
-Used resources that were, at least, plentiful and/or renewable.
-Didn't create an environmental disaster in the scale we see today.
-Didn't have as many mouths to feed
-Didn't create the amount of waste we do
-In general, while they didn't have the knowledge we do, they didn't have the capacity to fuck up the world as we do either. So it seems stupid to compare us, with the knowledge and ability to prevent an environmental disaster, to 2000 years ago when such a prospect didn't even exist.
Clearly this begins, "If God is real, He will always take care of me." i.e. food and water, gas for the Hummer with the Jesus and Semper Fi bumper stickers. We know that food is not endless, nor is clean water, and supply and demand pricing tell us gas ain't endless, either. Therefore...
@...
Someone somewhere has noticed and is probably working on a better way to clean our butts.
Edit: Oh, wait. Cotton. I get it.
Estimated world population in Jesus' day: 300 million
Estimated world population today: 6 billion
And those horses and donkeys & camels!!! rotfl " those animals are causing so much pollution by their their farts and poop!,
And they did 2,000 years ago, too. Why does the rise in pollution correlate with the rise in the human use of fossil fuels?
God has a limitless supply of oil or ANY energy source we need.
Quick, get Him hooked up to the mains and start pumping Him...oh wait....FAIL
This post reminds me of that Fundie Texan who went over to Israel and drilled a bunch of holes in the Negev Desert because of a verse in the Old Testament that predicts a surfeit of "oil" in the area.
Sad, really, because any Hebrew speaker cold have told him that the word in that verse, "shemen," refers to oil from plants and animals, not to mineral pertroleum (known as "neft" in Hebrew).
Trust me people, she's not a poe, she was this stupid at WWGHA, and she's stupid In the forum as well.
She's a barrel of laughs, check the rest of the post, and all her other posts. It's like a FSTDT goldmine.
Don't read them without a towel handy though. I had to wipe the stupid from my monitor afterwards, some had even seeped on to the floor, there was so much of it.
Illuminatalie: If he's anything like the conservative loons today, Jesus would drive a H2.
Of course, the nice Bible Jesus the fundies seem to hate would at least drive a Prius, if not simply walk. (Or teleport.)
Back then the environment wasn't an issue because there were so few people and they were all ignorant douchebags.
Eh-Oh, I'm sorry.
Actually, I'm not. You're an ignorant douchebag. God 'helps those who help themselves' because He is not there and He is not going to help us with anything.
Many civilizations a few thousand years ago liked to slash-n-burn and use destructive agricultural practices that resulted in deforestation and severe erosion. Animals of many sorts went extinct before even that, through the hand of Man. They didn't consider the consequences of their actions, and thought their resources would last forever.
It feels odd to see folks like that are still around.
Religion in a nutshell: senselessness, superiority, selfishness, hate, intolerance and ignorance.
Need I go on?
actually, horses pooping in the streets was a major cause of disease up until modern times.
today's cities with their automobiles are a thousand times cleaner than 19th century cities with horses everywhere.
paving helps too.
you know, I have a fantasy about jesus coming back, taking a look around, and saying, "clean up this mess you made!"
...there were environmentalists back then? Damn I need to read more.
And please tell me I'm not the only one tempted to sing "Honking Antelope"... "Weeeee are the caaaaause of a world that's gone wrooong~"
"And those horses and donkeys & camels!!! rotfl " those animals are causing so much pollution by their their farts and poop!, We need to get rid of the cows, horses, donkeys and oxen and find a better way to farm and travel., How about using machines the use four wheels and have an engine that would be a lot less pollution!!" rotfl"
That was EXACTLY the popular reasoning at the beginning of the 20th century.
And if you'd seen the knee-deep horse manure covering the streets of New York City, you'd know why.
EDIT: Darn it, Chamale beat me to it!
God may HAVE that limitless supply, but remember- God is a cranky toddler. He'll never give it to us, and if we ask, he'll just yell 'MINE' and hold onto it even tighter.
Also, things created naturally (i.e. olive oil, and feces) are significantly easier on the environment than man-made materials (gasoline, toxic waste, styrofoam). And considering the population disparity between today and 2,000 years ago, every human being and animal on earth could have worn diesel-powered jumpsuits 24/7 and still not have caused nearly as much pollution as we do.
God has a limitless supply of oil. Unfortunately, he uses it to keep warm and cozy those ever increasing billions of dead people. So, you see, he can't really share.
They did not know about pullution and such, at the time of Jesus' supposed lifetime.
Now we do know, and we need to make drastic changes immediately, if the Earth is to survive.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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