The Pathetic God of Environmentalism

By Larrey Anderson, AT:

The God of the Jews is righteous and just. The Old Testament tells the simple story of what happens when God’s commandments are followed and when they are disobeyed. The God of the Jews doesn’t need any help. He is not a victim. He is the great “I am that I am.” As Moses found out, that is all that we have been told (and probably all that we can understand) about God. That was the end of the discussion.

The Christian God is a God of love and forgiveness. But that does not mean that the Christian God is powerless and needs our assistance:

At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. Matthew 24:30 [Emphasis added.]

Not so with the pathetic god of the environmentalists. She is sick. She requires that we pass cap-and-trade legislation — least she suffer even more.

The theological conclusion that follows from worshiping Mother Earth is that she is no god at all. She doesn’t even have the power to defend herself from the CO2 that is emitted when we exhale.

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