2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Senator James Inhofe: Bible Refutes Climate Change [View all]davidthegnome
(2,983 posts)If there is a God - I am unsure either way, but if there is a God then God gave us free will. We certainly have the power to destroy the climate - to destroy everything on this planet, many times over. Anyone who thinks that the bible is a solid argument against climate change needs to have their frigging head examined.
Inhofe, what's stunning about your arrogance is that you seem to think we have no responsibility for the climate. Easier to shrug it off and say "God will take care of it." That may help you sleep at night Senator, but it's time to face reality before it's too late. Humanity has caused the climate to change, we are altering it further with every passing year. We are altering it to such an extent that there may be nothing left for the generations to come.
By Inhofe's "logic", every terrible thing on earth happens because God wills it so. We are apparently powerless tools of fate, unable to change our own futures or alter the world we live in. This gives the lie to any claim by Inhofe that he is capable of (or practices) personal accountability. When you have a "God" that is responsible for everything, it is so very easy to sit back and do nothing, hoping - or actually believing, that this mighty power will solve everything itself in due course.
Fortunately, I think Inhofe's God is the thing of fairy tales. If there is one, I strongly suspect that such a being would leave us to our own devices. There are countless planets in the Universe to watch over, so many species of life on this Earth alone. What makes some arrogant enough to believe that we are somehow more significant than any of them? On the contrary, I suspect that there is truly intelligent life somewhere out there, possibly even listening in on occasion. If such life exists, we have not yet been contacted by it because we have "Senators" like Inhofe. Even to an educated person the man seems primitive in intelligence.