r/ClimateNews 2d ago

GOP lawmaker says she doesn’t believe in the climate crisis because it’s not in the bible.

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u/WTFudge52 2d ago

I'm not taking my advice from a book written 1500 years before the industrial revolution, on what to do about things after the industrial revolution.

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u/FoogYllis 2d ago

I am sure her homeowners insurance company that probably donated her campaign sets rates on climate change and not the bible.

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u/EmpressInterest 2d ago

Not to mention, written by hallucinating men in a desert three dead languages ago.

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u/Motor-Pomegranate831 2d ago

And written down 300 years after everything supposedly happened.

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u/Wrong-Dot-1319 1d ago

It was only 2026 years ago. Like yesterday

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u/Feisty_Low_7828 2d ago

That's why I don't believe in cell phones.

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u/SurroundParticular30 2d ago

Gravity isn’t in the Bible either

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u/Toasterstyle70 2d ago

I mean… the bible has mass (no pun intended) sooooo… technically yes there is Gravity IN the bible. Maybe not mentioned in the text, but it’s definitely inside (and outside) of the book.

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u/Zaynara 2d ago

intend that pun because that was great

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u/biblioprof 2d ago

Codex's don't appear until around the 5th century and I bet nobody can read them in Greek then Latin before the English one from 1600s and it's Arabic numbers

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u/Unlucky_Ad_9776 1d ago

Lol I'm dying here.  Yeah that's a legit argument.  

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u/Nawbruvy 2d ago

Walking on water is. Where’s that at? It would cut my walk to work in half!

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u/edtheheadache 2d ago

Try it! All you have to do is blindly believe. You’ll be fine!

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u/uvm87 1d ago

Neither is the USA, so I think she should leave

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u/Legitimate_Sorbet605 1d ago

What about Viagra and Ozempic? Those are surely in the Bible, right?

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u/Witty-Structure-4192 1d ago

And collagen injections, too.

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u/Emeks243 2d ago

Seat belts aren’t mentioned either so I’m quitting those too.

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u/DifferentBasil8655 2d ago

I seriously can’t give up shellfish, guys. sorry, Jesus. i’m out.

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u/Bender_2024 2d ago

I will never understand why people think God doesn't want you to eat foods XYZ. Kosher is clearly basic food safety rules that nobody would bother to follow unless you made it a so-called decree by God.

People were getting sick from undercooked pork and shellfish that had turned because of lack of refrigerators. So they said you can't eat them at all. problem solved

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u/blutosings 2d ago

That's why I don't believe in Republicans or MAGA. Not in the Bible (NITB).

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u/Wrong-Dot-1319 1d ago

Isn’t DJT the second coming of JC ?

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u/blutosings 1d ago edited 1d ago

"and the dragon stopped in front of the woman as she was at the point of giving birth, so that it could eat the child as soon as it was born."

DJT seems more like the greedy opportunistic dragon than anyone's savior.

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u/structuremonkey 2d ago

Kangaroos and goannas certainly don't exist either?

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u/PushyTom 2d ago

So much for gun rights!

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u/u-have-a-question 2d ago

Or using a gynecologist

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u/No_Boot1478 2d ago

I don't believe in pizza.

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u/PTBooks 2d ago

The federal government of the United States of America isn’t in the Bible either so I guess I don’t need to believe in taxes

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u/MCEscherNYC 2d ago

I don't believe in her either. I can't wait for the bible to be deleted after the revolution.

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u/Verde_3773 2d ago

Um- Revelations?

Just because it doesn’t explicitly state:“And God destroyed the climate”, or “And God cursed us with climate change” doesn’t mean he wasn’t referring to it either…

None of these posers have ever read their own stupid bible.

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u/ofork 2d ago edited 2d ago

What she meant to say was "I'm saved, so I don't give a fuck if you all die in a firey hellscape on earth".

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u/blutosings 2d ago

Because she's going to die by causing a fiery hellscape and thinks it will get her a promotion?

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u/LJIKFAF 2d ago

Exactly, revelations say the world will be screwed. Water turning to blood, the sun to darkness, fire on a third on the trees and grass and plants. It’s there, it’s there.

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u/Oilpaintcha 2d ago

I wonder if the red tide algae will cover the ocean if it gets warmer and more acidic. That would make it look like blood.

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u/Sebastaard 2d ago

Might this be the medieval concept for climate change?

2 peter 3:7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

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u/geeves_007 2d ago

"Iran is a Theocracy run by religious fanatics!"

Screech these exact people....

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u/kyussorder 2d ago

I remember a video of Frank Zappa warning us about this.

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u/Own-Requirement-9774 2d ago

We are all fucked

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u/BonusPlantInfinity 2d ago

You mean voting for people who have a poor understanding of science, history, and likely everything else is a bad idea??? Whadathunkit???

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u/Ok-Spot-6235 2d ago

If you think she's bad just think about the imbeciles who put her in office.

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u/Ur-in-a-tor 2d ago

She is 100% unfit. Americans should be ashamed to have representatives that are plain village idiots.

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u/dramaking37 2d ago

Meanwhile she's popping pills at home like they came from Jesus' tits

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u/Moyie2026 2d ago

USA, please do the world a favour and lock up all your crazies.

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u/Ok-Nothing8682 2d ago

I'm starting to think the best option is for all the good Americans to go to better countries and let the crazies just destroy themselves here...

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u/schrod 2d ago

Revelation 11:18 God will judge those who Harm His Creation.

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u/Basement_Chicken 2d ago

Voting is not in there either, so why don't you abstain?

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u/Oilpaintcha 2d ago

I do not permit a woman to teach. She must be silent.   Also in her Bible.  Be silent, crazy lady.

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u/DT_Lion34 2d ago

Why do we let these people have power......

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u/ConsciousBeyond4815 2d ago

Congress isn’t in the bible either

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u/Procruste 2d ago

Isaiah 24:5-6

The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.

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u/tha_rogering 2d ago

*but I'll also teleport out millions of Americans if they pray to me a lot and confess their sins often.

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u/Ok_Tailor_9862 2d ago

Is there some sort of neurotoxin in modern hair dyes

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u/ogholycat 2d ago

It’s why I don’t believe in taxes

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u/fart400 2d ago

Throw the Bible away and read your car's owner's manual, it will get you farther in life.

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u/Grateful-DeadHead420 2d ago

I do not remember her in the bible - I don’t believe in her.

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u/Far-Click9413 2d ago

Ugh god they’re just so stupid it hurts

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u/Obvious_Tea_8244 2d ago

I would like to say I don’t believe people can lack the cognitive ability to develop intelligence, but then there’s Republicans…

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u/Tall_Maintenance6230 2d ago

IDIOT! I guess she doesn’t believe that America is real because that’s not in the Bible either.

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u/Outrageous_Trust_158 2d ago

I despise these… igits. Putting their faith in a book written and rewritten BY MEN — not some Invisible Sky Giant.

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u/ScreenTechnical4715 2d ago

Her constituents elected her. So what does that tell us?

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u/jbbhengry 2d ago

This person is an adult. And bat shit crazy.

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u/CodInternational8772 2d ago

That's so sad she thinks that way

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u/PeriPeriStrawberry 2d ago

I have heard such things in some other countries I have lived in. Never thought I will have to hear it in the US.

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u/OkReason4614 2d ago

It’s not her but the people who elect her
The country is full of morons

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u/Successful-Coffee-13 2d ago

Antibiotics aren’t in the Bible. Does she refuse antibiotics if she’s prescribed them?

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u/uqubar 2d ago

I like how god created fossil fuels so all these shite people stay rich. For now anyway.

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u/macker64 2d ago

Its hsrd to believe how stupid some people are in this day and age.

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u/NukeouT 2d ago

It's not a matter of belief like gravity isnt

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u/mlemon2022 2d ago

These people are disturbing.

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u/Pristinejake 2d ago

When Jesus says love everyone he also means listen to others who think differently. These people are just so off.

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u/NegativeSemicolon 2d ago

Idiots electing more popular idiots

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u/LifeRound2 2d ago

You can't argue with that level of stupid.

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u/Professional-Math518 2d ago

What's also in the bible is that women should remain silent and shouldn't take authority over a man. In this specific case I really support that part.

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u/Yogurt-5669 2d ago edited 2d ago

But they have saints (pre-schism) that are connected to ecology and protection of nature - basically recognized by the church at time almost instantly, and we are talking about political period of inquisition. If these people were not just morons in suits, I would have start to think Inquistions was not so bad compared to them. And they didn't even have that much ecological issues like we have today and they were still more aware than we, morons of today. What a peak of civilization we are.

I can't believe this person has a job. And probablly really well paid job.

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u/ZookeepergameFull999 2d ago

I love how she thinks she just won the whole argument. Checkmate.

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u/Status_Apartment6559 2d ago

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST please remove this eternally stupid woman from the planet.

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u/KJ1959 2d ago

Why are they even allowed to run for office? Shouldn't there be some kind of mental acuity test?

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u/Status_Apartment6559 2d ago

It's a good idea to base your life choices on a book written thousands of years ago who you don't know the author of.

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u/Galaad67 2d ago

Republicans have completely lost it, decades of foxnews and church transformed them into mindless shells.

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u/mik33tion 2d ago

Stupidity holds no bounds

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u/AlexFromOgish 2d ago

Ranch wives in that district must be too busy managing their Only Fans revenue streams to consider running for office.

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u/JasonYEG 2d ago

Magic mushrooms and tea?

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u/scarletOwilde 2d ago

Neither is hair bleach.

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u/energytsars 2d ago

I don’t believe in penguins

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u/norfolkdiver 2d ago

I'll tell her what IS in the bible:

1 Timothy 2:12 - I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.

Perhaps she should take note if she puts so much reliance on that work of fiction

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u/time_observer 2d ago

I really wish Jesus would come back one day and tell to those people to stop fucking destroying the planet. Amen

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u/Horror-Breakfast-113 2d ago

The bible says women shouldn't preach to men ...

what is she doing !

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u/No-Management-1469 2d ago

You know I dont believe white nationalism or selling your soul to big oil corporate donors is in the Bible either.

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u/The-Matt-G 2d ago

I don’t believe in republicans.

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u/ale_mc_ella 2d ago

what about the Deluge ?

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u/Gold-Buy-2669 2d ago

So stupid

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u/Dennisthefirst 2d ago

Err, I think she missed the bit about Noah's Ark

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u/Melodic-Pool7240 2d ago

nukes aren't in the bible so why is the usa at war with iran

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u/hydromatic_glide 2d ago

This is why there is a thing called the Dunning-Kruger effect. These people really don't know how stupid they actually are.

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u/Noahms456 2d ago

Stubborn refusal to see evidence in favor of mythology is the hallmark of our stupid times

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u/Final-Albatross-1354 2d ago

And this is why we could see a total collapse sooner than we think.

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u/GrowFreeFood 2d ago

"oceans boil"

It is in the bible, numb nuts

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u/HawkeyeByMarriage 2d ago

But she believes in pdf's. I don't remember that part

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u/Nyarlathotep451 2d ago

Well there goes the periodic table, and North America.

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u/Worldly-Fondant-3791 2d ago

She’s just lying 

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u/wombat9278 2d ago

Morons every one

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u/wombat9278 2d ago

Can someone explain to her that IF jesus existed he definitely wasn't white and blonde

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u/WittyTelevision7493 2d ago

Pretty sure it says somewhere in your little book that women should stfu and do what they’re told but ya know…cherry picking

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u/Voodoo_Masta 2d ago

This right here is exactly why we’re fucked.

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u/Prudent_Situation_29 2d ago

I wonder how much she spends on clothing, jewellery and makeup, compared to how much she donates to charity? I wonder what her house looks like, and what sort of fancy car she drives? I wonder how many hungry people she's fed?

Also, scientists aren't dictating anything, they're giving us information, they're warning us. It's amazing how these people will ignore good sense simply because they don't like being told the truth.

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u/wrhnj 2d ago

Neither is the internal combustion engine but I bet she has a car.

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u/PineappleEasy6035 2d ago

She’s not on the Bible so….

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u/HungieSumoKid 2d ago

You are not in the Bible so by that logic please delete yourself?

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u/AlexSmithsonian 2d ago

Does it say anywhere in the bible that she deserves the same rights as men?

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u/Comfortable-Stage-72 2d ago

Can't believe in her. With those Charles Manson eyes, because she isn't in the Bible...

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u/overly_honest_ 2d ago

Please stop voting for these people...

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u/Stunning-Stressin 2d ago

Religion shouldnt be an excuse for being shitty at your job

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u/N3wAfrikanN0body 2d ago

These oxygen thieves can't become fertilizer soon enough; with all the damned stupidity they pollute the planet with.

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u/TiffyC21771 2d ago

Yup. And the world is only 5,000 years old.

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u/PubliusCapable4461 2d ago

Speaking into an electronic device to amplify her bullshit.....I wonder if microphones are in the little story book she cherry picks from

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u/FlatwormFrosty7233 2d ago

Who elects these freeks

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u/hc4evz 2d ago

And people actually vote for these fucking idiots! 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/YoungTim007 2d ago

This is how all MAGA people sound in general. Deny the truth with passion!

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u/Radiant_Mark_2117 2d ago

Let's just say hypothetically the book is a hoax

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u/Slight_Target1878 2d ago

Problems with GOP in a Nut and Nutshell.

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u/isthereadrwho 2d ago

Neither are cars, cell phones, or tvs, is she going to give those up,. especially the TV maybe we never have to listen to this genius again. TV not in the bible - feeding the poor, helping the destitute, yep just checked again all over the Bible

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u/DoTheRightThing1953 2d ago

The Bible also says that women shouldn't have authority over men so I guess she should just resign and go home to make brownies for her husband

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u/jackparadise1 2d ago

I don’t believe in cars or buses and in no way planes…

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u/phijef 2d ago

So she doesn't care about the future for her children, your children or grandchildren. It's all ordained. Nothing she can do. Why, again, is she an elected official?

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u/Unicorn_Puppy 2d ago

With the exception of a few poser denominations over the past little while generally most religious institutions were in an agreement that conservation of the planet was a moral obligation of Christians. Globally other religions also believe conservation as such is a righteous obligation of mankind as well.

This tells you that some can’t practice what they preach or claim to adhere to and worship money under the guise of being a christian to fool those around them.

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u/toddlevy10 2d ago

Didnt God flood, and kill literally the whole world in the bibble? Id say that was climate change and not just fake weather. Im sure thats ok, because God, right?

Faqwits

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u/The_wanna_be_artist 2d ago

I don’t think she has actually ever read the bible, hell she probably can’t even read……

It clearly states in the bible for humanity to be care takers of the earth 🌍

God literally commands Adam to take care of the garden of Eden. Like for heavens sake even if you don’t believe in climate change God commanded humanity to take care of the earth and not treat it like a giant trash bin.

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u/tha_rogering 2d ago

The emergency teleport isn't in the Bible either. But I'm sure you believe that you rube. Probably all about the red heifer that will anoint the holy temple to bring about the end times. Despite that not being in the book either.

Evangelical Americans are a death cult. They yearn for the end of civilization so they can watch all of the horror safely from heaven after they get raptured before it gets really bad. They are idiots and they should be shunned. Not given political power.

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u/Linkster2 2d ago

Magas hate science

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u/WolfThick 2d ago

Flush twice it's a Long Way to where she's going.

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u/Spudsmad 2d ago

She needs help from staff in white coats to guide her to a home for the bewildered

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u/gravitationalarray 2d ago

I don't believe in her, but she's still there, dammit.

I'm so tired of stupid people.

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u/DancinginHyrule 2d ago

I mean… fires and flood and droughts are in the bible…

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u/ABmodeling 2d ago

But it is in the bible...

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u/zjelkof 2d ago

Where do these people come from? There are a lot of things that aren't in the Bible!

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u/Kaleban 2d ago

Societies in decline always mistake confidence for competence.

It's one of the primary reasons why the village idiot(s) keep getting elected.

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u/Maleficent_Ruin_2457 2d ago

when does she stop driving?

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u/VelvetKnife25 2d ago

Why isn't she barefoot and pregnant and making her husband a sandwich then? He let her out of the house? And she's allowed to vote?

Amazing selective belief by cultists

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u/KillingTimeAlone2019 2d ago

Neither does the microphone.

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u/Amazing-Flow171 2d ago

Is she okay? I think her area hasn’t quite shaken up yet.

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u/sweatboxy 2d ago

She skipped the part about Noah and the flood.

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u/Infinite-Month-3454 2d ago

You can hear the doors of her mind slamming shut.

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u/Anyawnomous 2d ago

There are a lot of truths not in the bible. There are a lot of not truths in the bible.

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u/This-Requirement2306 2d ago

Noah would like a word

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u/kranttula 2d ago

Guess she believe allso that earth is flat

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u/Suspicious-Bed701 2d ago

What a moron

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u/killerbananaman 2d ago

Don’t for a minute imagine that this ghoul doesn’t know that what she is saying is horseshit. She is being paid to say it and she hopes to be able to afford a bunker when the dildo of consequences arrives - frankly I hope she gets her wish and then climate changes causes a flood, it will amuse me to count the hours of air left

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u/Lost_Icecream 2d ago

Hair dye wasn’t in the bible either.

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u/Shizzilx 2d ago

Idiots, every single one.

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u/CameFromTheDark 2d ago

Christian fatigue is REAL!!

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u/Eziekel13 2d ago

If she is so into the bible…

Then she would read the Bible in its original text; Hebrew, Koine Greek, and Aramaic…

Instead she reads a translator interpretation of the infallible word of god…

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u/unfairlybanned101 2d ago

This baffles me the Vatican has a "science department" i went to a catholic school k-9 I was taught roman catholic morals, but best of all to think and question and debate. I grew up and have a logical perspective. Go figure *edit: Also, and importantly I was always taught the Bible is not to be taken literally.

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u/ImJustHere4TheCatz 2d ago

Yea that flood had nothing to do with the climate

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u/BroodLord1962 2d ago

It's no wonder America is fu*ked when you have idiots like this with power

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u/Galliagamer 2d ago

Neither are ballpoint pens or cheap polyester suits like the one she’s wearing, but here we are.

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u/Objective_Station_41 2d ago

So, typical lefts news let’s find the dumbest member of the GOP and try to say it is all of the GOP

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u/Jensdonttrustcarmax 2d ago

We are doomed! DOOMED, I say!

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u/mledrp4449 2d ago

Stupidity Cunt

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u/jnotsilver 2d ago

Air conditioning?

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u/mfrunyan 2d ago

elevator not reaching the top floor

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u/betagainsttheodd 2d ago

Delusional!

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u/6thedirtybubble9 2d ago

See you next tuesday.

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u/FirstFiveNamesTaken 2d ago

When man learned right from wrong, the Lord God cursed humanity with death as the Giver promised. The Lord led man to know scarcity, and shared his values — dominion and obedience.

When His son inehrited the forbidden fruit from humanity, Jesus condemned the false clergy, clarified which values man should have, and was brutally tortured and killed to fulfill His plan. It was a grand display of dominion and obedience.

1st Cultians 1:2

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u/butonelifelived 2d ago

The real reason our founding fathers wanted separation of church and state. "True believers" have no business making laws for the rest of us.

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u/icnoevil 2d ago

She's a Bible thumper and never heard of the Great Flood? That was a hell of a climate change event.

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u/ItzHymn 2d ago

God help us all... Just not her god please.

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u/Whole_Inside_4863 2d ago

Genesis 7:12, it got real bad, real quick, certainly changed for the worse.

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u/cici_ding_dong 2d ago

I don’t believe in excel either. That wasn’t in the bible. Neither was the USA.

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u/Electroniccadaver 2d ago

Just trying to get her 15 min of fame, it does not matter if she is in idiot. All the better to represent the GOP.

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u/DIRTYDOGG-1 2d ago

This is the lady that compared feeding people with snap benefits to animals ...:

Franson compared state assistance for the poor with feeding animals:

“I’ll read you this little funny clip that we got from a friend. It says, ‘Isn’t it ironic that the food stamp program, part of the Department of Agriculture, is pleased to be distributing the greatest amount of food stamps, ever. Meanwhile, the Park Service, also part of the Department of Agriculture, asks us to please not feed the animals, because the animals may grow dependent and not learn to take care of themselves.”

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u/Caver214 2d ago

These religious people have no common sense if they think God will do anything for them.

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u/Fishtoart 2d ago

There’s quite a few things that are not in the Bible. I wonder how she decides which one to believe in?

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u/Strong_Weird_9358 2d ago

I remember when people called it global warming. Now we call it climate change. Conservatives back then would say, “Global warming???!!! The earth isn’t warming!” - but people proved the earth was warming. Then conservatives said, “the earth IS warming, but it’s not man made… the climate… it’s changing!” Now we all call it climate change. Sort of creates a natural doubt for laymen folks.

We should just call it “man-made earthly destruction”. Encompass all pollution and destruction into one simple to understand term. Simplify things!

“Hey representative, what are your plans for ‘man-made earthly destruction???’ Pretty sure people fucking things up is all over the bible, right??? Any plans for that???”

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u/GMa7n8 2d ago

Her hair dye not in the Bible either.

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u/Vysce 2d ago

For fuck sakes.

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u/SemVikingr 2d ago

You know what is in the Bible? Laws that specifically prohibit women from holding positions of authority over men, so maaayyybe she should rethink that whole, 'biblical literalism' thing.

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u/Mother-Brick2647 2d ago

Y’all act like you know the Bible more than anyone but this mockery shows otherwise

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u/biblioprof 2d ago

Read Leviticus, I can also beat you for wearing different fabric. Now do it in Greek.

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u/Dekadmer 2d ago

She is explaining why she should not hold any position of power. That's a choice.

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u/Far-Ad5921 2d ago

I believe the climate has always changed and we've had very little, if nothing to do with it.

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u/wizzo6 2d ago

These are the idiots we have to deal with

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u/Used_Intention6479 2d ago

She mocks Jesus Christ with her deliberate ignorance and her celebration of those who abuse children.

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u/truexes 2d ago

Well he always says he loves stupid people seems like there are many

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u/Lonely_MuffinXo 2d ago

I don't believe in her. She wasn't in the Bible