Conservative commentators and right-wing Christian media deny climate change by claiming God controls the weather

DarkGamer, 5 months ago

They're just so incredibly stupid.

FoundTheVegan, 5 months ago

Nothing is humans fault because God controls all!

Also,

Hurricanes, floods and forest fires is cause of the gays.

veganpizza69, 5 months ago

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boobquake

shalafi, 5 months ago

That’s logically consistent. God controls the weather in both cases.

Potatos_are_not_friends, 5 months ago

Everything shitty just keeps coming back to right-wing Christians.

Why is that?

skeezix, 5 months ago

There’s a joke that conservatism is a mental disease. There is a truth to that. Not all diseases are pathogenic and deteriorative. Humans can be persuaded (and self-persuaded) into a conservative mental state. Some people have a strong natural immunity and others are very susceptible.

Throughout much of human history conservatism had a use. Wandering tribes that had a strong powerful leader, who resisted changes to behaviour or custom, tended to survive. Examples of conservatism could be not mingling with distant tribes, right down to not eating an unknown plant or animal.

Today’s world is different. With 8 billion people we have essentially become one tribe. What was a useful strategy for millennia, has become a liability. Now our prosperity and survival is intertwined and interconnected globally. The richest among us eat food picked by the poorest among us, who may live thousands of miles away. We rely on each other across all lines of class, race, religion, sex, and worth.

In times of stress, humans are wired to reach into our instinctual toolboxes and pull out seemingly useful approaches. The conservative mindset is one. Humans prefer simple answers to complex problems. Throughout human history, most problems have been rather simple: meat, shelter, water, or fire. These days the earth and humanity has a host of very serious and complex problems that need complex solutions. Retreating into a conservative mindset is a knee jerk reaction, to simplify the problem, to assuage the inner stress. So the conservative blames the immigrant, or proclaims that whatever happened was “god’s plan”, or claims the Creator will fix all.

And this mindset is antithetical to humanity’s survival.

But your average conservative rube is only indirectly to blame for the world’s woes. Humans have another troublesome trait: the desire for power. Those who have amassed power have learned to exploit conservatives in order to maintain power and expand it. In this regard, true conservatives are “useful idiots”. No matter how much their best interests are destroyed or trodden, they can be counted on to support whatever their leaders want, because their leaders have perfected the art of tapping into the disease.

We have reached a point where the best interest of the planet and humans is in direct opposition to the immediate interests of a (relatively) small faction of powerful.

And many leaders among the powerful are conservative in proclamation only. Simply to retain approval of the rubes. It is estimated that maybe 1% of the right-wing legislative branch believe the rhetoric they spout. All the flip-flopping, hypocrisy, dog whistling, quiet parts spoken, is horseshit. They know it’s horseshit. But horseshit is the currency they spend to retain power. And once that currency is worthless they’ll abandon it.

And the scary part is that once the currency of horseshit becomes worthless the only way left to retain power is by fascism.

shalafi, 5 months ago

Thank you! I’ve gathered quite a collection of downvotes for saying the conservative brain came from our evolution. Far more useful in the past than now, just as you outlined.

I still argue that sort of brain is needed. I’m liberal on almost every political subject, yet I don’t want liberals to have total and complete control. Road to hell, good intentions and such. The left needs a slight brake on it for best results.

But, power. Our leaders know how to tap those brains for political points. Seems humanity is doomed to fall in and out of fascism, over and over again. FFS, “I hate Illinois Nazis.” was a joke back in 1980. Because the idea of a modern American Nazi was fucking ludicrous. And here we are.

ArugulaZ, 5 months ago

God clearly isn't doing a very good job.

xenu, 5 months ago

Yes dumbasses like this are allowed to vote.

xkforce, 5 months ago

So they’re effectively saying every natural disaster was their god mass murdering people. Kind of blasphemous isn’t it?

SkyezOpen, 5 months ago

Guy flooded the earth because he regretted making humanity. Natural disasters are a classic for him. Mass murder is his thing.

AllonzeeLV, 5 months ago

Mass murder is his thing.

Because he loves us.

hakunawazo, 5 months ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fdd116d3-54bc-4967-a4a8-73effe340292.jpeg

AllonzeeLV, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Neat! Where’s the door to hell? Have fun giving babies leukemia, I’ll let myself out.

Do you validate? No? Alrighty then!

AllonzeeLV, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

“We’re God’s playtoys to do fuck all with for any reason or no reason. Finding that concept horrifying and worthy of contempt is blasphemous and means you side with evil.”

-Abrahamic Theists

In the Words of Al Pacino’s Satan from The Devil’s Advocate, worship that NEVER.

IHeartBadCode, 5 months ago

"Jesus take the wheel!"

Jesus: Don't fucking blame me that you lack self restraint! You got a brain, ain't my problem you can't use it correctly.