[On teaching kids about environmentalism.]
Our church teamed up with the local public schools to run a day camp this summer. They ran the curriculum and supplied the teachers and funding. We supplied the facilities and administration. What we ended up with with an environmental cook's dream. My boys came home and started packratting capri sun juice box garbage to make one of those stupid "upcycle" bags.
It took me 3 weeks to deprogram them from all that. The result, our church will not be working with the school system again. Lesson learned.
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"And after Jesus had preached to the multitude, feeding them fish and bread, there was a mighty stench all around the mountain where they had relieved themselves.
Book of Republicans, Ch. 12, Vrs. 1-6
Absolutely! I read in the Bible that God wants everyone to trash the Earth and that care for his creation was not only unnecessary but actually a sin.
P.S. It also said God wants you to sell your daughters to the highest bidders and spit on liberals. God bless.
our church will not be working with the school system again.
Excellent, I'll remember you said that, next time we're talking about creationism in schools.
My late companion's fundie grandmother seriously believed that recycling (along with the rest of the entire environmentalism movement) was a Communist Plot. And a lot of other fundies see it as somehow failing to have sufficient faith in God that he will provide a new Earth when we need it.
Antienvironmentalists evidently can come up with all sorts of bizarre rationalizations for being jerks.
I really don't get this anti-environmentalist/anti-recycling thing they've got going. Just the other day the local fundy nut radio host I occasionally listen to was ranting about this. He said, in no uncertain terms, that it was perfectly a-ok to fuck up the entire planet because "god is going to destroy it anyway."
Nutty fuckers...
I don't know why he's so cranky about sewing bags out of old, cast off things. That's conservative, traditional, non-wasteful behavior. It's also making something of value. There are a lot of situations where a simple bag is going to make you a happy man.
Actually I do know why he's pissed, he can't separate the message from the messenger and his children will suffer for his stupidity. What a little bitch.
Yes, unfortunately all these nutty Christians think that our planet will last just long enough for the rapture/end of the world when Jayzuz will call all his people home. These are the same people who don't want any kind of new energy systems being developed because they think there's going to be just enough oil in the ground to last us until the end times.
The sad part is that they think they should be in charge of the world, and they can't see how destructive their beliefs are.
They see environmentalists as part of the left. They're afraid it's a slippery slope; if the kids see what environmentalists are doing as positive, they might start thinking other lefties have good ideas, as well. Today the kids are recycling, and tomorrow, they're voting Democrat or maybe even......ggggggGAY!
They also think God said in the Bible that the earth is here for us to use up as we please and the imminent Rapture makes recycling pointless, and FOX News tells them environmentalists are fools and liars, so, yep...tree-huggers are evil.
Remember, kids, God wants you to act like assholes and destroy everything good in the world! None of this "caring about other people" shit, if it doesn't suit me it's going to hell with all the people who don't agree with me!
My great-uncle from Alabama asked me why I believed in preserving endangered species. I told him I didn't want his great-grandchildren to never see a wild animal other than a rat or a cockroach.
'Course, this is the same guy who believes the solar system is the center of the universe.
Yeah lets not try to reuse things or recycle because we have a limitless supply of everything, ever... And it's not like that garbage has to go anywhere, either. Once you throw it away it vanishes from the face of the Earth! Yay!
ok. So you know you the public system teaches stuff you don't agree with. ok.. That's your right.
And you AGREE to do something with these people... ok...
And NO ONE thinks to audit this group, or research what they do before agreeing to this relationship.
And suddenly it's their fault? Maybe you should check stuff out before doing it. You know. Take some responsibility.
yeah i mean God obviously wanted us to burn oil, pollute the atmosphere, kill all the livestock we need, and just generally fuck the earth up. Conservatives say it so it must be the will of God.
Lock up these chumps in an airtight capsule with a finite supply of air and water and maybe some vegetation to cycle the CO2, and inform them that they're not getting any more.
Shit, while we're at it, let's put 'em in orbit.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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