{"id":12627,"date":"2020-09-11T11:57:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T15:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12627"},"modified":"2020-09-11T11:57:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T15:57:48","slug":"pious-delusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12627","title":{"rendered":"Pious delusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evangelicals <a href=\"https:\/\/baptistnews.com\/article\/oregon-is-burning-while-most-white-christians-deny-climate-science\/#.X1ubGIspCHt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">continue to deny<\/a> that climate change is real and driven by human activity.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Many Christians, especially white Christians, have embraced <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">denial of climate science<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>For now, <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">the West is burning while most white Christians turn away from the root causes<\/span> of the devastation.<\/p>\n<p>Many white Christians <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">believe God won\u2019t let climate change destroy the earth<\/span>. Others see climate-related disasters as <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">signs of the end times<\/span>. White evangelicals <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">continue to support Donald Trump overwhelmingly<\/span>, even though the Trump administration has tried to roll back more than 100 environmental protection regulations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is why even mainstream religions should not be viewed as harmless eccentricities; they are untrue and affirmatively harmful and should be confronted. Pastor Bubba&#8217;s resolutely ignorance endangers us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evangelicals have difficulty accepting that climate change is real and driven by human activity. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12627\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12627"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12627"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12630,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12627\/revisions\/12630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}