{"id":13098,"date":"2021-02-24T10:39:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T15:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13098"},"modified":"2021-02-24T10:39:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T15:39:32","slug":"evangelicals-affirmatively-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13098","title":{"rendered":"Evangelicals: Affirmatively dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Texas is the poster child for what happens when you turn everything into politics \u2014 including science, Mother Nature and energy \u2014 and try to maximize short-term profits over long-term resilience in an era of extreme weather. The Mars landing is the poster child for letting science guide us and inspire audacious goals and the long-term investments to achieve them.<\/p>\n<p>The Mars mind-set used to be more our norm. The Texas mind-set has replaced it in way too many cases. Going forward, if we want more Mars landings and fewer Texas collapses \u2014 what\u2019s happening to people there is truly heartbreaking \u2014 we need to take a cold, hard look at what produced each.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/23\/opinion\/us-politics-texas-mars.html?action=click&#038;module=Opinion&#038;pgtype=Homepage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas Friedman<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Friedman nails something I&#8217;ve been thinking about a lot during the past week: the Evangelical Right are driving a lot of the science denial in America &#8212; and they aren&#8217;t merely wrong; their resolute ignorance is dangerous, and in our mental filing system they ought to be classed with the White Supremacists and all the other loopy misanthropes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas is the poster child for what happens when you turn everything into politics \u2014 including science, Mother Nature and energy \u2014 and try to maximize short-term profits over long-term resilience in an era of extreme weather. The Mars landing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13098\">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\/13098"}],"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=13098"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13102,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13098\/revisions\/13102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}