Bible Protects Against Global Warming? Energy Chair Hopeful Tells Us So

RE: Rep. John Shimkus Read (Secularism) in Wikipedia as it pertains to Politics and common sense. Keep religion out of politics, all elected offices represent all the people, or they are supposed to........

One small midterm election for America. One giant step backwards for mankind. What's next, a return to the inqisitions ?

First, in answer to Delmis – The Roman Catholic church used these, among other, passages from the Bible to support their “flat earth/center of the universe” edict: Psalm 93:1, 96:10 and 1 Chronicles 16:30, to wit, "the world is firmly established, it cannot be moved." Psalm 104:5 -- "the Lord set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved", and Ecclesiastes 1:5 – “And the sun rises and sets and returns to its place." The Holy Office also had an international group of scholars of theology and cannon law that used these Bible passages (and others) to advise the church leaders that the propositions that the sun is immobile and the center of the universe and that the earth moves around it “foolish and absurd in philosophy,” “erroneous in faith” and “formally heretical.” Whether the Bible says the earth is flat and the center of the universe is obviously based on interpretation. Rob -- I said 99.9% of Christians believed the earth was flat and the center of the universe which did not exclude the people of most of the rest of the world. I didn’t include non-Christians simply because for the most part they had nothing to do with persecution of religious heretics. It is HISTORICAL FACT that the Roman Catholic Church was the persecutor of heretics for hundreds of years. Leaders of kingdoms may have persecuted people but for being heretics only at the instruction of the Roman Catholic Church. FACT -- in February 1616, the Roman Catholic Church (Roman Inquisition) condemned heliocentrism (astronomical model in which the earth and planets revolve around the stationary sun at the center of the solar system) as "false and contrary to Scripture." In 1633, when Galileo defended heliocentrism in his most famous work, “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems,” he was tried by the Roman Inquisition which found Galileo "vehemently suspect of heresy" for having held the opinions that the Sun lies motionless at the centre of the universe, that the Earth is not at its centre and moves, and that this is contrary to Holy Scripture. He was sentenced to formal imprisonment at the pleasure of the Roman Inquisition. On the following day this was commuted to house arrest, which he remained under for the rest of his life. “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems” was banned and publication of any of his works was forbidden, including any he might write in the future. Other heretics of that general time period, who didn’t have friends within the church, were tried and executed – the most famous being mathematician and astronomer Giordano Bruno and philosopher Domenico who was ordered burned at the stake by Pope Clement VIII. I am a Christian, but it serves no useful purpose to ignore (or change) history.

People should wait until Jesus returns before declaring a verdict on so-called "global warming." Besides, most people don't like the cold; they like things warm. Just look at the migration to the sun belt states in the US...

I was not going to weigh into this but would like to make one point. The Bible does not give an age to the earth. It gives and age to the time when God interacts with the earth and the creation of life on the planet. It does not clearly indicate the earth was created from nothing and immediately followed by the creation of life. The whole young age old age earth debate is a red herring in my opinion.

For many centuries 99.9% of Christians believed the earth was flat and the center of the universe because the Bible said so and the Bible is Gods Word. Scientist who disagreed with this dumbness were tortured and killed by the infallible church leaders. Galileo was lucky – he was just locked up. It wasn’t until the mid-1800s that the Pope admitted the world really was round and apologized to those whom the church persecuted for saying otherwise. I’m happy to see that we have elected men and women with the same foresight as the Christians of old to lead our country in these critical times. BTW, "Never again will I curse the ground because of man" – God didn’t say man wouldn’t destroy the earth!!

Whoever said that global warming absolutely means the end of the world? All I've ever heard is that it signals tough times ahead. Pretty shaky reasoning. But then again, people have been using religion for centuries to further their personal agenda.

Is he serious? He is going to be in this committee and do absolutely NOTHING about the state of the environment because the Bible will protect the Earth?!? This is a serious issue; it's not about being loyal to your faith and whatever. The proof of global warming is all around you: climate, glaciers melting,animals dying... This guy has no real evidence to prove the Earth will be ok. He's is going to rely on some vague part of the Book of Genesis.

every time one of these religious topics comes up, I always ask the same question repeatedly. I have yet to get a reply. I will ask again. Mr. Shimkus and other "true" beleivers state that the Bible is the "infallible, unchanging, perfect" word of God. If this is true, I have to ask, "which version of the Bible is the right and true one"? From the oldest known Biblical texts to the current King James version, there are more changes than there are total words. Many of the more popular bible stories have been shown to be from sidebars that the scribes were writing as they made new copies. Translations are all over the place. So again, which is the perfect, infallable, unchanging version of "the truth" that tells us that Shimkus knows what on earth he is talking about?

I am a Christian who believes that God did destroy the earth in a flood. I see ample evidence of that global catastrophe in places like the Grand Canyon and numerous other similar places where a massive flood event that defies our imagination is the best explanation. I also don't believe in "man made" climate change... I believe in God's sovereignty in this area. However, the climate change people, are not claiming that there will be a global flood on the scale of the Noahic flood. They do think the oceans will rise a bit causing massive flooding in low lying areas. So the reassurance that God will not destroy the earth in a worldwide deluge does not apply to global warming or climate change. The global warming argument is full of holes. Scientist can predict tomorrow's weather with a high degree of accuracy. But put that forecast out 1 week and that accuracy plummets. Put the forecast out 2-3 weeks and the forecasters are clueless. Yet we are supposed to believe that carbon dioxide which we exhale and which plants "breathe" is now a pollution that will cause the earth to warm catastrophically over the next "unknown" number of years. To be honest it takes more faith to believe that than in Noah's flood.