The Pope’s announcement drew a harsh rebuke from the
religious right’s Cornwall Alliance, whose spokesman, Calvin Beisner,
said that regardless of his position as Pope, or intent to help mankind,
“Francis will be opposed by the powerful US evangelical movement.” The
Koch-funded “Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation” had
previously issued a biblical declaration labeling the American
environmental movement a dirty false religion and “unbiblical.” There is
nothing whatsoever in any version of the Christian bible that refers to
the American environmental movement as a religion, false or otherwise,
or contrary to biblical principles. But American evangelicals cannot be
expected to know the contents of an alleged holy book they refuse to
read much less follow.
Beisner also warned the Pope that he had better
“back off” talking about combatting climate change saying that although
“The Catholic church is correct on ethical principles, it has been
misled on science. It follows that the policies the Vatican is promoting
are incorrect. Our position reflects the views of millions of
evangelical Christians in the US” as well as the Koch brothers who fund
the Cornwall Alliance. In fact, as an evangelical group, “specializing
in promoting pollution” has been a funding bonanza for the evangelicals
who issued their own
Christian edict that “to believe in climate change is really an insult
to god and will lead to tyranny.” Leave it to American-style bastardized
Christianity to know what their god considers and insult; unless their
“god” is the Koch brothers’ dirty energy industry money.
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