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Manmade global warming is one such issue, and our stubborn refusal to
acknowledge it for what it is —a frighteningly real phenomenon and the
shameful byproduct of human greed—makes us look like total idiots to
those with whom we would share the good news of Christ.
Manmade
(as opposed to naturally occurring) global warming has been so
thoroughly, unquestionably, irrefutably documented that arguing its
existence with an entrenched climate denier is like trying to convince a
toddler that the sky is blue when he is absolutely certain it is pink.
In short: a total waste of time.
Despite the tonnage of evidence,
an astonishing number of evangelicals choose (quite willfully) to
believe that manmade global warming is nothing but a "liberal hoax,"
apparently designed to undercut oil company profits. Which begs the
question: Why would anyone wish ill on oil companies? They're so
lovable.
The larger question, of course, is: Why would anyone
believe the pseudo-scientific snake oil put out by climate deniers like
U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla), who famously declared global warming to
be the "greatest hoax ever”? And how, in Heaven's name, can an educated
man like Inhofe believe his own drivel, if indeed he does?
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