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Showing Original Post only (View all)Fox News Host: Why Try to Save Earth When Afterlife Is Real? [View all]
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-rachel-campos-duffy-why-save-earth-when-afterlife-is-realNo paywall
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The quest to make the earth a better and more habitable place isnt just a political fight. For one Fox News host, its also sacrilegious.
The hosts of Fox & Friends Sunday were discussing Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamys pledge to be guided by faith if he wins in 2024, noting how religion is often referenced more by Republicans than Democrats. Co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy took that a step further, saying liberals only see Earth as the endgame while conservatives look beyond.
For them, where we live right now, this place, Earth is it, she said. So everythings on the line here for them. They think, as you said, they can perfect this Earth. Those of us who have faith dont believe that, and we believe how we act here determines where we go after. And so we got to behave.
Campos-Duffy also argued that conservatives tried to live within those moral limits, a lifestyle she purported liberals dont abide by. The ends justify the means is sort of the rules for radicals, she said. Thats not how Christians act.
The virtue-signaling did not end there. The hosts discussed how religious movements were fundamental to the country and that human beings were naturally geared toward religion, offering Campos-Duffy the opportunity to equate Christianity and Islam with... climate, invoking language used by Ramaswamy and ex-Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
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So that's why it's ok with them to pollute, drain the resources, cut down rainforests
Deuxcents
Jun 2023
#1
Then why don't they all just kill themselves now and get the good seats next to Jesus in Heaven?
TheBlackAdder
Jun 2023
#75
If you've every wondered why irreligious billionaires get into bed w/ religious nuts via the GQP...
RockRaven
Jun 2023
#6
Ask one of these so-called after-life believers it they are ready to meet their maker ---
erronis
Jun 2023
#8
"conservatives tried to live "within those moral limits," a lifestyle she purported liberals don't"
Takket
Jun 2023
#9
I would think it would lead to complacency and fatalism, as it's designed to do.
Maru Kitteh
Jun 2023
#20
Ok. I didn't re-read all of this, but this seems similar to what I read years ago
Freethinker65
Jun 2023
#56
Rachel Campos-Duffy, "Those of us who have faith don't believe that, and we believe how we act ....
Botany
Jun 2023
#17
The minute I saw the OP title I knew it was Campos-Duffy. She is one of the benchwarmers...
keep_left
Jun 2023
#23
Well, I think that came somewhat later, but the seeds were there, because Campos-Duffy...
keep_left
Jun 2023
#64
I'm so touched. That's some real deep theology there. Exegesis and all that good stuff.
Hekate
Jun 2023
#26
Also, at what point did our ancestors supposedly start receiving afterlives?
Sky Jewels
Jun 2023
#60
This is what I call the "Snopes problem". It's true that Watt didn't make *that* particular...
keep_left
Jun 2023
#43
Oops. I just said basically the same thing. I should have read all the comments first.
LoisB
Jun 2023
#34
And the ultimate irony is that christians have confused which one is better
ExWhoDoesntCare
Jun 2023
#73
Does she realize that those who believe, believe there are TWO places one can go in the afterlife
LoisB
Jun 2023
#33
but many right wing Christians don't have morals, kill directly or indirectly, and support enemies
samsingh
Jun 2023
#39
Then why bother ever seeking medical treatment for anything? The quicker you die and all that.
Solly Mack
Jun 2023
#42
Pastor Says Jesus Hasn't Returned Because People Haven't Donated Enough Cash
keithbvadu2
Jun 2023
#48
thousands of telescopes, both amateur and professional, have scanned the sky for hundreds of years,
vlyons
Jun 2023
#49