DFP columnist skewers GOPer religionauts seeking House leadership posts

[Bozita]

Posted: Dec. 2, 2010

An inconvenient truth comes in handy for grandstanding
BY BRIAN DICKERSON
DETROIT FREE PRESS COLUMNIST


The good news is that at least one Republican hoping to assume a key leadership post in the next Congress is ready to concede that global warming is more than a figment of Al Gore's imagination.

The bad news is that the same congressman said he believes any catastrophic consequences of climate change are a problem for God, not Washington.

Illinois Republican John Shimkus says a congressional fact-finding trip to Greenland convinced him that climate change is being exacerbated by the ever-expanding consumption of fossil fuels. Most environmental scientists forecast that the steady rise of global temperatures will boost sea levels to new highs in the coming decades, threatening coastal cities in the U.S. and other western nations with inundation.

But Shimkus said he believes assurances provided in the Book of Genesis make it clear that catastrophic climate change scenarios are overblown.

"I do believe in the Bible as the final word of God," he told interviewers who asked him to amplify theological remarks he made in an environmental subcommittee hearing last year. "And I do believe that God said the Earth would not be destroyed by a flood."

Shimkus emerged as a leading contender for the chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee earlier this year after the committee's ranking Republican, Rep. Joe Barton of Texas, inexplicably chose the forum of a congressional hearing on the gulf oil spill to apologize for the Obama administration's shabby treatment of oil giant BP.



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[BrklynLiberal]

1. Well...if THE BIBLE says so.................

:crazy: :silly:

[Jim__]

2. "... God said the Earth would not be destroyed by a flood."

I guess it's OK if it's just afew Pacific Islands that get destroyed by flood. :eyes:

[Angry Dragon]

3. If his god is going to take care of things

then his god should have run for office and not him

[pangaia]

4. Voice of God.

"Dear people of earth. This is God speaking. This man is a lunatic. Somebody do something with him. He does not speak for me. There already was a flood. It's ancient history."

Your friend,
God