Sarah Huckabee Sanders Dismisses Climate Change in Favor of a "Higher Authority"

[NeoGreen]

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/01/23/sarah-huckabee-sanders-dismisses-climate-change-in-favor-of-a-higher-authority/

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Dismisses Climate Change in Favor of a “Higher Authority”
By Hemant Mehta, January 23, 2019

Here’s why you want rational, science-oriented people in politics instead of religious people who think public policy ought to be dictated by their personal myths.

Earlier this week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said in an on-stage interview that we needed to act on climate change before it was too late. She noted that the “world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change,” referencing the tipping point after which scientists say it’ll be too late to address greenhouse gas emissions. She’s right about all that. And she’s especially right to point that out when we have a government that rejects climate science in addition to ignoring science in general.

Case in point? Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the press secretary, who dismissed Ocasio-Cortez’s statement with a reference to God during an interview last night with Sean Hannity.

“Look, I don’t think we’re going to listen to her on much of anything, particularly not on matters we’re gonna leave in the hands of a much, much higher authority, and certainly not listen to the freshman congresswoman on when the world may end,” she said. “We’re focused on what’s happening in the world right now.”

A woman who believes the Rapture will happen any second is ignoring the thing that’s actually going to ruin our planet, all because Jesus said so…

And how many religious moderates will give cover for this, saying she is merely wrong and that faith isn't the problem, something to the effect of "...this is merely faith gone awry."?

Faith is the problem!

[beachbum bob]

1. rapture nonsense

[democratisphere]

2. Jeebus, what a load of crap.

[Nay]

4. It would surprise you to know how many people in this country believe this crap.

After all, climate change is just Jesus's way to bring about the Rapture, which will suck up all the good Christians (them, of course) and leave the rest of us heathens to boil. As usual, they assume they will be fine and those bad people will suffer. Why worry?

[democratisphere]

5. Evolution made a wrong turn with homo sapiens.

Geologic time and evolution is the only chance to correct the problem.

[Nay]

6. I wish it weren't so, but I agree. Any species that gets this much power over Nature

will soon wipe itself out because it can't stop growing and eating up resources. In our case, it's only taken about 200 years.

[samnsara]

3. im so sick of old white men and in this case one thats 3000 yrs past his pull date....

[edhopper]

7. Hillary was right

deplorables.

[2naSalit]

8. Fuck her, and that

crock of poo she pass off as a brain!

[MineralMan]

9. Sounds like the slogan for a kosher hot dog, somehow.

[Lordquinton]

10. Blanket defense of religion gives cover to this kind of thing

Evennif it's just the good parts you want to defend, you are still giving people like Sanders here cover to operate how she is.

It's all connected.

[Duppers]

11. I'm glad AOC knocked her argument down..

Quoting the bible!