Bummer: Thinking About Thanksgiving, Most Religious People Aren’t Concerned With Hotcoldwetdry

And why should they be, when we see crazy cult stuff like this every time it snows?

Food for thought at Thanksgiving: Most religious people consider the Earth sacred and believe God gave us a duty to protect our oceans, forests and clean air

Most U.S. adults — including a solid majority of those identifying as Christians and large numbers of people who follow other major religious traditions — consider the Earth sacred and believe God gave humans a duty to care for its oceans, forests and breathable air, according to a new survey.

That view doesn’t necessarily translate to an active role in limiting climate change, however. And while politics can explain the bulk of the reason, there are other factors at work.

Pew Research Center survey out Thursday finds that highly religious Americans (those who say they pray each day, regularly attend religious services and consider religion very important in their lives) are far less likely than other U.S. adults to express concern about warming temperatures around the globe.

Perhaps they just aren’t interested in joining a cult based less on science and more on political power?

The Pew survey reveals several reasons why religious Americans tend to be less concerned about climate change. First and foremost: politics: The main driver of U.S. public opinion about the climate is political party, not religion.

Highly religious Americans are more inclined than others to identify with or lean toward the Republican Party, and Republicans tend to be much less likely than Democrats to believe that human activity (such as burning fossil fuels CL00, +0.19% to heat and cool homes, ship in-demand goods, or take to the country’s vast highway system) is warming the Earth. And, most of these respondents, even those tying humans to climate change, do not necessarily believe that climate change ranks as a serious problem, Pew said.

It could be that they see that they see the Democrats loathing the religious, denigrating them, trying to limit their ability to practice their religion, hence, they lean Republican. They see a political party that loves to kill the unborn. And worshiping Doing Something about ‘climate change’, which requires subservience to the State.

Climate change does not seem to be a major area of focus in U.S. congregations. Among all U.S. adults who say they attend religious services at least once or twice a month, just 8% say they hear a great deal or quite a bit about climate change in sermons.

Why would they? They’re there to hear the Word of God, the teachings of Jesus, not a state pushed cult.

(CBS News) Those surveyed who said “they pray each day, regularly attend religious services and consider religion very important in their lives,” were much less likely to be concerned about rising temperatures, in comparison to non-religious Americans, or Americans of non-Christian religions, Pew found. And only 8% of those who identified as highly religious said they were “very concerned” about climate change.

Just 8%. They have other concerns. Homelessness, feeding the hungry, giving shelter, and so much more, things they can do something about, not cult beliefs that require them to give up their Christian beliefs and worship government.

On the other hand, the study found that “members of non-Christian religions and people who do not identify with any religion…consistently express the highest levels of concern about climate change.” Nine in 10 atheists surveyed said the Earth is getting warmer, mostly due to human activity.

Yet, those same atheists tend to do almost nothing in their own lives to reduce their carbon footprints. And little to actually help their fellow man.

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12 Responses to “Bummer: Thinking About Thanksgiving, Most Religious People Aren’t Concerned With Hotcoldwetdry”

  1. st says:

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  2. Elwood P. Dowd says:

    Teach typed: They (deeply religious Americans) have other concerns. Homelessness, feeding the hungry, giving shelter, and so much more, things they can do something about, not cult beliefs that require them to give up their Christian beliefs and worship government.

    Really? Deeply religious Americans are concerned about homelessness, feeding the hungry and giving shelter?

    Understanding global warming and “things they can do something about” in slowing warming requires NO ONE to “give up their Christian beliefs and worship government”.

    And on learning that 9 of 10 atheists are concerned about global warming Teach types, risibly: Yet, those same atheists tend to do almost nothing in their own lives to reduce their carbon footprints. And little to actually help their fellow man.

    Of course, Teach cites no evidence supportive of his claims, and ignores evidence to the contrary.

    • James Lewis says:

      Dear Elwood:

      “… consider religion very important in their lives) are far less likely than other U.S. adults to express concern about warming temperatures around the globe…”

      As usual, you don’t understand the basics.

      We understand that God created. He also gave us fee will.

      There’s also so that “Go forth and multiply”

      “Genesis 1:26-28
      Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

      Not a word about keeping it like it was.

      • Elwood P. Dowd says:

        Are you saying your opposition to global warming has a religious rather than scientific basis?

        Should the US and other nations base their policies on a religious text from over 2000 years ago?

        Do you believe that understanding science is in contradiction to God’s order “to fill the Earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the Earth”?

        • david7134 says:

          Opposition to climate change stems from the obvious effort to set up a central totalitarian government that is completely contrary to our concept of freedom. Then there is the fact that after giving up these freedoms, little would accomplish a thing in terms of climate. Then there is the fact that every aspect of the so called science associated with this hoax is corrupted. There is climate change as there has been through the entirety of history. It has nothing to do with fossil fuels. And, what is wrong with climate change?

        • James Lewis says:

          Dear Elwood:

          No, I’m saying that there is no scientific basis for the claims made by the idiots supporting the thieves and that God did His job and stepped aside a goodly while ago.

          And in case you don’t understand….. MMGW is a theory, as is religion..

  3. Hairy says:

    Bummer !
    The percent of religious people was 78% in 2007 it is now down to 63%,
    It will hit 50% in 2035.or sooner as old people die off
    Old people Find comfort in religion as their own mortality becomes reality

    • James Lewis says:

      Dear Hairy:

      Yes you will.

    • david7134 says:

      John,
      Buddhism is a very relaxing religion, or philosophy, why have you given it up? It would do so much to sooth your troubled mind. But your words do not show elements of a good Buddhist.

    • L.G.Brandon!, L.G.Brandon! says:

      H, you once again are lying. The percent of religious people as you so foolishly frame it is only the religions you consider. You are a very deeply religious guy. Your religion is Climate Change. When you claim “religious people” are you counting Jews, Moslems, Hindus, Mormon, Scientologists, etcetera? or do you consider only Christians as “religious people. How about you? You worship at the feet of your god Gaia or perhaps pedo joe I’m not sure but either way you are as Eric Hoffer once proclaimed the quintessential True Believer.

      I have found that since the collapse of the Democrat Party and it’s complete takeover by a group of feral Nazi’s, commies and anarchists it had literally become a religion rather than a political party. You guys don’t support policies you worship agendas. You don’t pray, you recite mantra. You don’t preach, you repeat narrative. It is your religion. You all say the same exact words as a Christian would say the Lord’s Prayer. Watch the leftists on the news as 10 different fools recite the same crap on 10 channels simultaneously. It’s definitely a religion.

  4. JimS says:

    I suspect religious people (as a former one myself) don’t buy the connection between caring for the Earth…. i.e clean air, water etc., and the phony global warming cult. While I can get behind eliminating toxic dumping, and the like… even electric cars once the battery tech becomes viable, and going nuclear; you can forget about ruining the economy just to save off a fraction of a degree off a “global temperature” that no one knows what it should be, or considering the sloppy measurements, isn’t really known.

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