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June 02, 2008
Move Over, Hitler! Here Come Fritzl and the Global Warming Skeptics!
In what can best be described (kindly) as a complete lack of proportionality, the Bishop of Stafford (U.K.) has accused those who do nothing about global warming of "destroying our children" and being as "guilty as Fritzl."
In his remarks in the pastoral newsletter, the Right Reverend Gordon Mursell devised an analogy as blatantly inappropriate as Chicago's Father Pfleger's claim that Hillary Clinton is driven by white entitlement (which may have been the final straw for Obama that drove him to finally resign from Trinity UCC this weekend.)
The Bishop's analogy turned on the idea that both people who are not doing something about global warming (now known as "climate change," to allow for greater leeway on that "warming" thing) and the monster Josef "I am not a Monster" Fritzl are throwing away their children's future.
Of course, it could be argued that there is a huge difference between remaining skeptical that "global warming" is both man-made and somehow treatable and forcing one's 18-year old daughter (whom one has been raping since she was 12) into a homemade dungeon, keeping her there for 24 years, and siring seven children by her. While living above ground with one's wife. And sneaking some of the children out to live normal lives upstairs. And killing one of the cellar dweller babies that didn't turn out quite so well and secretly incinerating him. And then saying "I am not a monster," because one is finally caught when bringing one of the cellar children to the hospital on her deathbed. Because, after all, he could have killed them all.
One might see a few teensy differences there.
According to the Times report, the Bishop says he did not mean to "shock people unnecessarily."
Of course. Though what he did mean to do--necessarily or otherwise--is not immediately clear.
Posted by Kerry at June 2, 2008 01:26 PM
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Kerry,
For someone who has already stated they don't care much for the future (because you won't be around), I am not surprised by this. And why should I be, you don't see any problem passing trillions of dollars in bills payable to the Chinese to your children. And if you can ignore such a "in your face" problem as that, its not surprising you can't fathom the problems of global warming, despite the countless times the potential disasters it could unleash are thrown in your face.
We can hardly afford a single Katrina type disaster, and we are the richest country on Earth, and yet you are prepared to gamble that global warming isn't real, just so you can keep your wasteful habits today, and because you won't be around to see what your habits unleash on your children.
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at June 3, 2008 01:48 AM
Okay, I'm going to ask this as calmly as I can.
Do you REALLY think that not recycling is the moral equivalent of raping your own daughter for 30 years and keeping her in a dungeon?
(As Amy and Seth would say) "Really? Really, ahmanrah? Really. Huh."
Posted by Kerry at June 3, 2008 08:39 AM
"its not surprising you can't fathom the problems of global warming, despite the countless times the potential disasters it could unleash are thrown in your face."
(As Miss Teen South Carolina would say) Suchas?
"We can hardly afford a single Katrina type disaster, and we are the richest country on Earth, and yet you are prepared to gamble that global warming isn't real, just so you can keep your wasteful habits today, and because you won't be around to see what your habits unleash on your children."
And here's a pretty good bet. My children won't see it either.
Posted by Kerry at June 3, 2008 08:43 AM
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