Limbaugh: "You have to be an atheist to believe in global warming"

[Manix]

Just heard him say it..Unbelievable!!! The dork has really lost it.

[PDJane]

1. well, yes......

atheists are part of the reality-based community. Rush gave up on that a long time ago.

[Hoof Hearted]

37. There is a very large Christian green movement, and it grows larger all the time

Christians who know we are killing the planet and see it as part of their responsibility to do something about it and fight against global warming.

I know that doesn't fit into the neat little boogey-man shaped hole some people want to pound all Christians into, but there it is.

[PDJane]

44. That wasn't a slam against Christianity in geneneral...

It was a slam against the narrow-minded, bigoted, hateful and totally fantastical attitudes of the far right.

[Zavulon]

2. ? No.

I can't believe I'm asking this, but is there a site that has transcripts of his shows? I'm not saying I doubt you, but this is too weird to just accept.

[lpbk2713]

35. Check Mediamatters shortly.

http://mediamatters.org/



They will probably have a reference to diarrhea mouth's latest gaffe.

[Zavulon]

38. Thanks for this.

BTW, I keep looking at your avatar hoping El Drugbo will explode. :)

[lpbk2713]

41. Ever seen this one?

{Click}

[Zavulon]

45. Great. Now I've going to have nightmares. Thanks a lot.

;)

[Az]

3. I cannot objectively refute that statement

I am an atheist that believes in global warming. So unfortunately I am a member of his sited statistic. Gonna need a theist to refute this one.

[LanternWaste]

8. Raises hand...

Raises hand

Heck... it was actually a church conference on environmentalism that finally pushed me into voting the Democratic platform way back when.

But, I'm sure Rush knows my relationship with God better than I do, so who am I to argue... :evilgrin:

[Joffan]

21. Logically you must be an atheist LanternWaste

in Rush's world...

Only atheists believe in global warming ("true by declaration")
therefore
All global warming believers are atheists

You believe in global warming
therefore
You are an atheist

Further:
You claim to be religious
therefore
You are a liar
(or as the playbook puts it, You are one sad lyins SOB <cut off mike>).

Feel better now?

[LanternWaste]

51. Now I feel like the proverbial gray cat....

Now I feel like the proverbial gray cat....

[Chovexani]

30. I'm a Pagan that believes in it.

Hell I believe in an infinite number of gods, so I think that fits the bill. :hi:

[Blue Belle]

46. Rush sites statistics??

I just thought the "statistics" he referred to were laregely pulled from his ass.

[hfojvt]

60. Maybe he could cite chapter and verse

I cannot seem to find an 11th commandment that says "Thou shalt not believe in global warming". Maybe it has something to do with that time when Jesus ran the evolutionists out of the temple.

[Donnachaidh]

4. Did he ever have the anal cyst removed?

Or is he going to blame his insanity on THAT too?

[The Traveler]

6. Do you refer to that ugly bump

that rests upon his shoulders?

[Donnachaidh]

22. nah -- the ugly bump that kept him out of the service

Uhh wait -- now I'm confused...:evilgrin:

[Virginia Dare]

47. Obviously not, because his lips are still moving...n/t

[The Traveler]

5. don't try to make sense

of the right wing denial mongers. They have so many things to deny right now they can't spare the time to think of statements that bear up to even a minute's rational analysis. Trying to understand that mind set is futile and will yield only a mild headache as a result.

All you can is do is marvel at the rich variety of psychosis now on parade as the right wing propaganda machine crumbles under the various burdens of revealed reality. Have a beer, kick back, relax, and enjoy the show.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Like that's a bad thing . . . .

[Skidmore]

9. Gee. isn't a major climate change event described as

part of the eschatalogical mythology of fundamentalism?

[yellowcanine]

50. Yep. Earth gets burned up with fire and brimstone. Can't get much warmer than that.

[Gregorian]

10. Or a Christian who has never read the bible.

This place is ours to fuck up. And no one is going to save us.

If you fall down a well, I don't care how hard you pray, Jesus isn't going to come and lift you out.

Almost no one realizes that we are the ones who are going to have to take care of this place. This is not the Garden of Eden. In fact, just the opposite. The tendency here is for bad things to happen. We actually have to get off our asses and work to make this a good place. We have to care about each other, and we have to care about the planet.

Get off your ass, Rush, and do something. Don't just sit there spouting your garbage.

You're garbage, Rush.

[gatorboy]

11. Here's the thing about that statement.

And it's one of the main reasons the fundies aren't getting behind this. Now based on what we know about global warming, if it gets worse, the waters will rise dramatically. But as far as Rush's audience is concerned, we've already had our great flood (See Noah's Ark) and supposedly should never have another.

[Marr]

12. You'd have to be an idiot to believe Rush Limbaugh.

About anything.

[rateyes]

13. And, all this time, I thought Al Gore was a Baptist...

raised a Southern Baptist, at that.

Rush is a damned un-phony idiot.

[Emit]

14. I don't believe that, but the reverse might be true.

"You have to be a radical fundamentalist to not believe in global warming..."? :shrug:

[Contrary1]

15. Looks like Limpball is running for all three

of KO's worst person in the world awards today.

[rhiannon55]

16. ...to 'believe in' global warming...

Notice how the fundies have injected 'belief' into an empirically-understood phenomenon. As if acknowledging the reality of global warming is on par with belief in an invisible deity. What morons!

[Ganja Ninja]

17. You'd have to be a moron to listen to Rush and agree with the ...

bullshit that comes out of his mouth. The first time I heard him I couldn't stand him and I really wasn't even paying attention. His whining tone was all I needed to hear.

[Beelzebud]

18. Drugs are bad. mmmmkay?

[ProfessorGAC]

52. Great Post, Bud

Had me laughing hard in my office. Sitting here by myself, laughing for 10 full seconds.

Good one!
The Professor

[originalpckelly]

19. You have to be an idiot to listen to Limbaugh.

[malaise]

20. Maybe he should obtain a copy of the PBS

program with the mountain people fighting for their rights.

[Blue Belle]

49. Or "Is God Green?" done by Bill Moyers...

That show focuses specifically on the split Conservative Christians have over the environment.

[Hobarticus]

23. "You have to be a dog to tie shoelaces..."

And other nonsense from a drug-addled asshat.

[NMMNG]

24. Atheist: You have to be a drug-addled idiot not to believe in global warming

Or perhaps a fundamentalist nutjob.

[Warren DeMontague]

31. Yeah. That's an insult to some very fine drug-addled idiots I know.

None of them are that stupid.

[NMMNG]

42. I'm sorry. You're absolutely right.

I apologize to all drug-addled idiots who posses far more intelligence than Rush will ever fathom.

[Quantess]

25. Why? Because Jesus would never allow global warming?

His statement doesn't make any sense.

[Virginia Dare]

48. I challenge you to find one that does...n/t

[City Lights]

26. In Limbaughworld, the Pope is an atheist.

:shrug:

The Vatican yesterday added its voice to a rising chorus of warnings from churches around the world that climate change and abuse of the environment is against God's will, and that the one billion-strong Catholic church must become far greener.

At a Vatican conference on climate change, Pope Benedict urged bishops, scientists and politicians - including UK environment secretary David Miliband - to "respect creation" while "focusing on the needs of sustainable development".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,2066711,00.html

[Tyler Durden]

59. Everyone KNOWS Catholics aren't REAL CHRISTIANS.

Rush will tell us THAT too.

[blondeatlast]

27. MY global warming believing pastor is gonna be so pissed when I tell him

I'm atheist...

What a freaking dolt that Limbaugh is. :puke:

[Kool Kitty]

28. And you have to be an asshole to listen to Rush.

[Warren DeMontague]

29. Or, to put it another way, "God Hates Facts"? nt

[blondeatlast]

36. ...

:rofl:

[CabalPowered]

32. You have to pop some serious pills to not believe in GW

I wonder if he's still buying in bulk?

:shrug:

[Vinca]

33. Maybe Harkin is right about Rush being back "on the drugs." nt

[Richard Steele]

62. That stuff has a really HIGH relapse rate.

Statistically, given the HUGE amounts he was using, it's
pretty unlikely he ISN'T riding that horse again.

[Chovexani]

34. I know I'll regret asking this, but...

...what was the explanation behind that?

[tom_paine]

39. Actually, I think it might be God's way of eliminating the stupid species before they grow

and destroy something really big.

Consider: almost all of our bodily functions that work to keep us alive are NEGATIVE FEEDBACK LOOPS, where excess is recovered to damp the increasing oscillations of a given system

I hope I am expalining this correctly, I always get these concets a little muddied, but the larger issue of negative vs. positive feedback loops remains.

while it now appears that most of the earth's environmental systems are POSITIVE FEEDBACK LOOPS, which promote runaway reactions because the feedback increases the oscillation of the system.

Could this not be God's Test For Species? Species too stupid and shortsignted to notice this, are not around for very much longer, geologically-speaking, which seems a high probability at this moment for h. sapiens.

Just something to think about.

[renie408]

40. If I was a Christian, I would be pissed. n/t

[Cha]

43. You have to be

the devil not to.

[Initech]

53. Yeah, and the pill-popping asshole is an example of what Christianity should be?

:eyes:

[Prophet 451]

54. Wow, just wow

I'm a theist who accepts global warming is a) happening and b) largely a result of human actions.

But then, I'm not a Christian so, in Rush's world, I don't count.

[KiraBS]

55. Someone forgot to tell my Priest that ...

Just an hour ago he used Saint Francis Of Assisi's example for cutting back and looking after
the planet. He will be surprised to learn he is an Atheist....

[yardwork]

56. Another issue that is far more important than whining about Hillary.

[Lorien]

57. Well, I think that my Christian Missionary mom would have to disagree

as would most members of her southern Baptist Church (hardly a bunch of liberals) who hold regular "Living Green as Stewards of God's Earth" meetings.


Rush is a total tool.

[More Than A Feeling]

58. This has been another episode of "Non Sequitur Theatre."

[Major Hogwash]

61. Why is he still on the air? They fired Imus for less than this!

Or is it because advertisers just love Rush?
I can't believe they support this asshole.

I'm not going to buy a damned thing from them for advertising on his program.

[sakabatou]

63. .

[usaftmo]

64. If that's true...

then I'm proud to be an atheist!
:crazy:

[robertpaulsen]

65. Really?! Pat Robertson converted to atheism?! Thanks for the newsflash, Rush!

Pat Robertson: I’m ‘A Convert’ On Global Warming, ‘It Is Getting Hotter’
Yesterday on the 700 Club, evangelical Pat Robertson declared himself “a convert” on global warming. Robertson said that he has “not been one who believed in global warming in the past.” But now, Robertson said, he believes “it is getting hotter and the ice caps are melting and there is a build up of carbon dioxide in the air.” Robertson implored, “we really need to do something on fossil fuels.” Watch it:



Robertson talked briefly about global warming again on today’s edition of the 700 club. Alternet has the video.

Today’s transcript:

They are defending the society. But I tell you stay in doors ladies and gentleman. Stay cool. Get fans or whatever. And the poor, they need emergency fans and ice to cool down — the number of people dead. I have not been one who believed in the global warming. But I tell you, they are making a convert out of me as these blistering summers. They have broken heat records in a number of cities already this year and broken all-time records and it is getting hotter and the ice caps are melting and there is a build up of carbon dioxide in the air. We really need to address the burning of fossil fuels. If we are contributing to the destruction of the planet we need to do manage about it.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/03/robertson-global-warming/


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[LibDemAlways]

66. Limpballs has to be one of the phoniest

"believers" out there. Look how he lives his life. Spewing hate. Slandering people. Telling lie upon lie - and accepting a big fat paycheck for it.

No, Rush, you don't need to be an athiest to believe in global warming - only grounded in reality.

[opihimoimoi]

67. Don't look for me when they ask for Sandbaggers to save his Fla house

when them high waters start to come close....he can make his own dike...