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freshwest

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3. It breaks my heart to think of what we're losing to their insane greed and lust of the endtimes.
Wed Nov 6, 2013, 10:13 PM
Nov 2013

Last edited Wed Nov 6, 2013, 11:34 PM - Edit history (1)

I know some people that gleefully report every ecological horror story as God's Will to punish the sinners and herald the Second Coming. It's what Al Gore spoke of in Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit.

There have been many lies spread about his book by those who never read it. The quote I refer to on Page 263 is critical of some Christians whose "prophetic vision of the apocalypse is used as an excuse for abdicating their responsibility to be good stewards of God's creation."

http://www.snopes.com/language/document/earthbalance.asp

It made the rightists hate him with 'the heat of a thousand blazing suns' as the saying goes. Their vision is not ours.

Here is another favorite video of what America was and should be:



This is what I think of you:



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