Merry Christmas! Jesus Wants You to Kill the Earth
Source: Huffington Post ()
For many the “holidays” is just a reason to spend. For evangelicals the season has special meaning: It’s time to celebrate the birth of Jesus, who apparently told us to destroy our planet.
Every year on the day after Thanksgiving, on what we call “Black Friday” (the day the big retail stores start to turn a profit, “in the black̶ 
millions of Americans do what President Bush told us to do after 9/11: line up in the dark before the store opens for super savings and SHOP! It’s an unhappy spectacle: tens of millions of humans manipulated to horde, spend and gorge.
We are vulnerable to being manipulated because of a 100,000-year-old leftover, and now useless, evolutionary quirk that makes us want to horde more, more and more! (It’s the same sort of quirk that makes our bodies store fat when we eat too much, so we won’t die in the lean months of winter that, of course, in the modern world, never arrive, so we just get fatter.) But it isn’t an extra bit of dried deer meat or a few more berries that we horde these days, it’s globe-destroying stuff that we don’t need and that next year, when we replace it all again, will prove that all that stuff we bought last year–flat screen TVs, SUVs, trips to Mexico–never made us happy.
Many people who claim to have a spiritual moral base are worse than anyone when it comes to contributing to the mound of trash burying us and the carbon accumulating that threatens life on earth. In America this group has dominated our politics for the last 30 years. When it comes to helping or harming our planet, many evangelicals believe that there is a conflict between environmentalism and their religious beliefs. They want to know why they should bother with restoring our beleaguered planet. How does that “fit” their religious agenda?
There are plenty of evangelicals who feel positively threatened by even a discussion topics like global warming. They see it as a distraction from evangelism. They have bought into …