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Tuesday, March 19th, 2024

Evangelicals With Deep Pockets Are Funding Climate Change Denial

Author:     Dan Foster
Source:     The Good Men Project
Publication Date:     March 10, 2024
Link: Evangelicals With Deep Pockets Are Funding Climate Change Denial
Stephan:  

White Evangelicals, as a group, are poorly educated — according to statista only 15% are college graduates — and lower IQ — 34% of Americans have an I.Q. between 98 and 85, 78 is considered retarded. They tend to be fearful and resentful, male dominance-oriented, and racist.  Also remember 54% of Americans can’t read beyond a sentence like: The man walked across the street. Nor are they numerate enough to calculate fractions. They are not literate enough to read Time Magazine, or The Washington Post, nor numerate enough to comprehend a Gallup Organization survey. I feel bad even writing this, but that is what the research tells us. Not everyone, of course, but that is the cohort profile. That’s the evangelical movement population, so it is no surprise they are easily manipulated into climate denial, as this article describes, by oligarchs whose money comes from polluting the earth.

Credit: The Good Men Project

In a baffling display of cognitive dissonance, two “Christian” Texas billionaires, Farris and Dan Wilks, have emerged as the patrons of climate change denialism. Their substantial wealth, built on an industry that contributes substantially to the destruction of the planet, now fuels a movement that contradicts both the scientific consensus and the teachings of their professed faith.

When he’s not pillaging the earth of its natural resources, one of the brothers, Farris Wilks is the pastor of a modest church known as the Assembly of Yahweh in Cisco, Texas… and a freaking rich Pastor, at that.

They have made their fortune from fossil fuel extraction using oil and gas fracking.

Unearthing the Roots of Denial

Fracking, the cornerstone of the Wilks brothers’ fortunes, is a controversial technique used by mining companies for extracting natural gas and oil from deep beneath the Earth’s surface. It involves injecting high-pressure fluids into rock formations, often causing environmental damage through water pollution, habitat disruption, and the release of greenhouse gases.

The industry that has propelled the Wilks brothers into the echelons of the super-wealthy is one of the major contributors to climate change. It’s no secret that […]

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3 Comments

  1. sam crespi on Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 8:36 pm

    I see America as a nation of merchants and armies. I don’t believe that we, on a broad scale, were ever educated in the way of European nations. Of course, in Europe being close geographically had a powerful effect on euro systems and relations. America, or the ‘West’ came out of greater distances and was buit on younger, more raw systems.

  2. Rev. Dean on Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 8:53 pm

    I hope these ministers are not using their status to get away from paying taxes with their mega-millions going to support Trump fascists. Th IS against the law and hope the laws are upheld the way they should be!

    • Rev. Dean on Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 8:55 pm

      P.S.: It was supposed to read This is, not th is; sorry about my keyboard issues.