• Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    When I grew up evangelical, I was told that it didn’t matter because god was going to renew the earth when he shows up any second now.

    That’s what they believe, that climate change is a distraction and we shouldn’t worry cause god will just medically deal with it

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      2 months ago

      Renew? Like exactly as it was in late Cretaceous?

      That suxs, we all know Earth peaked mid Permian. I want the glory days.

  • uberfreeza@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I know it’s technically a usable defense, but how often is the Act of God defense actually ruled? From what I understand, it rarely works, and you’d have a better chance with any other defense. Has it been successfully used recently?

  • Clent@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    This is true if we ignore monotheism and go with one of the -isms where humanity is god.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      David J. Darling, renown astrophysicist, proposed that we are actually God, capital G. That we evolve into a universal collective God consciousness and reach back through time to create ourselves.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    They have already done that, that’s how capitalism works. No course of action can get back from corps those trillions in profits they made for their shareholders, or make them reverse the damages an order of magnitude bigger than that.

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    2 months ago

    Oh don’t worry. They believe it’s man made, just not in the way you want.