Bryan Fischer: ‘Enormously insensitive’ to hurt God’s feelings by not using oil

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story

Bryan Fischer: ‘Enormously insensitive’ to hurt God’s feelings by not using oil
By David Edwards
Friday, November 30, 2012 13:53 EST

Bryan Fischer, the director of issues analysis of the conservative fundamentalist American Family Association, on Thursday told a so-called “expert” who denies climate change that not using God’s fossil fuels would be like “crushing” someone’s feelings by rejecting their birthday present.

The Cornwall Alliance’s Calvin Beisner, who has previously said that believing in climate change “is an insult to God,” explained on Thursday that the Bible said it was also very rude to not use oil, coal and natural gas.

“The wicked and lazy master was the one who buried his talent in the ground and didn’t do anything to multiply it,” Beisner explained. “That’s essentially what those who say we need to stop using oil, coal and natural gas are telling us to do. Just leave those resources buried in the ground, rather than pulling them out and multiplying their value for human benefit.”

Fischer likened the situation to a birthday present he was given at the age of six.

“I opened up a birthday present that I didn’t like, and I said it right out, ‘Oh, I don’t like those,’” the radio host recalled. “And it just crushed — and the person that gave me gift was there. You know, I just kind of blurted it out, ‘I don’t like those.’ And it just crushed that person. It was enormously insensitive of me to do that.”


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[W T F]

1. Uh...yeah.....Does he feel the same way about Marijuana?

[Enrique]

11. great point

[wordpix]

57. lol, thanks

[UBCchuck]

65. I always figured

God is looking down and thinking I gave you people a plant you can make clothes, plastics, building material, and to take care of several maladies, and you outlaw it...you're stupid.

[pepperbear]

111. LOL! director of issues analysis = doctor of spin.....

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whatever comes through the door, his job is to make it fit their world view.

I really think they're bored.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. "Teh Stoopid" burns bright in that one, grasshopper.

[SCVDem]

3. And they wonder why

intelligent people turn away from religion.

[olegramps]

63. These people have done more damage to Christianity than any atheist has ever done.

[SCVDem]

73. Very true

Atheists don't attack religion unless religion oversteps its bounds.

Notice how we never hear anything out of the majority of beliefs in this country. That's the way it should be.

Live your life and leave me the hell alone!

Peace on earth.

[quakerboy]

103. I have often wondered

there are three sets of people who seem to rise to leadership in christian churches. There are some genuinely good people who do amazing good. But there are also true believers who often enough do enormous harm. And there are sociopaths who wear a mantle of Christianity for the power they can gain from it. Ive often wondered which of the latter two do the church more harm.

[elias7]

71. Should intelligent people turn from marriage because divorce exists?

Or from television because of Jersey Shore?

Or from Scotland because not everyone is a true Scotsman?

[Ilsa]

101. Oh, that's a good one! nt

[truthisfreedom]

4. While he ignores the destruction of Earth. One hundred is the average IQ. That means half of the

population are like him. Neanderthals.

[longship]

5. What a fucking idiot!

We need to rid our country of the influence of utter ignorance. Especially these mindless church people. I am sick to death of them.

[The Magistrate]

6. One Would Think, Ma'am, An Omnipotenet Lord Of the Universe Could Handle It....

[kimmylavin]

9. Exactly!

I always wonder why an all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful god, who not only created the universe, but knows all of its secrets...
Can (as interpreted by his followers here on earth) be so petty.

[Mnemosyne]

25. Because man created God in his own image.

[Judi Lynn]

16. So it would seem. Insiders seem to know the Almighty just gets the Almighty's nose out of joint

from time to time! Odd, isn't it?

[center][/center]

[BlueStreak]

29. I hear that God is fighting a problem with depression

ever since he saw that we were on to his little "dark matter / dark energy" trick.

We weren't supposed to discover that for another 1000 years.

[Dash87]

60. Or would already know that said insult was going to happen.

It's God after all. Kind of hard to offend a being that already knows the offense is going to happen.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

94. One would have thought so, Sir; but when one c onsiders that the Guy is always demanding

to be flattered..... maybe he's got a little control issue or two.

[patrice]

7. My goodness what a puny little weak God, who can be hurt/disappointed by little old me!!!

These people constantly think they know the absolute and ultimate definition of things such as: "resources" and "value" and "human benefit" and if you don't agree with them, you're anti-all-of-that.

They are those to whom Nietzsche was referring when he said "god is dead" because we/such-people have shrunk her down to a bite size quid pro quo and killed everything but that.

[Rain Mcloud]

8. ....................And no more maturbation,guys!

Oh wait...........gift from God................................WTF?.......................................Head..............hurting............grwbl...grwbl....bbbbb....boo...boo...pfffffft

[BlueStreak]

30. It is OK to masturbate if you are driving a Hummer

(assuming you can find your tiny penis in that instance.)

[DollarBillHines]

33. Guys who drive Hummers don't need to masturbate

The Hummer does it for them.

[Rain Mcloud]

38. Hummers come equipped..........

with penile tweezers?

[Liberal Veteran]

10. Apparently, he has the same outlook on lead and mercury. -nt

[Swede Atlanta]

12. OMG, they are going off the deep end.....

So just because oil and fossil fuels are there as a result of NATURAL processes that may or may not have been set in motion by a Supreme Creator, we are compelled to use them or insult this God? Is God that sensitive?

And we have to use them not to offend this God even if using them will result in a catastrophe of astronomic proportions including starvation, death and the slow death of the planet?

[gejohnston]

13. he should read Isaiah 55:8-9

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," says the Lord. "For as the heavens are higher than the Earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."

Why wouldn't god be offended if we don't use the sun and wind?

[hrmjustin]

19. +1

[JoePhilly]

24. Blasphemer!!!!!

The sun and wind are of the Devil!!!

[NCarolinawoman]

42. Heh. I immediately was thinking the obvious: Sun and Wind,

Interesting that the oil is hidden far under the earth's crust. Maybe so greedy ignorant people would have a hard time finding it?

[tanyev]

14. Whatever would God do if Bryan Fischer weren't there to protect him?

[caseymoz]

15. The Great Goon in the Sky is very unhappy.

He is very hurt that you won't accept His gift of poisonous sludge and rotten wood. You say you don't want to poison the earth and live in a weather beaten hell? You're making my friend, the God Goon, very sad at the notion. He's sensitive. Ask Pharaoh, and twenty other nations, including His chosen one how sensitive He is.

What? Scare you? We're not trying to scare you. What feels like feels is the Great Goon's love. You don't want to insult his love by calling it fear, do you? Look how sad you've made him . . .

[Dakota Flint]

17. And this folks is why it is never a good idea to eat lead paint chips.

[Dont call me Shirley]

18. Or the shiny rolly balls from the broken glass thermometer

[Judi Lynn]

28. So sad, isn't it?

You pay later for the momentary thrill!

[center]

[/center]

[Squinch]

51. Wait...that photo....Jesus was Glenn Campbell???

I'm really confused...

[dorkulon]

20. God, please make this man shut up. /nt

[freshwest]

21. This repuke shill really knows what he's talking about!

http://www.allhatnocattle.net/8-17-10_republicans_say_obama_is_insensi.htm

[johnnyrocket]

22. This guy is the enemy. He's part of the problem, certainly not the solution.

[starroute]

23. Somebody should throw 1 Corinthians 13:11 at him

When I was a child, I spake as a child,
I understood as a child, I thought as a child:
but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

[NEOBuckeye]

96. +1

The sad thing is, a lot of kids are more aware and mature that he appears to be.

[2on2u]

26. I guess you really can't make this shit up..... perhaps he would like to explain to God what

happened to the ice sheets and why we are going to see temperatures of perhaps 150 degrees on God's earth. The species that will disappear might also interest the great sky wizard.

[Squinch]

27. God's reply:"I'm OK with your not using oil, it's those chastity pledges that really cheese me off."

[1StrongBlackMan]

31. Uhmmm ...

Calvin, you might want to re-read that parable.

“The wicked and lazy master was the one who buried his talent in the ground and didn’t do anything to multiply it,” Beisner explained.

First, the parable is a parable. And it pretty much represents the exact opposite of exploiting anything to the point of exhaustion and world destroying effects.

But secondly, the one that buried his talents, was a servant; not a master.
Matthew 25: 24-30

Why does this sojourning guy know the Bible better than most of those constantly quoting it?

[tama]

113. Yep

And when I read that parable not long ago, I started to wonder how could anyone sane interpret it considering the greedy and murderous imperialist master a good guy. If God is made as the image of man, and the master of that parable is supposed to represent God, woe...

[L0oniX]

32. Bat Shit!

[revmclaren]

34. And would not using Atomic bombs with 'God Given' Uranium

also be an insult to God! Crazy Teapublican Religious fanatics. Wake up and smell the Carbon Dioxide!

[hrmjustin]

35. Welcome to DU!

[Turbineguy]

36. Yes, if we didn't use oil

God would just have to sit there in his gauchely decorated palace and pout.

[Judi Lynn]

83. A lesser god would pitch a fit! We are too unworthy to even grovel begging for mercy! n/t

[NoGOPZone]

37. Evidently, not using one's brain isn't insulting to God. nt

[LongTomH]

39. This guy insults God's intelligence as well as ours!

[Locut0s]

40. What's it like to be paid to just sit back and spew moronic nonsense and hate?

[DRoseDARs]

41. Bitch please. I'll do u 1 better: How do you think God feels about fundamentalists shunning Science?

ad infinitum...



And before someone gets on about it, here: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bitch%20Please

[Chemisse]

43. You mean this is not the Onion?

Well I bet God is really crushed that we are not using the solar energy that He sends to us every single day. And the wind He blows over our hilltops is just going to waste. He must really be sniffling about that.

[hatrack]

44. Bryan Fischer and his God can both go fuck themselves

This is possibly the STUPIDEST FUCKING THING that I've ever heard in my life.

[Hestia]

45. And just think - all that oil, coal and natural gas was created in 6,000 years!

That's real magic - thinking - do I have to use it -

[Squinch]

53. I'm not GOING to think of that! I'm not a scientist, man!

[AAO]

46. I'll think about it, but I'm not making any guarantees!

[ReRe]

47. This man belongs in....

.... a mental institution. Period.

[gtar100]

70. And yet, what he says gets broadcast out through our media instead.

How weird is that?

[ReRe]

78. It is very effin' weird...

...that's what it is. They have channels for that stuff and that's where it belongs. IMHO.

[Mz Pip]

48. God gave us the sun and wind, too.

Why is that dirty smelly gooey toxic crap more special to God?

[JackRiddler]

49. I didn't think the Big G was so sensitive!

[Squinch]

54. I know! Who knew deities could be such weenies!

[madrchsod]

50. in my humble opinion it`s not god`s planet

it`s mother earth`s and she`s really pissed off about what those human parasites are doing to her.

[TDale313]

52. ^^^ this^^^

[lunasun]

55. The stupid is just not going to stop is it???

[Kalidurga]

56. Poe

That is all. No one is really this stupid. This guy is laughing his butt off thinking about all the people that will believe he actually believes what he is saying.

[wordpix]

58. "The wicked and lazy master"---who's that? Rush? Bush? Cheney?

I'm confused

[Zambero]

59. Does he mean that 6.000 year old oil?

It's possibly much "younger" oil since it took at least a century or two to go from the extinct plant species in the Garden of Eden to the actual fossil fuel oil now headed for refineries (Praise the Lord). At any rate USE IT ALL UP, ASAP, lest God be disappointed!

:sarcasm"

[Initech]

61. Bryan Fischer is what you'd get...

If you put Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Neil Cavuto, Pat Robetson, and the Coast to Coast AM guy in a blender.

[Zambero]

64. Throw Ralph Reed into this unsavory mix

That would cover the "cash in with God" bases.

[Initech]

76. And who's that "god wants you to be rich" TV preacher? Add him.

[Historic NY]

62. And so it came to pass that God said drill here, drill there, drill every where...

I've give you oil from the dinosaurs, that I once have ridden.

[Bette Noir]

66. It's also enormously insensitive not to drink God's own hemlock.

[a la izquierda]

67. I wish I could convey the sound...

of Bart Simpson-esque laughter via the interwebs. Bwahahahaha

[ThoughtCriminal]

68. I'm beginning to think that fundamentalists are God's trolls

Which is more likely?

[Solly Mack]

69. ROFLMAO

[Botany]

72. The man is a dangerous loon

I just did a google search on him

The man really needs a good old fashioned ass kicking ...... it is OK to kidnap children
of gay or lesbian parents????

[Posteritatis]

74. What (nt)

[ellie]

75. Whatever you say you crazy loon!

[FlaGranny]

77. What these idiots never

seem to understand about their god's gifts is the most important one of all - a brain. What do they think god gave them a brain for? Why did god make them able to think, explore, and invent?

[ZombieHorde]

79. This is why we should all use meth.

Not using meth makes God cry.

[awoke_in_2003]

80. This god fellow...

is a mighty sensitive chap.

[yellowcanine]

81. This is some weird shit thinking.

[cynzke]

82. Toss away like a used tissue!

Several years ago I saw Jerry Falwell explain its alright to use up our resources because when Jesus returns God will give us a whole new world with beautiful flowers and everything will be ten times more beautiful and plentiful.

[okasha]

84. How about hurting God's feelings

by not using their brains?

[daleo]

85. The same is true of renewable power

Ignoring these would hurt God's tender feelings too.

His real god is the fossil fuel industry's profits.

[bucolic_frolic]

86. Merrily We Roll Along .....

Looney Bin for those guys!

How do they know God has feelings, and how do they
know that God's feelings have been revealed to them?

Absolutely delusional!!

[Permanut]

87. I'm with Hatrack on this one..

This is one of the stupidest things ever said, in the history of the universe, in any language. There should be a picture of this guy in every dictionary by the word "stupid".

[blackspade]

88. uh, what?

These guys are so stupid.

[enki23]

89. Holy shit, it's like he had his mental output replaced by random combinations of Onion headlines.

[and-justice-for-all]

90. Fuck the AFA...

as far as I am concerned they are domestic terrorist.

[undeterred]

91. If God made the earth only 6000 years ago

how did he give us the petroleum products which come from the remains of prehistoric plants and animals... I'm so confused. Was it the remains of plants and animals from some other planet?

[marble falls]

92. If G*d had wanted us to have that oil why did he make it so damn hard to extract???????

[triplepoint]

93. What if God Drove a HumVee?

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-- Enjoy!

[Judi Lynn]

112. Enjoyed so much the chance to see the 1st two all over again, & the last one for the first time.

Thank you for taking the time to share these outstanding videos here.

We need to hear material like this far more than the opportunities we are given, reflecting time spent thinking things through and courage in daring to voice them in public in a country where we have "religious" people with murderous impulses.

Definitely enjoyed.

[NEOBuckeye]

95. This fool doesn't have the sense that God gave a gopher n/t

[hue]

97. Oh FFS!! I can't stand these nutters anymore!!!

[Beartracks]

98. It burns!

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[Aviation Pro]

99. Fucking loon...

...we have our crazies on this side of the political border, but nothing to rival the fucking insanity of these fucking splooge buckets.

[luv_mykatz]

100. To those of us who have a functioning brain...

people like this guy are free entertainment.

Like someone said, you can't make this stuff up, and the material just writes itself.

They are our higher power's gift to the comedians.

Now if we could just figure out a good antidote for the kool-aid this man is selling....

[20score]

102. Then wouldn't that hold true for wind, sun...

brains?

[quakerboy]

104. I also prefer to take my gifts and burn them in front of the giver

Much better than just saying you don't like a present, you take it and burn it down. Sends a much more clear message. Bet you never get that gift again!

[jtuck004]

105. He reminds me of my dog. I go get him a really nice squeaky toy

as a gift, he rips it to shreds until he gets the squeaker out. At this point I have to take it away (choking hazard) and the whole game is over.

Instead of being content with the gift I gave him, he spoils it. Every time. He has great fun, but in the end he always loses.

arf.

[CanonRay]

106. Please tell me this is from The Onion

I'm waiting...the Onion, right. Please. Oh my.

[SoapBox]

107. No wonder these freaks support the Boy Scouts, the Catholic Molesters

and the like.

Freaks.

[LeftishBrit]

108. That makes God sound like an insecure adolescent

You'd think that an all-powerful God would not be so susceptible to petty personal slights.

Besides: why be so selective? If it's 'rude' to God not to use the oil He has provided, why is it not rude to restrain your sex urges which He has by the same token provided; or to avoid using alcohol or marijuana?

[tclambert]

109. A god with terrible self-esteem issues.

Powerful, sure, but needs people to worship him, praise him, pray to him to fix the things he got wrong, and really, really sensitive to what puny, stupid ape people think of him and the world he runs? What a wuss. My God could kick his ass.

[Crunchy Frog]

110. And to think that my parents got offended when

I chopped up their expensive antique furniture to burn in the fireplace. I thought it was a gift and I was supposed to use it.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

114. The Great Turtle has a thick skin

and smiles peacefully at all our foibles.

[ehrnst]

115. God buried fossil fuels as a gift? But I thought Satan buried dinosaur bones as a trick.(nt)