FORD EXEC: JUNK BOND STATUS TODAY, RAPTURE TOMORROW

Whoa...! It gets worse and worse, doesn't it? I think the idea of de-evolution holds more sway now than it did when Devo were preaching it.--Pete

From The Progressive Review Undernews

http://www.emagazine.com/view/?757

GLENN SCHERER, E-MAGAZINE - [Beyond the right's] more obvious
anti-environmental motivations there lies a more deep-seated
inspiration. Difficult as it may be to believe, many of the
conservatives who have great influence in the Bush administration and now in Congress are governed by a Higher Power.

In his book The Carbon Wars, Greenpeace activist Jeremy Leggett tells how he stumbled upon this otherworldly agenda. During the Kyoto climate change negotiations, Leggett candidly asked Ford Motor Company executive John Schiller how opponents of the pact could believe there is no problem with "a world of a billion cars intent on burning all the oil and gas available on the planet?" The executive asserted first that scientists get it wrong when they say fossil fuels have been sequestered underground for eons. The Earth, he said, is just 10,000, not 4.5 billion years old, the age widely accepted by scientists.

Then Schiller confidently declared, "You know, the more I look, the more it is just as it says in the Bible." The Book of Daniel, he told
Leggett, predicts that increased earthly devastation will mark the "End Time" and return of Christ. Paradoxically, Leggett notes, many
fundamentalists see dying coral reefs, melting ice caps and other
environmental destruction not as an urgent call to action, but as God's will. Within the religious right worldview, the wreck of the Earth can be seen as Good News!

Some true believers, interpreting biblical prophecy, are sure they will be saved from the horrific destruction brought by ecosystem collapse. They'll be raptured: rescued from Earth by God, who will then rain down seven ghastly years of misery on unbelieving humanity. Jesus' return will mark the Millennium, when the Lord restores the Earth to its green pristine condition, and the faithful enjoy a thousand years of peace and prosperity.