{"id":598,"date":"2010-12-20T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2010\/12\/here-be-green-dragons.html"},"modified":"2010-12-20T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T19:47:00","slug":"here-be-green-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2010\/12\/here-be-green-dragons.html","title":{"rendered":"Here Be (Green) Dragons!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Holy Green Terror!\u00a0 Christian fanatics have found themselves a new threat in the world.\u00a0 It\u2019s environmentalism and it\u2019s the work of the devil!\u00a0 Or so claims a new DVD produced by something called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornwallalliance.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Cornwall Alliance<\/a>, who believe stuff like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We believe Earth and its ecosystems\u2014created by God\u2019s intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence \u2014are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting, admirably suited for human flourishing, and displaying His glory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They also have a list called \u201cWhat We Deny:\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We deny that alternative, renewable fuels can, with present or near-term technology, replace fossil and nuclear fuels, either wholly or in significant part, to provide the abundant, affordable energy necessary to sustain prosperous economies or overcome poverty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Really?\u00a0 Fossil fuels?\u00a0 You really want to go with the word \u201cfossil\u201d there?\u00a0 Hmmmm\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>I like that they have a list of things that they deny. I personally deny that they have two brain cells to rub together.<\/p>\n<p>Their DVD is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.resistingthegreendragon.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>Resisting the Green Dragon<\/i><\/a> because that\u2019s their demon-y name for the environmental movement.\u00a0 Below is a trailer from their website.\u00a0 You can also sign up for a free full twelve minute preview.\u00a0 Yesterday I threw away over two and a half hours of my life watching <i>Tron: Legacy<\/i>.\u00a0 I\u2019m not giving up another twelve minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/15874797\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Resisting the Green Dragon full promo<\/a> from:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Resisting the Green Dragon full promo\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vAA2sLtzXJM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Green Terror!\u00a0 Christian fanatics have found themselves a new threat in the world.\u00a0 It\u2019s environmentalism and it\u2019s the work of the devil!\u00a0 Or so claims a new DVD produced by something called The Cornwall Alliance, who believe stuff like this: We believe Earth and its ecosystems\u2014created by God\u2019s intelligent design and infinite power and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,38],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogentries","tag-fundamentalist-christianity","tag-science-and-reason"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Here Be (Green) Dragons!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Holy Green Terror!\u00a0 Christian fanatics have found themselves a new threat in the world.\u00a0 It\u2019s environmentalism and it\u2019s the work of the devil!\u00a0 Or so\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2010\/12\/here-be-green-dragons.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Here Be (Green) Dragons!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Holy Green Terror!\u00a0 Christian fanatics have found themselves a new threat in the world.\u00a0 It\u2019s environmentalism and it\u2019s the work of the devil!\u00a0 Or so\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2010\/12\/here-be-green-dragons.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Atheist Rabbi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-12-20T19:47:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jeffrey L. 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