Poor Nance. She’s getting taken to task over her Earth Day biblical quotation.

The Bible tells us in the Old Testament, “To minister to the needs of God’s creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.” On this Earth Day, and every day, let us honor the earth and our future generations with a commitment to fight climate change.

The problem, of course, is that those who are searching for the quote are looking in the Christian Bible. The actual source is Goracle Bibliotecha.

Claptrap 3:4 “To minister to the needs of God’s creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.”

But don’t ignore the context.

Claptrap 3:5, 6 So smite the denier and shun the unbeliever. Ignore the ignorant opposition and worship the Goracle from whom all wisdom flows.

See. It was just a misunderstanding.

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Acolytes of the church of the Goracle are going to go nuts.

A chunk of Antarctic ice nine times the size of Manhattan has suddenly collapsed, putting an even larger glacial area at risk.

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British scientist David Vaughan says it’s the result of global warming.

The entire article is very short, and Vaughan is the only one quoted.

What I found interesting was the last line.

The rest of the Connecticut-sized ice shelf is holding on by a narrow beam of thin ice and scientists worry that it too may collapse. Larger, more dramatic ice collapses occurred in 2002 and 1995.

And at how many times in the past?

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I love reading quotes that say something very accurate, even when it is 180 degrees away from what the speaker intended to say. Today’s contributor, The Goracle:

“We live in a world where what used to be called propaganda now has a major role to play in shaping public opinion.”

“They’re trying to manipulate opinion and they are taking us for fools.”

Heh.

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