Oil for stupidity.

If you ever read this site you probably know I have a lot of problems with hypocrisy and stupidity. The greatest examples of these problems tend to come from the governmental and religious sectors of our planet. So many things about those areas irk me. Things like electing public officials because of their strong religious leanings, even though we are supposed to separate church and state in this country. Having pious people, who believe that scientific advancement is a tool of the devil, in charge of our military arsenal. What has recently began to chap my cheeks recently is this. A majority of our elected officials in D.C. are members of the United Methodist Church. Many of these same people are investors in large oil and power concerns. United Methodists are, for the most part, Short Earthers, who tend to not believe in dinosaurs or a billion year old planet. Now, this is a wishy washy argument but some believe that dinosaur bones are a trick from the devil to test man kinds faith, others believe they are there as a trick from God to test man kinds faith, either way it's a dick move on both parts. But do you see the problem here? Oil comes from millions of years of decomposition of organic material. Several of the coal and oil men have made billions from this organic material. That's right, billions of dollars off of a geological event that they don't even believe occurred. Damn that pisses me off. Using the devils/ Gods test to make billions, isn't that some kind of sin. I am no bible scholar but I would expect that to not sit right on some side of the heaven vs. Hell hierarchy. Do you think they even thought this through? "Hey Bobby Jean, the Earth is spewing forth some useful, yet sinful dark liquid. Shall I seek the path of righteousness and cover the sin hole? Ah screw it let's get rich for a while and see if we can buy our way into Heaven." That is what I figure was the first pious Pete conversation about oil. Conveniently, for old Pete, in most major religions, you can now tithe, IE., buy your way into Heaven. So I guess that worked out for some of them. The rich ones. If you own an oil company you can sin way more than if you just work in a rig, then you can only afford to be a little sinny. Okay, this is a rant but I think you get the idea. If you do not believe that the Earth is absolutely ancient but you use any oil based product, you are using something that, in your mind, does not exist. If this is a religious belief, then, on some level, you are a sinner and a hypocrite. Sinners I am used to and friends with, hypocrites are another story and I hate them and do not care if they are ground into organic matter, left to rot for a million years and used to heat my house, screw 'em.

In my research fo rthis rant, I found this quote from a Pastor Bob Weeks, of the New Creation United Methodist Church. He was asked:" Why can't we, as Christians believe in Dinosaurs?

His answer: " About dinosaurs. Many Christians DO believe dinosaurs once inhabited the earth. I personally believe that science has done more to make my faith stronger, especially as we look out into an incredible, complex universe that gives evidence of a master designer. I believe it takes more faith to not believe in God when we see the amazing creation around us"

Pretty week answer there Weeks. In fact, that is down right crap and has nothing to do with dinosaurs or anything really.

This is why I avoid the South.