Many people might label as hypocrites Christians who do not live up to their own ideals. Recently many might compare John Kerry unflatteringly with the high standard Greta Thunberg has set. So let us consider why you may not wish to be a Christian climate change warrior and fail on two fronts of hypocrisy, not just one.
Our Lord set a very high standard, but one that was the perfect antidote to Hypocrisy. His highest standard was of truth, love, grace and of forgiveness.
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? (Matthew 5:43-46)
Did you read that second part? Just as we forgive others who don't meet God's high standards, in the hope that we ourselves are not held to the highest standard and condemned before God, so God sends rain on the unjust. As we love our enemies, so God sends rain on the hypocrite.
God sends rain on the climate hypocrite who hates God, and sometimes as per the documented 'Gore effect' in the era of 'global warming' some cold, ice or snow. Consider!
Rain comes from clouds. When there are no clouds there is the sun that rises on the evil. It is simple observation that the presence or absence of sun or clouds determines the temperature of the day and thus both are climate.Rain is climate.
Headlined in World Israel News is a rather detailed critisim of a famous climate hypocrite that caught my eye: Kerry emitted 302 tons of CO2 in quest to save the planet (from CO2). From Front Page Mag
When the Air Force Boeing 757 which ferried Kerry around the world broke down for the fourth time, the media and the foreign policy establishment treated it as some sort of accomplishment.
That might have amounted to something if (Kerry).. had done anything in that time except jet around the world to give speeches about the importance of not jetting around the world. Kerry kept racking up miles by flying to Morocco to address the 22nd UN Climate Change Conference, to Indonesia to deliver a speech denouncing unbelievers in global warming, and to Paris to warn that the earth was about to be destroyed if people didn’t stop living like him.
Kerry’s flights would have powered all the appliances in 50 American homes for a year. "It's the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle," Kerry recently retorted when a reporter asked him about flying his private jet to Iceland to receive an environmental award. Environmentalists don’t fly coach or even first class. They jet set.
But sometimes you have to destroy the environment to save the environment.
Former Secretary of State John Kerry racked up 302 tons worth of CO2 emissions just from his flight time. Americans would have to burn 100 tons of coal to match the CO2 emissions from Kerry’s jaunts to save the world from people wanting to fly on vacation or heat their homes.
Don’t just think of Kerry as a politician, but as the Exxon Valdez with a “Save the Whales” sticker on the hull. Biden’s ‘Climate Envoy’ recently argued that coal, oil, and gas workers needed to make better choices and make solar panels. In 2004, Kerry had won the endorsement of the United Mine Workers of America by promising to protect coal jobs. The UMWA didn’t even bother trying to endorse Biden.
Hillary Clinton had vowed to destroy coal and Kerry thinks coal miners ought to move to China and get jobs constructing toxic solar panels there.
But while the Democrats may be anti-coal, they’re pro-mansion and pro-private jet. After the Obama regime ended, Kerry went back to using his own private jet to flit around the world, give speeches, and accept awards. Iceland was just one stop on the Kerry world tour.
And then it was back to one of his portfolio of mansions. “Local sea levels are rising twice as fast as the global average,” Kerry claimed in 2015. Two years later, he and his wife bought a seven-bedroom waterfront house in Martha’s Vineyard. Much like jetting everywhere, that’s just the sort of island property that a man who sincerely believes that global warming is causing the oceans to rise and flood the world would buy.
It’s not easy being ‘green’. But you don’t have to be green, as Kerry told a reporter in Iceland, "if you offset your carbon, it's the only choice for somebody like me.”
Trading coal for solar raises energy prices. Attaching carbon taxes to everything will make the cost of living impossible for millions. Air travel will become a thing of the past. For most.
“What I'm doing, almost full time," Kerry whined in Iceland, "is working to win the battle on climate change, and in the end, if I offset and contribute my life to do this, I'm not going to be put on the defensive." And it’s not as if any reporter outside Iceland would dare to even try.
John Forbes Kerry is flying around the world like Superman, fueled by hot air and carbon offsets, to save the world from the rest of us who irresponsibly drive to work and run our air conditioners without caring about the environment. While John Kerry goes through enough CO2 to cover 60 Americans driving their cars for a year because he cares about the environment.
When John Kerry first got the State Department gig under Obama, he divested a number of resources including millions worth of the Sustainable Technologies Fund which the media described only as a “green energy-oriented private equity firm” while leaving out a key detail. Leaving out key details when it comes to the dealings of Democrats is the new journalism. The Sustainable Technologies Fund was co-founded by Andre Heinz: Kerry’s stepson. “The emergence of new policies and laws aimed at aligning our economic system of production with our environment’s carrying capacity,” STF’s site tells potential investors. “Understanding and predicting the desired goals of such policies is key to an optimal market strategy.”
No doubt.
The conflict of interest here didn’t go away with Kerry and his wife shedding their financial interest in Andre’s Swedish green energy fund. Much like jetting everywhere while lecturing the proles on setting their thermostat too high isn’t vaporized by carbon offsets.
“The time it takes me to get somewhere, I can't sail across the ocean. I have to fly, meet with people and get things done," Kerry argued. The rules never apply to the elites. They can’t. Not when those elites, like John Kerry, are saving us from ourselves by taking on the privileges that we are no longer allowed to exercise for ourselves in the name of the greater good of mankind.
And what sort of skeptic would begrudge the elites from jetting to save us from the jets?
Going ‘green’ is great when you’ve got private equity funds and private jets. It’s a lot less fun when you’re a British pensioner freezing to death in the winter or a French senior citizen dying of heatstroke due to the lack of air conditioning. Greenness means factory workers making $20K a year paying for the Teslas of upper class Californians. It’s oil and gas workers losing their jobs at the behest of environmental consultants pushing Chinese solar panels. frontpagemag.com
So you said, 'That's not me!' Now here it is from me. You can't, not ever, do enough to stop CO2! You have to breath in and never breath out again! In a year you produce about 250-360kgs of CO2 just from you, and if you exercise a lot you have more impact! Your essential food-waste life cycle emissions are about 2 tonnes per year, not including transport of special treats. If you care about CO2 - you are the problem! Not just Kerry! You and all those you love! If you love animals, you are even more of a problem. If you do anything at all it has an impact, yes even that mobile phone! So if you believe CO2 impacts climate just by living and doing things you would be a hypocrite.
So now you still want to 'save the planet'? Like Kerry jetting about the whole world, as a great one 'battling climate change', to save the planet, but can Kerry as an unrepentant climate hypocrite save his own soul? We don't judge, we only ask the question!
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (Matthew 16:26)
Where would salvation of the planet come from?
But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God. My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake. (Psalm 31:14-16)
Christ as king over the earth has promised to save the needy, such as those needy oppressed by Kerry's lifestyle choices for them.
He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor. (Psalm 72:4)
Can we help save the planet? Yes, indeed on a grand scale. We can save it's most precious resource! The souls that by breathing out are CO2 producers!
Let him know, that he which converted the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. (James 5:20)
Do we need to fight and "battle" like Kerry to save the warmth from the sun, the rain and the clouds?
Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine? Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge? (Job 37:14-16)
Rather than a faithless fight for the climate, we might have faith and hope in mercy for God's saving of undeserving souls and thank our Creator for the sun that rises on the evil and the rain that falls on the unjust hypocrite. The evil or unjust may well be someone whose soul we save, yea even our own soul. Consider.
Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry. He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man. The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy. (Psalm 147:7-11)
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