{"id":45676,"date":"2014-10-06T16:42:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T22:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/06\/is-there-a-literally-god-given-right-to-pollute.html"},"modified":"2014-10-13T13:46:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T19:46:55","slug":"is-there-a-literally-god-given-right-to-pollute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/06\/is-there-a-literally-god-given-right-to-pollute.html","title":{"rendered":"Is there a literally God-given right to pollute?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assuming the folk in question are sincere in their theology-based energy policy, maybe someone needs to frame this to them as a <i>test<\/i> from the Lord. <i>&quot;Would you say that folk near Las Vegas should all be going in and gambling because the Lord gave them all those casinos? Or that they have a special challenge to find favor in His sight by resisting such temptation to follow the path of sin and greed?&quot;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/07\/29\/alabama_state_officials_we_wont_comply_with_the_epa_because_god_gave_us_coal'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/XsxvD8wfDEtvSMaKccUUD4VOQQfwGz8j2ZF94jusqWb5eQJrb-icgsgqMBVZitwioIeu0sfhLeKR8Bn4kEGHasnGLytNqeipCXRUlQ=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/07\/29\/alabama_state_officials_we_wont_comply_with_the_epa_because_god_gave_us_coal'>Alabama state officials: We won&rsquo;t comply with the EPA because God gave us coal<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nAlabama state officials say that EPA carbon standards violate God&#8217;s law. Seriously.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/F8JYPo2Q4Xy'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assuming the folk in question are sincere in their theology-based energy policy, maybe someone needs to frame this to them as a test from the Lord. &quot;Would you say that folk near Las Vegas should all be going in and gambling because the Lord gave them all those casinos? Or that they have a special &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/06\/is-there-a-literally-god-given-right-to-pollute.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is there a literally God-given right to pollute?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,63,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-environment","category-religious-zanies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130655,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/14\/force-ranking-the-mcu-heroes.html","url_meta":{"origin":45676,"position":0},"title":"Force-Ranking the MCU Heroes","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 14-May-16 12:43am","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's an attempt by \/Film to force-rank the heroes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe [(which apparently excludes Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, though not the Netflix series or Agent Carter). 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