Another Archbishop, another fool

What is it with these Archbishops anyway? Do churches run on the Peter Principle?

President Obama got a little unexpected flattery from Archbishop Demetrios, the head of the Greek Orthodox Church in the United States.

Listing a series of challenges Obama will need to deal with as president, Demetrios predicted: Demetrios to Obama: "Following the brilliant example of Alexander the Great...you will be able to cut the Gordian knot of these unresolved issues."

Alexander the Great? Really?

Another looney at the top

With great power comes great responsibility, the saying goes. However, it is becoming more and more apparent that those in positions of power, particularly in politics and religion need not necessarily be very intelligent.

A headline in the Daily Mail Online:

God won't protect humanity from environmental 'doomsday', warns Archbishop

This was in reference to the Archbishop of Canterbury speaking specifically about Climate Change. From what I can gather, he is saying that God wants us to pull ourselves back from the brink of Global Warming disasters for the sake of the poorest among us (Bangladesh and the island nation of Tuvalu in the Pacific Ocean are mentioned).

denying the reality of global warming was 'precisely the opposite of reasonable' in the face of rising sea levels and the need to understand how this was affected by rising temperatures.

Setting out the Christian argument for preserving the environment, Dr Williams attacked an 'unintelligent' and 'ungodly' view of the natural world.

He said intelligent life was not the 'triumphant imposition' of human will upon a 'defeated natural order,' but the 'reasoned discovery' of how we live in such a way as not to destroy a balance in the natural order.

Perhaps there's a teensy, tiny touch of hubris here in that the Archbishop's seems to believe that we mortal beings could muck up God's magnificent creation and that He needs our services to put it back together.

I like the comment at the above link:

Recently the Vicar looked over my garden wall and said "! isn't it amazing what we can do with a little help from God " I replied " you should have seen it when he had it all to himself" This Arch is a NUTTER.

- I P Standin, Canterbury England, 26/3/2009 11:18

He’s become an object of pity

WTF?
Al Gore Calls Myanmar Cyclone a 'Consequence' of Global Warming

I certainly hope that at least one room of Mr. Gore’s huge estate has padded walls and floors. It sounds like he may need to use it.

I see this as desperation.

Endangered? How about existent?

We are coming up on the end of May, right? I thought so. But how to explain this story that sounds like an April Fools’ Day gag?

Endangered Species Protection Sought for Bigfoot

Don’t you need proof that the damn thing exists in the first place before you can go about “protecting” it?

The man behind the petition was a Bigfoot enthusiast named Todd Standing, who claims to have definitive proof of Bigfoot but is withholding it until protection for the alleged animals is in place. “When I get species protection for them nationwide, I will make my findings public and I will take this out of the realm of mythology. Bigfoot is real,” Standing said.

Apparently, the Canadian dollar isn’t the only thing Looney north of the border.

But as Benjamin Radford says:

Protecting endangered species is important for biodiversity, but protecting animals that may not even exist is putting the cart before the unicorn. No one has ever injured or killed a creature not known to exist; Bigfoot and lake monsters are no more in need of legal protection than are leprechauns or dragons. If the creatures are eventually discovered, scientists will do all they can to preserve and study the species. Until then, surely lawmakers have more important things to worry about.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

O'Donnell Will Not Be Back on 'The View'

Typical of most bullies, when you stand up to them they just fade away. Of course, that’s not the way O’Donnell phrased it:

And on her Web site Thursday, O'Donnell wrote: "When painting there is a point u must step away from the canvas as the work is done."

Rosie, this wasn’t a commissioned painting job. You had a contract for APPEARANCES. Sure hope ABC isn’t paying her for these last few weeks.

First she took the day off when The View was to discuss the Truthers' claims on 9/11 saying it was her partner, Heidi's birthday, and then she just walks off for good three weeks shy of the date she had announced would be her last. My guess is she got her little feelings hurt when Elisabeth Hasselbeck had the nerve to stand up to her ridiculous, incoherent ranting.

Gaia has a virus. Us.

One environmentalist is now comparing man to a virus.

Apparently, saving the whales is more important than saving 5.5 billion people. Paul Watson, founder and president of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and famous for militant intervention to stop whalers, now warns mankind is “acting like a virus” and is harming Mother Earth.

This guy would like to see the world population shrink to around 1 billion people. I wonder how he would choose to reach that number? Especially since he sees it a necessary to reach that value (one-fifth the current population) almost, well, yesterday.

Watson’s full editorial can be found and read here.