Reverend Friedman’s Altar Call
Like an economics professor from a bible college, Tom Friedman called us to the altar today in the Sunday Times with an article entitled “This Time is Different.”
He establishes his theme by referencing a letter to the editor written by a friend who takes the hit for BP’s oil spill and declares that he has been born again in a sustainable skin. He’s going to bike to work. To the Pentagon! Hallelujah! Praise God and pass the tofu. Moral lesson revealed, Rev. Friedman launches into a sermon right out of the Big Oil Bible and condemns us for Deepwater Horizon and its victims because we “sent BP out in the gulf to get us as much oil as possible at the cheapest price.” Then he beseeches us to “look honestly at our own roles in creating our own problems” and “solve the big problems in our control.” What a bunch of crap.
Twitter to Reverend Tom: Shill for BP in private. I’m not in your congregation. On top of the guilt that you want me to feel for global warming, for genocide in Darfur, and for still believing that the world is round, you want me to flay myself for peak oil. No thanks, Tom. I’ll pay for my own sins—not for yours. I’d rather drive an SUV. For the Antichrist.
