So it looks as if Donald Trump may pull the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement today. In this context there was a fascinating interview with an American coal mine owner yesterday evening on the German news.

He said, “I am pleased that I can open my coal mines again. There are lots of good Christians around here and they deserve a good job.”

Let’s analyse the implications of this short statement:

1. Christians deserve good jobs, ergo  non-Christians do not deserve good jobs.
2. There are good Christians in the world and bad Christians in the world  (totally contradicting Christian theology, by the way) and good Christians have more right to a good job than bad Christians.
3. It is perfectly legitimate to contribute actively to the creation of the world’s greatest weapon of mass destruction (i.e. a climate that kills millions of people per year)  provided that you are a Christian earning a good wage.

On a micro level, this statement is already pernicious enough. On a macro level, it is catastrophic.

Why is it that Christians have so little regard for our precious and beautiful environment?

There are two main reasons for this. First, they believe that global warming and even so-called natural disasters, such as earthquakes and tsunamis, are a consequence of human sin and entered history with the Fall of Man (Genesis 3). Therefore, they are only indirectly a consequence of modern human action and there is nothing that can be done now to change that.

Secondly, they believe firmly that God is going to create a new earth (Revelation 21) when Jesus comes again. Naturally this leads to a careless attitude when it comes to the environment because it is all going to be renewed by Almighty God anyway. Of course, this new earth will only be enjoyed by Christians while all Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and non-believers will be burning in eternal hell.

Somewhere along the way, I suspect that these attitudes influence the mindset of Donald Trump who has stated that there is no link between human action and global warming.

So, if Donald Trump goes ahead with his plans to pull the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement later today, the American people will have legitimised and become responsible for a veiled global war on a scale that puts every other war into the shade. This egotistical and religious jingoism will absolutely and unavoidably result in the unnecessary suffering and deaths of more children, women and men than the Holocaust and Donald Trump will deservedly go down in history with a similar reputation to that of Adolf Hitler.