Does Evangelical Christian Chris Luxon believe in science?

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Martyn Bradbury
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Prime Minister’s chief science adviser: Uncertainty looms over future of NZ’s influential chief scientist role

  • The Government is under pressure to say whether it’s keeping the influential role of Prime Minister’s chief science adviser, which has sat unfilled since July.
  • It’s emerged a preferred candidate was to have taken up the post, before being stood down amid a Government-ordered review of the science system.
  • The Green Party and the NZ Association of Scientists says it’s “concerning” and “scary” that the role still remains vacant.

On the election campaign, Guy Williams had heard a rumour that Evangelical Christian Chris Luxon didn’t believe in dinosaurs and so kept asking him on the campaign trail if he did.

It was funny.

We’ve seen how Luxon’s Prosperity Theology makes him believe that owning 7 properties is proof positive of how special he is to Jesus and how he needs to boast about these privileges because to hide them would be ashamed of God.

This has manifested in him taking entitlements and pushing back against not receiving them alongside his “I’m rich and I’m sorted” hubris.

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To Chris, these are blessings from God and to be humble is to belittle God.

So the lack of appointing a Scientist is understandable because no one has authority over Chris other than Jesus.

We may as well start burning the libraries.

This is what we is now. This is who we have mutated into.

 

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39 COMMENTS

  1. Yip….and when people are getting their information on a daily basis from the likes of the moronic Mike Hosking and others, who strangely enough work for either, 1ZB , the self titled ‘Taxpayer’s Union’, The Atlas Group, it only serves to reinforce the stupidity that now pervades N.Z society.

    When you look at the likes and belief systems of people like Clusterfuxon, Willis , Seymour, Brooke Van Velden, Peters and Jones, it’s not hard to see that N.Z has fallen and snared itself in a crown of thorns from which the extraction will be very painful,

    These people have already graphically demonstrated, in the space of just 12months, that they are not the sharpest knives in the draw….but then again …we already knew that. To come to any other conclusion is straight out delusional.

    Their ‘group thinking’ , ego maniac naivety is there for all to see… all day… every day. There is little to no science in anything they do. It’s all about their ‘reckons’ and feels…. and financial backers.

    How ironic that the farmers, one of their biggest bunch of cheerleaders, will be the most impacted by their climate denying stupidity …and will pay dearly. A graphic example of self-mutilation if ever there was one…
    cutting of the nose to spite one’s face.

    Humans have done it since the dawn of civilization…here we go again…learnt nothing!

    N.Z. should be deeply concerned. The Coalition of Chaos is not the government of and for the people, but just a bunch of weird zealots for the deluded deniers…Amen

  3. His beliefs are immaterial. He’ll continue doing whatever suits him and his self-serving boorish mates. The only upside is the possibility of his brainier coalition colleagues reining him in.

  5. The Ten Commandments from the National party Brible

    1. Thou shall love power above all.
    2. Prejudice and hatred are way the truth and the lie
    3.War is good.
    4.Take from the poor and give to the rich.
    5. Heaven is for those who invade conquer and steal.
    6.The Angels rejoice when Maori and Asians are destroyed.
    7.Gays are all evil and must be burn in Hell.
    8.Feminists must be beaten to a pulp with a pillar of salt.
    9.Greens prevent us mining so they all must be eliminated.
    10. Have a happy day and praise Gold.

  6. A couple of weeks ago I asked a aluminum hatter why they drove a car fueled by petrol the other day if they believed science was wrong.
    They couldn’t see the connection between science and progress.
    I don’t imagine Luxon and his team of antifactuals are any different.
    They will use science if they see a personal benefit and it makes money but not if it opposes their ideology.

  7. Now see here!
    I know God personally( went to school with him ectually) and when I asked him what he thought of Christopher Luxon, God said’ never heard of the feller. Did he go to Christ’s College?’

  8. Luxon maybe doesn’t like the idea that he needs an “advisor”. He ran an airline and knows “numbers and economics” and stuff like that. (Though he probably just uncritically swallowed the over-simplifications and errors of undergraduate neoclassical economics 30-odd years ago.)
    Second, Luxon is not a Christian. He’s an evangelical which is a heretical off-shoot that has abused the Protestant doctrine of Sola Scriptura to cynically create a pile of self-serving trash that some people call “prosperity gospel”.
    In short, Luxon is an incoherent mess.

  9. The proper question is never do they “believe” in science or climate change etc, but whether they understand it. Understanding the processes involved in either leads to respecting science as the most powerful method of examining and interpreting reality known to mankind.
    Luxon clearly doesn’t respect it.

    • The proper question is never do they “believe” in science or climate change etc, but whether they understand it.
      This reminds me of a withering quote from film A Fish Called Wanda.
      Wanda: But you think you’re an intellectual, don’t you, ape?
      Otto: Apes don’t read philosophy.
      Wanda: Yes they do, Otto, they just don’t understand it!

      (Bonus Wanda wisdoms: http://www.imdb.com
      Wanda: Aristotle was not Belgian, the principle of Buddhism is not every man for himself, and the London Underground is not a political movement.)

      A soupcon updating modern religion – fashioned to fit your lifestyle. Naturally the foremost learning is from Harvard University. (As Tom Lehrer would say ‘These are the… ones of which the news has come to Harvard There may be many others but they haven’t been discovered,)
      The Prosperity Gospel (PG) is a fast-growing theologically conservative movement frequently associated with Pentecostalism, evangelicalism, and charismatic Christianity that emphasizes believers’ abilities to transcend poverty and/or illness through devotion and positive confession.
      Prosperity Gospel, The – Religion and Public Life at Harvard Divinity School
      https://rpl.hds.harvard.edu › faq › prosperity-gospel

  12. The role had become less than convincing with the scientific advisers wheeled out to give opinions on too many areas. Good riddance.

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