The Unholy Truth

The Unholy Truth

God, Oil, and the Great American Climate Lie

Where faith, politics, and profit unite to call pollution a blessing and science a sin.

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Tanner A.
Nov 03, 2025
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A preacher holding a Bible and cross in front of oil refineries and smokestacks under a polluted orange sky, symbolizing Christian climate denial and the worship of fossil fuels.

Climate change is real. The science is beyond dispute. Over 99 percent of climate scientists worldwide agree that humans are heating the planet, mostly through burning fossil fuels. You don’t need faith for this—just a thermometer. Carbon dioxide levels are the highest they’ve been in 800,000 years. Glaciers are melting, oceans are rising, and heat waves now break records like they’re trying to win an award.

Yet somehow, one group keeps shouting that it’s all fake news: fundamentalist Christians, mostly in the United States, who think climate science is a left-wing conspiracy sent by Satan to ruin their gas-guzzling freedom.

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