Because God’s Rainbow: Robert Jeffress, Texas megachurch pastor and one of Trump’s closest spiritual advisors, claims that climate change is an “imaginary crisis” because God promised “that the polar ice caps aren’t going to melt and flood the world again.”

Jeffress, appearing on Todd Starnes’ radio program earlier this week, discussed climate change activist Greta Thunberg’s appearance at the United Nations.

In that discussion Jeffress tried to use the Bible to prove that climate change is an “imaginary crisis.”

The following is a transcript of those remarks:

The only thing more fun than listening to him [Trump] is listening to the liberals whine that he had the audacity to skip the climate summit. I tell people all the time, ‘This president is brilliant.’ He decides to skip attending a session on an imaginary crisis—climate change—and instead he chooses to lead his own conference on a very real problem, global persecution. God said he created the environment to serve us, not for us to serve the environment. This Greta Thunberg, the 16 year-old, she was warning today about the mass extinction of humanity. Somebody needs to read poor Greta Genesis chapter 9 and tell her the next time she worries about global warming, just look at a rainbow; that’s God’s promise that the polar ice caps aren’t going to melt and flood the world again.

Starnes, a conservative Christian and Fox News radio host, agreed with Jeffress that climate change is imaginary, claiming that “this whole global warming, tree-hugging fiasco” is pointless because “there is nothing to it. They may as well hold a commission hearing on the Tooth Fairy or Bigfoot.”

For a conservative Christian to mock “the Tooth Fairy or Bigfoot” while believing in imaginary nonsense like the virgin birth, the resurrection, and heaven and hell, is peak irony.

As for Jeffress, last month this “good Christian man” warned Jews that they and their children would be cursed by God if they voted for Democrats.

Bottom line: Pastor Robert Jeffress claims that climate change is an “imaginary crisis” because God’s rainbow is a promise “that the polar ice caps aren’t going to melt and flood the world again.”

(H/T Right Wing Watch)